Intravenous thrombolysis remains a standard treatment for acute ischemic stroke within 4.5 hours after onset. Vascular ...

Corporatization” of health care, a process predicted decades ago, now refers to the general trend throughout the industry toward higher levels of integrated control by consolidated profit-seeking ...

Musunuru and colleagues 1 describe in the Journal an innovative approach in which gene editing is applied in the treatment of a very rare disease, the severe urea-cycle disorder carbamoyl ...

A 63-year-old woman was evaluated for dyspnea and edema. Soft-tissue thickening was noted in the retroperitoneum and mediastinum and around the heart and vessels. A diagnosis was made.

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Autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (aPAP) is a disease characterized by alveolar filling that leads to progressive accumulation of surfactant in alveoli, hypoxemia, and in some patients ...

The authors review the pathophysiology, revised diagnostic definitions, and management of acute kidney injury, a common condition in patients with cirrhosis.

Chronic meningitis is broadly characterized as infectious or noninfectious (Table 1). Geographic region of residence, travel, immune status, and underlying illnesses are the initial building ...

Spontaneous intracranial hypotension is a condition characterized by a lower-than-normal volume of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) because of leakage of CSF through the dural membrane at one or multiple ...

A total of 28 children and adolescents were enrolled. The mean age of the patients was 11.5 years (range, 0.8 to 19.5). The palpable size of the calvarial scalp lesions ranged from 0 mm (i.e., had ...

In the emergency department, the patient described the pain as sharp and rated it at 8 on a scale of 0 to 10 (with 10 indicating the most severe pain). The pain was worst in the epigastrium and in ...