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Clinical Conundrum: Should We Always Treat Fever in Patients with Sepsis?

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Clinical Scenario: A 45-year-old woman presents with cough and shortness of breath. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2012; 185(10): 1088-1095. PMID: 28141683 The post Clinical Conundrum: Should We Always Treat Fever in Patients with Sepsis? Only treat fever if it causes the patient distress. Vitals are BP 114/42, HR 138, T 102.1,

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Auburn installs Siemens Magnetom 7T MRI scanner

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The scanner features dedicated radiofrequency sodium imaging coils and parallel transmit technology and will be used for brain and knee imaging, with a clinical focus on better understanding epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and other disorders. Auburn University has installed Siemens ' Magnetom 7T MRI scanner in its College of Engineering.

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PET/CT predicts adverse cardiac events in men with prostate cancer

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PET/CT scans used to visualize findings in men with recurrent prostate cancer may also help assess their risk for cardiovascular disease, according to a study published January 22 in Clinical Genitourinary Cancer. However, whether these findings have predictive value in men with prostate cancer is unknown, they added.

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DCE-MRI determines women at high recurrence risk of breast cancer

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This finding has particular clinical value considering that the Oncotype DX recurrence score is expensive and unavailable in many low-resource health care settings,” Arefan and colleagues wrote. The team included data collected between 2007 and 2012 from 187 women with breast cancer. at a minimum 10 years of follow-up.

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Tributes pour in for CT pioneer Willi Kalender

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He is the father of contemporary CT imaging -- and thus of clinical radiology as we know it today," Christiane Kuhl, MD, PhD, told AuntMinnie.com on November 4. Willi was the one to invent helical CT, the type of CT which is used today for all whole-body applications of clinical radiology," she said. Willi Kalender, PhD.

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REBEL Core Cast 108.0 – Angioedema

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Both conditions can range in severity from benign to life threatening (Wilkerson 2012). 2012; 14(11). An overview of angioedema: Clinical features, diagnosis, and management. Clinical practice. Without the C1 inhibitor, the plasma-kallikrein-kinin system produces more bradykinin. Emergency Medicine Practice. Zuraw et al.

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Evidence grows for use of amyloid PET in China

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In patients treated at a memory clinic at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai, amyloid PET scans detected brain pathology associated with the disease and led to changes in treatment plans in 36.5% The clinical utility of amyloid PET scans has been systematically studied in many other countries. The full study is available here.

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