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JAMA Intern Med
January 2025
Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Importance: Evidence on cardiovascular benefits and safety of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors is mainly from placebo-controlled trials. Therefore, the comparative effectiveness and safety of individual SGLT-2 inhibitors remain unknown.
Objective: To compare the use of canagliflozin or dapagliflozin with empagliflozin for a composite outcome (myocardial infarction [MI] or stroke), heart failure hospitalization, MI, stroke, all-cause death, and safety outcomes, including diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), lower-limb amputation, bone fracture, severe urinary tract infection (UTI), and genital infection and whether effects differed by dosage or cardiovascular disease (CVD) history.
Front Med (Lausanne)
January 2025
Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Surgery Department, Huadu District People's Hospital of Guangzhou, Guangzhou, China.
Background: Sepsis is a life-threatening disease associated with a high mortality rate, emphasizing the need for the exploration of novel models to predict the prognosis of this patient population. This study compared the performance of traditional logistic regression and machine learning models in predicting adult sepsis mortality.
Objective: To develop an optimum model for predicting the mortality of adult sepsis patients based on comparing traditional logistic regression and machine learning methodology.
Cureus
December 2024
Intensive Care Medicine, St George Hospital, Sydney, AUS.
We report a case of an unusual polypharmacy overdose including warfarin in a patient with a metallic heart valve, complicated by the history that he had ceased taking anticoagulation in the preceding few months, that placed him in an initial prothrombotic phase during his presentation. Our case highlights the importance of elucidating all relevant clinical details in a polypharmacy overdose, as clearly and rapidly as feasible, to enable appropriate management.
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January 2025
Department of Cardiology, Clínica Alemana de Santiago, Avenida Manquehue Norte #1499, 7650568 Vitacura, Chile.
Background: Infective endocarditis during pregnancy is a rare condition that compromises the health of both the mother and the foetus, presenting high rates of morbidity and mortality. The clinical manifestations of this disease are varied, with embolic phenomena being a frequent presentation.
Case Summary: We report the case of a Hispanic 37-year-old patient, at 29 weeks of pregnancy, with no known cardiovascular history, who presented with 48 h of sudden mandibular and lingual pain.
Respir Med Case Rep
December 2024
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA.
An 89-year-old male with a medical history of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy was initially admitted with acute hypoxic respiratory failure attributed to heart failure exacerbation. Aside from progressive dyspnea, a non-pruritic, non-painful rash and constitutional symptoms were reported. Initial work-up was remarkable for normocytic anemia, lymphopenia, mild hypercalcemia, and elevated inflammatory markers.
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