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Internal Medicine Journal Club

The University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio

 

 

Autoantibody signatures in prostate cancer. N Engl J Med. 2005 Sep 22;353(12):1224-35.
PMID: 16177248

**Binanay C, Califf RM, Hasselblad V, O'Connor CM, Shah MR, Sopko G, Stevenson LW, Francis GS, Leier CV, Miller LW; ESCAPE Investigators and ESCAPE Study Coordinators. Evaluation study of congestive heart failure and pulmonary artery catheterization effectiveness: the ESCAPE trial. JAMA. 2005 Oct 5;294(13):1625-33. PMID: 16204662

**Impact of the Pulmonary Artery Catheter in Critically Ill Patients: Meta-analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials
Monica R. Shah; Vic Hasselblad; Lynne W. Stevenson; Cynthia Binanay; Christopher M. O’Connor; George Sopko; Robert M. Califf
JAMA. 2005;294:1664-1670. PMID: 16204666

Sanders GD, Hlatky MA, Owens DK. Cost-effectiveness of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators.Engl J Med. 2005 Oct 6;353(14):1471-80.
PMID: 16207849

Abraham E, Laterre PF, Garg R, Levy H, Talwar D, Trzaskoma BL, Francois B, Guy JS, Bruckmann M, Rea-Neto A, Rossaint R, Perrotin D, Sablotzki A, Arkins N, Utterback BG, Macias WL; Administration of Drotrecogin Alfa (Activated) in Early Stage Severe Sepsis (ADDRESS) Study Group. Drotrecogin alfa (activated) for adults with severe sepsis and a low risk of death. N Engl J Med. 2005 Sep 29;353(13):1332-41.
PMID: 16192478 - done last week

ACPJC: Alendronate reduced clinical and radiographic vertebral fractures in postmenopausal women with osteopenia (only if pts had pre-exiting vertebral fractures)

Comparison of the Canadian CT Head Rule and the New Orleans Criteria in Patients With Minor Head Injury
Ian G. Stiell; Catherine M. Clement; Brian H. Rowe; Michael J. Schull; Robert Brison; Daniel Cass; Mary A. Eisenhauer; R. Douglas McKnight; Glen Bandiera; Brian Holroyd; Jacques S. Lee; Jonathan Dreyer; James R. Worthington; Mark Reardon; Gary Greenberg; Howard Lesiuk; Iain MacPhail; George A. Wells
JAMA. 2005;294:1511-1518.

Long-Term Vasodilator Therapy in Patients with Severe Aortic Regurgitation
A. Evangelista and Others. Engl J Med. 2005

Outbreak of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Gastroenteritis Associated with Alaskan Oysters
J. B. McLaughlin and Others. Engl J Med. 2005

 

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Recent articles of interest:

**Wang X, Yu J, Sreekumar A, Varambally S, Shen R, Giacherio D, Mehra R, Montie JE, Pienta KJ, Sanda MG, Kantoff PW, Rubin MA, Wei JT, Ghosh D, Chinnaiyan AM.