Background COVID-19 is an ongoing threat to society. Patients who develop the most
severe forms of the disease have high mortality. The interleukin-6 inhibitor tocilizumab has …

Animals from across the animal kingdom decrease feeding during an infection. Superficially
this response seems maladaptive because the decline in food intake occurs at the same …

A group of 87 patients with inverted papilloma, a locally aggressive benign sinonasol tumor,
were treated over the past 15 years. Selection of therapy depends on an accurate …

Despite increasing use of the transradial approach (TRA) for coronary angiography, TRA
failure and subsequent access site crossover remain a barrier to TRA adoption. The aim of …

Academic Emergency Medicine 2011; 18: 1065–1071© 2011 by the Society for Academic
Emergency Medicine Abstract Objectives: Coronary angiography calcium score (CACS) is …

OBJECTIVE: Young patients are at low risk for an acute coronary syndrome (ACS); however,
many of these patients still enter a “rule-out ACS” pathway and receive stress testing. We …

Background The use of 1 or more mediastinal chest tubes has traditionally been routine for
all cardiac surgery procedures to deal with bleeding. However, it remains unproven whether …

Objective To date only a few randomized controlled studies have compared grafting
strategies in patients with multi-vessel coronary disease. This study represents a pilot RCT …

• Monoblock surgical resection in combination with radiotherapy remains the most effective
method of treatment for advanced carcinoma of the maxillary sinus. Extension of antral …

Objectives To determine whether patients with elevated creatinine who present to the
emergency department (ED) with potential acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are at an …