Article
- Author:
- M. Chadi Alraies, MD, FACP
Publish date: March 1, 2019
In patients without symptoms, early repolarization is nearly always a benign incidental finding.
Article
- Author:
- M. Chadi Alraies, MD, FACP
Publish date: December 3, 2018
Routine cardiac telemetry raises costs and does little.
Article
- Author:
- M. Chadi Alraies, MD, FACP
Publish date: November 1, 2018
The decision should be based on clinical presentation, burden of pulmonary embolism, and other imaging findings.
Article
- Author:
- M. Chadi Alraies, MD, FACP
Publish date: May 1, 2018
Refer sooner rather than later if the patient has heart failure, uncontrolled infection, or embolic risk.
Article
- Author:
- M. Chadi Alraies, MD, FACP
Publish date: July 1, 2016
Many patients need only reassurance and do not need to see a cardiologist.
Article
- Author:
- M. Chadi Alraies, MD, FACP
Publish date: February 1, 2016
Yes, it is reasonable to consider deactivation near the end of life if the patient or family wishes.
Article
- Author:
- M. Chadi Alraies, MD, FACP
Publish date: August 1, 2015
Added to drug therapy, it can modestly improve blood pressure control, but has no significant effect on outcomes.
Article
- Author:
- M. Chadi Alraies, MD, FACP
Publish date: May 1, 2015
Further evaluation is required for recurrent pericarditis resistant to conventional therapy or for manifestations of systemic disease.
Article
- Author:
- M. Chadi Alraies, MD, FACP
Publish date: November 1, 2014
The procedure can control the airway, find the source of the bleeding, and in some cases stop it.
Article
- Author:
- M. Chadi Alraies, MD, FACP
Publish date: July 1, 2014
Article
- Author:
- M. Chadi Alraies, MD, FACP
Publish date: June 1, 2014
Article
- Author:
- M. Chadi Alraies, MD, FACP
Publish date: March 1, 2014
Regard its values with suspicion, especially when they do not agree with the patient’s blood glucose levels.
Article
- Author:
- M. Chadi Alraies, MD, FACP
Publish date: January 1, 2014
No. Only critically ill patients who meet specific criteria should receive it.
Article
- Author:
- M. Chadi Alraies, MD, FACP
Publish date: January 1, 2014
After 3 hours of chest pain, a 67-year-old man presented with deep symmetric T-wave inversions in the precordial leads, a prognostically significan...
Article
- Author:
- M. Chadi Alraies, MD, FACP
Publish date: October 1, 2013
No. The decision is complex and depends on whether the thrombosis is acute or chronic and on other factors.
