Abstract and Introduction Rationale for i.v. Antihypertensive Selection Clinical Pharmacology of i.v. Antihypertensives References There are potential concerns with the use of sodium nitroprusside ...

Despite advances in therapy, congestive heart failure is a major public health problem with a high mortality and morbidity. The benefits of beta blockers in slowing disease progression and ...

Investigators from 23 centers in the United States enrolled 559 patients between May, 1997 and September, 1998. Of the patients enrolled, 440 completed the placebo run-in phase and were randomized ...

Alendronate has been shown to increase bone mineral density (BMD) and decrease fracture risk in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis, but the need for long-term treatment is unclear, especially ...

The number of patients carrying ICDs is ever increasing, so these devices are present in numerous medical circumstances and have to be evaluated by physicians who do not have expert knowledge of ...

A diet low in fat and fiber, taken in small, frequent meals, has been advocated, although different diets have not been rigorously compared in patients with gastroparesis. Nutrient liquids might ...

The use of combination or combined vaccines is an effective strategy to improve compliance and coverage in immunization schedules. However, it is reliant on the demonstration that coadministration ...

The methods used in the present study for the projections of mortality and burden of disease are similar to those used in the original GBD study. [2] Separate projections models for males and ...

Relatively weak magnets in consumer products have always posed some risk, usually very low, to the function of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). However, stronger ...

Expert Rev Neurother. 2010;10(3):365-375. A number of oral therapies are in a late stage of development for MS (Table 2). In addition to cladribine tablets, for which key data are reviewed below ...

Rigid gas permeable lenses are usually the lenses of choice after RK. They provide good visual acuity and tear exchange, they move well upon the cornea, and they allow high oxygen transmissibility ...

There is some evidence that monoamine oxidase (MAO) levels increase with age. The effect of this phenomenon is to metabolize amine neurotransmitters at a faster rate, resulting in a state of ...