Moderate and Severe Blood Pressure Elevation Associated with Stroke in the Mexican Hispanic Population.

Background: Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in US. Amongst other factors such as age, sex, race, genetics, obesity, diabetes etc., hypertension continues to be the leading contributing factor towards stroke.

Rates of residual disease with close but negative margins in breast cancer surgery.

Objectives: A recent multidisciplinary consensus defined an adequate breast cancer margin as no ink on tumor. The purpose of this study was to analyze rates of residual disease at re-excision by margin width.

Materials And Methods: A prospective database at a single institution was reviewed from 2000 to 2012.

Validation study of a modern treatment algorithm for nipple discharge.

Background: Nipple discharge occurs in 2% to 5% of women. We evaluated the effectiveness of a previously proposed treatment algorithm for these patients.

Methods: Patients with pathologic nipple discharge and a negative mammogram and subareolar ultrasound were offered follow-up from 2005 to 2011 according to the algorithm.