NEJM AUDIO SUMMARYSupplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 356, No. 16.
This summary covers the issue of April 19, 2007. Featured are articles on tranfusion strategies in pediatric intensive care units, the effect of torcetrapib on carotid atherosclerosis in familial hypercholesterolemia, omeprazole before endoscopy in patients with gastrointestinal bleeding, targeted therapy for inherited GPI deficiency, and the decrease in breast-cancer incidence in 2003 in the United States; a review article on fecal incontinence in adults; a case report of a woman with renal failure after heart–lung transplantation; and Perspective articles on the FDA and the case of Ketek and on approving the vagus-nerve stimulator for depression. |
