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Vitamin D Status After Renal Transplantation
Is vitamin D supplementation helpful in reversing posttransplant hyperparathyroidism and in preventing or reversing posttransplant osteopenia?
Medscape Nephrology, February 2008
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What Is the Best Way to Treat and Rehabilitate a Ruptured Achilles Tendon?
What is the best way to treat and rehabilitate a ruptured Achilles tendon?
The Medscape Journal of Medicine, February 2008
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Donor Biopsy and Kidney Transplant Outcomes: An Analysis Using the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/UNOS Database
When biopsy findings are unexpected or incongruent with the clinical picture, it may be difficult to reconcile the factors most important in determining kidney utilization.
Medscape Transplantation, February 2008
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How Can I Recognize an Adverse Drug Event?
The first step is key: considering the possibility that a drug is the cause of a new medical problem.
Medscape Pharmacists, February 2008
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The Need for a US Health Television Network
Lawrence Grouse, MD, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, proposes a new health and medicine TV network.
The Medscape Journal of Medicine, February 2008
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Survival on Dialysis Post Kidney Transplant Failure: Results From the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients
The current study underscores the importance of managing graft failure, which could be avoided with preemptive retransplantation.
Medscape Transplantation, January 2008
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MRSA -- A Clinical Perspective: An Expert Interview With Andrew F. Shorr, MD, MPH, FCCP
Across the country, the news media has highlighted the growing incidence of CA MRSA. Dr. Andrew Shorr discusses the current data on MRSA and MSSA.
Medscape Pulmonary Medicine, January 2008
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Healthcare Worker Influenza Immunization
Despite local and national efforts to encourage influenza vaccination, the overall vaccination rate among US healthcare workers remains unacceptably low. What can be done to improve rates?
Medscape Infectious Diseases, December 2007
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Individualized Mycophenolate Mofetil Dosing Based On Drug Exposure Significantly Improves Patient Outcomes After Renal Transplantation
If we are to believe the conclusions from this study, it is time to abandon fixed-dose MMF and utilize therapeutic drug monitoring to ensure optimal dosing.
Medscape Transplantation, November 2007
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Dissociation of Depletional Induction and Posttransplantation Lymphoproliferative Disease in Kidney Recipients Treated With Alemtuzumab
What accounts for the unexpected finding that alemtuzumab is not associated with an increased risk for PTLD, in spite of its mechanism of action?
Medscape Transplantation, November 2007
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Nephrectomy After Transplant Failure: Current Practice and Outcomes
The role of transplant nephrectomy in the management of kidney transplant recipients with allograft failure remains controversial. Dr. Robert Stratta discusses both sides of the issue.
Medscape Transplantation, November 2007
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Eczematoid Graft-vs-Host Disease
A well-reported case series documents a distinct subtype of chronic GVHD.
Medscape Dermatology, October 2007
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"A Big Jump": Mario Capecchi's Journey From Italian Street Kid to Nobel Laureate
Mario Capecchi's groundbreaking research in gene targeting makes it possible to "knock out" specific genes in mice, which reveals the gene's function and its role in disease.
Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, October 2007
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The Progressive Nature of Cirrhosis: Implications for an Aging Hepatitis C-Infected Population
Nizar N. Zein, MD, discusses the link between chronic HCV infection and histologic cirrhosis, with a view toward the variation in the outcome of chronically infected patients.
October 2007
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Is Oral Valganciclovir Comparable to Intravenous Ganciclovir for the Treatment of Cytomegalovirus Disease in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients?
Read this commentary to find out whether oral valganciclovir can achieve outcomes comparable to those in patients with CMV disease treated with IV ganciclovir.
Medscape Transplantation, October 2007
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Advances in Hepatitis -- From ICAAC 2007: An Expert Interview With Dr. Vincent Soriano
ICAAC '07: Dr. Vincent Soriano discusses recent advances in hepatitis, including the use of the new PI telaprevir and the impact of resistance mutations on antigenicity and vaccine protection.
Medscape HIV/AIDS, September 2007
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The Vagaries of the Parathyroid Hormone Assay
Accurate measurement of PTH is essential in the diagnosis and management of mineral ion and skeletal disorders, and standardization of PTH assays is needed.
Medscape Nephrology, September 2007
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Anemia Treatment Recommendations and Quality of Life in Renal Transplant Recipients
The evidence for a survival benefit of treatment of anemia in renal transplant recipients is at this time equivocal.
Medscape Nephrology, September 2007
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Pulmonary Artery Catheter in the United States, 1993-2004
Unpublished corporate data suggested that PAC use declined after the publication of a seminal study suggesting no benefit from use of the PAC in critically ill patients in general.
Medscape Critical Care, September 2007
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Getting Control of Health Costs -- For Real
Governor Michael Dukakis tells us how to control healthcare costs.
Medscape General Medicine, September 2007
