Plasma Renin: A Useful Marker for Mineralocorticoid Adjustment in Patients With Primary Adrenal Insufficiency.

Context: Renin is a marker of blood volume. There is no consensus on the validity of plasma renin measurement for adjusting mineralocorticoid (MC) substitution in patients with primary adrenal insufficiency (PAI).

Objective: This work aimed to investigate if plasma renin could be used to adjust MC substitution in patients with PAI.

Elderly patients whose hospitalization was medication-related were more likely to receive medication recommendations by clinical pharmacist than patients whose hospitalization was unlikely medication-related in non-geriatric units.

Background: Elderly patients are often polymedicated, and drug-related hospitalizations are common in this population. In our hospital, pharmacists from the mobile geriatric team (MGT) coordinate medication reviews (MR) for elderly patients hospitalized in non-geriatric wards, to prevent iatrogenic.

Objective: The aim of this work is to determine whether the drug-related origin of hospitalizations can be considered as a targeting criterion for performing MRs.

[Medication reconciliation: Interests and limits].

Admission to hospital is a critical transition point for the continuity of care in medication management. Medication reconciliation can identify and resolve errors due to inaccurate medication histories. The practice of medication reconciliation is securing for the patient because of the medication errors detected with significant clinical impact.

Liver T2-weighted MR imaging: assessment of a three-dimensional fast spin-echo with extended echo train acquisition sequence at 1.5 Tesla.

Purpose: To retrospectively compare image quality and lesion detectability with two T2-weighted sequences at 1.5 Tesla (T): respiratory-triggered three-dimensional fat sat fast-spin-echo with extended echo-train acquisition (3D FSE-XETA) and respiratory-triggered two-dimensional fat-sat fast recovery fast-spin-echo (2D FRFSE).

Materials And Methods: MR was performed at 1.

Accuracy of multidetector computed tomography in differentiating primary epiploic appendagitis from left acute colonic diverticulitis associated with secondary epiploic appendagitis.

The objectives of this study are to evaluate the prevalence of left acute colonic diverticulitis (LACD) associated with secondary epiploic appendagitis (SEA) detected by computed tomography (CT); to describe CT features that distinguish LACD associated with SEA from primary epiploic appendagitis (PEA); and to assess the accuracy of CT in diagnosing LACD associated with SEA versus PEA. Institutional review board approval was obtained. We retrospectively identified 46 consecutive patients with LACD between July 2004 and July 2005 and 26 patients with PEA between 2000 and 2005 investigated using multidetector CT.