Latest - Pathology & Lab Medicine

• AAO-HNSF 2023 Measures of PTH Predict Post-Thyroidectomy Hypocalcemia Data from a prospective study support the use of parathyroid hormone (PTH) to guide earlier discharge of patients after surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, October 01, 2023
• Shortages, Cost, and Frustration: Quest for the New COVID Shot As the rollout of the newly formulated shot begins in earnest, many Americans are finding roadblocks.
  WebMD Health News, September 29, 2023
• ATA 2023 Triple Therapy Boosts Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer Survival With the neoadjuvant regimen of pembrolizumab added to dabrafenib and trametinib, survival in BRAF-mutated forms of the highly aggressive cancer can go from months to more than 5 years.
  Medscape Medical News, September 29, 2023
• COVID-19 Virus Infects Coronary Vasculature Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is found in coronary arteries of patients who died of COVID-19.
  Medscape Medical News, September 29, 2023
• Cutaneous Metastasis As a First Presentation of Lung Carcinoma This case highlights the need to be aware of the possibility of cutaneous nodules as a first symptom of lung cancer.
  Journal of Medical Case Reports, September 29, 2023
• Histopathology of Cold Agglutinin Disease Review the characteristics of cold agglutinin disease, a type of autoimmune hemolytic anemia characterized in recent years as a distinct B-cell lymphoproliferative disease.
  American Journal of Clinical Pathology, September 29, 2023
• False Positive Pap Smear May Indicate Genitourinary Syndrome Testing positive for cervical dysplasia may be an early indicator of vaginal atrophy and can be effectively treated with local estrogen.
  Medscape Medical News, September 28, 2023
• Stroke, High BP Don't Mediate Pollution's Link to Dementia Hypertension and stroke do not mediate or modify associations of fine particulate matter air pollution with dementia, a new study suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, September 28, 2023
• Factor XI Inhibitors: Promise of a Safe Anticoagulant? The quest for an anticoagulant that can prevent cardiovascular events without bleeding is something of a holy grail in cardiovascular medicine. Could factor XI inhibitors be the long-sought answer?
  Medscape Medical News, September 28, 2023
• The Differential Diagnosis You're Missing I often get requests for a second or third opinion, with hope that somehow, I'll discover a diagnosis that others missed. Sometimes, there's real diagnostic dilemmas; oftentimes, they're just itchy.
  MDedge, September 28, 2023
• What Potential Does AI Offer for Endocrinology? With its vast complexities, endocrinology could notably benefit from AI -- once wrinkles are ironed out.
  Medscape Medical News, September 28, 2023
• Resistant Hypertension: What Not to Reach For   An expert shares what's best to try fourth-line for resistant hypertension, as well as what to avoid.
  The Curbsiders, September 28, 2023
• Episode 5: Monitoring and Diagnostics in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia   Drs Michael J. Mauro and Jerald P. Radich discuss monitoring and diagnostics in chronic myeloid leukemia, including the Philadelphia chromosome and how it plays into the current treatment of CML.
  Medscape, September 28, 2023
• How Baseball Led Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to His AFib Diagnosis It wasn’t like one of basketball’s greatest to feel lightheaded, tired, and short of breath. But did he brush off these serious cardiovascular symptoms?
  WebMD, September 28, 2023
• Mold Infections After Organ Transplant From Drowned Donors The transplantation of organs from drowned organ donors could cause fatal invasive mold infections in transplant recipients. Clinicians should consider the potential risk.
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, September 28, 2023
• Clinicomicrobiological Profile of Podiatric Infections Insight into the clinicomicrobiological profile of podiatric infections could help guide treatment decisions.
  Wounds, September 28, 2023
• Are Cellular Therapies the Future of Autoimmune Disease? Promising results from small case studies and early clinical trials hint at the potential of CAR-T cell therapy to treat -- and possibly cure -- autoimmune diseases like lupus.
  Medscape Medical News, September 27, 2023
• Cardiac Troponin Predicts Mortality Post Surgery New evidence points to the prognostic value of cardiac troponin T in identifying myocardial injury and subsequent mortality risk after cardiac surgery.
  Medscape Medical News, September 27, 2023
• New Data Lowers Estimate of Long COVID's Impact: CDC An estimated 18 million adults in the US have had long COVID, and half of them are still dealing with the condition, new national survey data shows.
  WebMD Health News, September 26, 2023
• Prostate Cancer Screening Guidelines: To PSA or Not to PSA As primary care physicians, a large part of our role is to prevent or detect cancers early. Patients look to us for this guidance.
  MDedge, September 26, 2023
• Gaps in Breast Cancer Receptor Testing for Certain Groups A review of over 300,000 patients with invasive breast cancer found that breast cancer receptor status testing was less likely to occur in elderly, rural, and Black women.
  Medscape Medical News, August 28, 2023
• Artificial Intelligence Gives Paralyzed Woman Voice Back A brain-computer interface translates neural signals of a woman who is unable to speak, not only into text on a screen but into audible speech using a digital avatar.
  Medscape Medical News, August 23, 2023
• As MOC Debate Heats Up, Cardiology Societies Weigh In The MOC process is once again under attack by cardiologists and other specialty physicians. A petition aiming to end the requirements has garnered more than 17,000 and counting signatures.
  Medscape Medical News, August 22, 2023
• Robotic Patients? They're Useful but Have Limitations Increasingly sophisticated robots mimic various conditions and enable medical students to apply the tools of clinical practice. Nevertheless, their cost has been a subject of criticism.
  Medscape Medical News, August 22, 2023
• New Practice Guidelines on Postdural Puncture Headache The guidelines provide a framework for individual clinicians to assess risk, confirm diagnosis and adopt a systematic approach to management.
  Medscape Medical News, August 18, 2023
• Genetic Diagnosis Tied to Less Mental Health Care for Autism Children with an autism-associated genetic diagnosis were less likely to receive mental health care than were those without such a diagnosis in a proof-of-concept study.
  Medscape Medical News, August 11, 2023
• Race-Specific Spirometry: No Benefit in CT, Dyspnea Models Race-neutral equations reclassified up to 19% of Black patients as having more severe lung disease.
  Medscape Medical News, August 10, 2023
• COPD Plus PRISm May Promote Frailty Progression A prospective cohort study showed accelerated frailty progression among older adults with COPD and PRISm.
  Medscape Medical News, August 08, 2023
• Patient Identified Who Battled COVID for 505 Days An immunocompromised patient was identified with persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection lasting 505 days, the longest known to date.
  Medscape News UK, April 22, 2022