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Some Patients Suffered Psychiatric Issues After Ozempic Initiation

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- NEW YORK CITY -- Some patients who newly started a GLP-1 receptor agonist quickly developed psychiatric symptoms, a few case reports detailed here. One case involved a female, age 42, with a history of bipolar I disorder.

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Patient on Esketamine had Improved Depression, Fibromyalgia

HCPLive

Treatment-resistant depression with intranasal esketamine was linked to improvements in major depressive disorder (MDD) symptoms and fibromyalgia pain in a 40-year-old female.

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Cardiologists Float Idea of Unionization Among Ways to Protect Employee Physicians

Med Page Today

(MedPage Today) -- LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Even recognized cardiology leaders have not been immune from threats and abuse by their hospital employers, prompting an emotional discussion on worker's rights at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography.

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Do you need to be a trained health care professional to diagnose subtle OMI on the ECG?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

An undergraduate (not yet in medical school) who works as an ED technician (records all EKGs, helps with procedures, takes vital signs) and who reads this blog regularly arrived at work and happened to glance down and see this previously recorded ECG on a table in the ED. It was recorded at 0530: What do you think? The young ED tech immediately suspected LAD OMI.

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Can this thumb test tell if you are at increased risk of a hidden aortic aneurysm?

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

All the parts of our bodies share an inherent connectivity. This goes much further than "the foot bone's connected to the … leg bone." For instance, both hands and feet are connected to a constantly flowing bloodstream, and a nerve network that makes their muscles kick.

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Doxazosin Shows Potential as Alternative PTSD-Related Nightmare Treatment

HCPLive

New literature review data suggests doxazosin is related to less incident hypotension than prazosin, while providing clinical benefit, in PTSD patients with condition-related nightmares.

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Say what? Heart disease and hearing loss

Heart Sisters

People who wear hearing aids wait, on average, 10 YEARS before getting help for age-related hearing loss. Here’s why I didn’t want to wait.

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Efficacy and safety of intrapleural perfusion with hyperthermic chemotherapy for malignant pleural effusion: a meta-analysis

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of intrapleural perfusion with hyperthermic chemotherapy (IPHC) in treating malignant pleural effusion (MPE). Methods PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM), VIP Chinese Science and Technology Journal Full-text Database (VP-CSJFD), and Wanfang database were searched by computer from database establishment to January 17, 2024.

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John Kane, MD: Shifts in Antipsychotics for Schizophrenia

HCPLive

Kane explains why newer long-acting injectables and clozapine may be under-utilized still in the management of schizophrenia.

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Ask Not If, But Which Ablations May Be Performed In the ASC!

HeartRhythm

We read with interest the Research Letter by Liu et al.1 As with most surveys, the results were interesting, but somewhat arbitrary. Yet, the salient point deduced from this survey was that the majority of cardiac electrophysiologists find it safe and appropriate to perform various catheter ablations in ASCs.

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Davangere Devanand, MD: The State of Dementia Drug Development

HCPLive

Devanand reviews lecanemab and the advent of blood biomarkers for dementia and Alzheimer's management at APA 2024.

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The Spatial Ventricular Gradient is Associated with Inducibility of Ventricular Arrhythmias During Electrophysiology Study

HeartRhythm

Myocardial electrical heterogeneity is critical for normal cardiac electromechanical function, but abnormal/excessive electrical heterogeneity is proarrhythmic. The spatial ventricular gradient (SVG), a vectorcardiographic measure of electrical heterogeneity, has been associated with arrhythmic events over long-term follow-up, but its relationship with short-term inducibility of ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) is unclear.

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Schizophrenia Patients Face Longer Hospitalization Stays for Non-Psychiatric Conditions

HCPLive

Despite often presenting to the hospital with similar non-psychiatric conditions, patients with schizophrenia often experience a more difficult care process than those without.

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Correction to: 2024 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics: A Report of US and Global Data From the American Heart Association

Circulation

Circulation, Volume 149, Issue 19 , Page e1164-e1164, May 7, 2024.

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Andrew Chen, MD: Taking More Adverse Event Prone Anxiety Medications

HCPLive

In an interview with Andrew Chen, MD, he explained why patients might need to turn to more adverse event prone anxiety medications.

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From the Literature

Circulation

Circulation, Volume 149, Issue 19 , Page 1534-1535, May 7, 2024.

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Andrew Chen, MD: Breaking Down First-Line Treatments, or Alternatives, for Anxiety

HCPLive

In an interview with Andrew Chen, MD, he discussed the first-line treatment for generalized anxiety disorder and when to take other alterative medication.

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Stroke Science and Care Since the Founding of the American Heart Association

Circulation

Circulation, Volume 149, Issue 19 , Page 1469-1470, May 7, 2024.

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Charles R. Marmar, MD: Blood Biomarkers for PTSD

HCPLive

Marmar explains what anticipated blood and molecular profiling of PTSD may provide psychiatrists treating patients.