Showing posts with label endocrinology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label endocrinology. Show all posts
Friday, June 11, 2021

Primary aldosteronism: an update

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  Here's an update on this topic recently published in Cardiology in Review. The original Conn syndrome was described ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Thyroid acropachy: an unusual complication of Graves disease

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From a recent published case report and mini-review : The pathogenesis of acropachy is unknown, except for the anatomic location, in tha...
Friday, October 18, 2019

ICU or stepdown for your DKA patient?

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From a recent study : Highlights In some centers, all Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) patients are...
Tuesday, August 06, 2019

The cholesterol hypothesis is alive again!

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From a recent paper in JAMA : Key Points Question Is consuming dietary cholesterol or eggs associated with ...
Saturday, March 30, 2019

Do you really need a TSH receptor antibody test to distinguish Grave’s disease from other forms of hyperthyroidism?

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In this study clinical assessment alone was poor .
Friday, March 29, 2019

Testosterone replacement associated with better cardiovascular outcomes

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Will a randomized controlled trial some day blow this out of the water like we saw in the case of ERT ?
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

What to do with subclinical hyperthyroidism

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From a recent concise review : Subclinical hyperthyroidism is defined by a low or undetectable serum thyroid-stimula...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Testosterone and cardiovascular health

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From a recent review : Testosterone (T) has a number of important effects on the cardiovascular system. In men, T le...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Autoimmune thyroid disease

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Free full text review . From the conclusion: The management of autoimmune thyroid disease continues to be revised b...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Adrenal crisis

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Nuts, bolts and a lot of pearls here .
Monday, March 11, 2019

Renin-aldosterone profiling for all hypertensives? Have we come full circle?

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Decades ago John Laragh popularized renin profiling for the evaluation of hypertensive patients. But due to limited availab...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

Smart Mat technology can detect diabetic foot ulcers a month in advance

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From a report in Diabetes Care . There were a lot of false positives.
Sunday, January 27, 2019

RAI vs antithyroid drugs

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This is from an evidence summary from AFP : Radioactive iodine therapy and antithyroid medications produce similar h...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Pre admission oral corticosteroids and the risk of ARDS in septic patients

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From a recent study : Objectives: To determine the association between preadmission oral corticosteroid re...

Should subclinical hyperthyroidism be treated? If so, when?

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Here are some key points from the ATA guidelines : When TSH is persistently less than 0.1 mU/L, treatment of SH is...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Insulin pump versus multiple injections for DM 1

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From a large population based cohort study : Conclusions and Relevance Among young patients with type 1 diabetes, insulin pu...
Monday, January 14, 2019

SGLT-2 inhibitors: no increased risk of ketoacidosis in clinical trials in meta-analysis

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This is in contrast to what is seen in the real world.
Thursday, December 27, 2018

The link between the metabolic syndrome and sudden cardiac death

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From a large database : Clinical Perspective What Is New? In a longitudinal, population‐based sample ...
Sunday, December 23, 2018

Parathyroid disease and heart disease

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Here is a free full text review on the associations. From the review: Parathyroid hormone (PTH) acts on G-p...
Friday, December 21, 2018

Pioglitazone use improves NASH and associated fibrosis

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JAMA Internal Medicine : Question What is the association of thiazolidinedione therapy with advanced liver fibrosis in nonal...