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REALITY trial supports restrictive transfusion in anemic MI
- Author:
- Bruce Jancin
Restrictive transfusion proves more effective and less costly than liberal transfusion.
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HOME-PE trial clarifies which pulmonary embolism patients to treat at home
- Author:
- Bruce Jancin
“Who’s happy with the HOME-PE trial? I think everybody.” – Dr. Stavros V. Konstantinides
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RATE-AF trial boosts digoxin for rate control in permanent AFib
- Author:
- Bruce Jancin
Study shows equally good rate control as with a beta-blocker, but with far fewer adverse events.
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Early rhythm control in AFib gains new life
- Author:
- Bruce Jancin
EAST-AFNET 4 trial reanimates rhythm-control strategy as superior for 5-year cardiovascular outcomes.
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Batten down the hatches for thyroid storm
- Author:
- Bruce Jancin
“The big thing is to look for and treat the underlying precipitating event.”
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Heart failure: Practice-changing developments for hospitalists
- Author:
- Bruce Jancin
“I really like this H2FPEF score. The score works very, very well” for diagnosis of HFpEF – Dr. Dustin T. Smith
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Mapping melasma management
- Author:
- Bruce Jancin
Continuous therapy is warranted to prevent recurrences.
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Novel oral drug improves sunlight tolerance in patients with erythropoietic protoporphyria
- Author:
- Bruce Jancin
Dersimelagon increases cutaneous melanin density.
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Managing acute pain in inpatients on OUD therapy
- Author:
- Bruce Jancin
“This is something we’re going to see more frequently, and many of us already have.”
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Performance status, molecular testing key to metastatic cancer prognosis
- Author:
- Bruce Jancin
“The applicability of clinical trials data to hospitalized patients is generally poor. That’s an important caveat to keep in mind.”
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Novel botulinum toxin type A earns high marks for forehead lines
- Author:
- Bruce Jancin
DAXI is under regulatory review for treatment of glabellar lines.
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Risk stratification key in acute pulmonary embolism
- Author:
- Bruce Jancin
“I think if I had to pick the one thing that drives my decision the most about whether someone needs more aggressive therapy than anticoagulation...
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A ‘foolproof’ way to diagnose narrow complex tachycardias on EKGs
- Author:
- Bruce Jancin
Ask these three questions about the EKG to quickly arrive at the right diagnosis.
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COVID-19/heart connection: What hospitalists need to know
- Author:
- Bruce Jancin
Be selective in ordering cardiac biomarker tests for COVID-19 patients, cardiologist advises.
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CT-FFR offers a noninvasive ‘one-stop shop’ for pre-TAVR assessment
- Author:
- Bruce Jancin
The novel technology, coronary CT angiography–derived fractional flow reserve, speeds the TAVR patient’s diagnostic journey.