NEJM AUDIO SUMMARYSupplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 356, No. 23.
This summary covers the issue of June 7, 2007. Featured are articles on eprodisate for the treatment of renal disease in AA amyloidosis; natural history and outcome in systemic AA amyloidosis; adjuvant mitotane for adrenocortical carcinoma; bacteremia, fever, and splenomegaly caused by a newly recognized bartonella species; explaining the decrease in U.S. deaths from coronary disease, 1980–2000; and mediating inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis; a review article on local therapy and survival in breast cancer; a clinical problem-solving article titled “A Hand-Carried Diagnosis”; and Perspective articles on the stem-cell market, on the expanded black-box warning for antidepressants, and on the discovery of new infectious diseases and bartonella species.
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