NEJM AUDIO SUMMARYSupplement to the New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 360, No. 26.
This summary covers the issue of June 25, 2009. Featured are articles on routine early angioplasty after fibrinolysis for acute myocardial infarction, mutation in ovarian granulosa-cell tumors, treating childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia without cranial irradiation, and isolated familial hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and a GNRH1 mutation; review articles on alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency and on alcoholic hepatitis; a case report of a woman with a blistering cutaneous eruption; and Perspective articles on a lifeline for primary care, on easing the shortage in adult primary care, on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ landmark decision on CT colonography, and on for-profit hospice care and the Medicare benefit. |
