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Natural History of Asymptomatic Renal Stones Before RC

Physician's Weekly

They reviewed individuals referred for RC and UD between 2015 and 2023 at a single center. Individuals with prior stone interventions, additional ureteric stones, or no postoperative imaging were excluded. The results showed that among 606 patients with RC, 47 individuals with 52 renal units met the inclusion criteria.

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Cosmetic Outcomes of Temporal Vein Phlebectomy

Physician's Weekly

Researchers conducted a retrospective study to evaluate patient satisfaction as an indicator of treatment efficacy in the initial cohort who underwent facial phlebectomy surgery. They reviewed data from 22 individuals treated with facial phlebectomy for temporal and periorbital veins between June 2015 and October 2021.

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Q&A: Cannabis Use Tied to Reduced Working Memory

Physician's Weekly

Gowin and his colleagues analyzed data from 1,003 adults between 22 and 36 years of age who had functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), urine toxicology, and cannabis use results collected at one academic site between 2012 and 2015 as part of the Human Connectome Project. It’s more complicated than that. The cohort (mean age, 28.7

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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

And individual practice styles are fine. This thread from a 2015 post illustrates how varying needs of a child with ulcerative colitis call for different ways to connect: Take Luke, a school-aged child with moderate ulcerative colitis complicated by sclerosing cholangitis. The problem comes with call and cross-coverage.

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It’s a Cruel Summer – Two New OPDP Untitled Letters

FDA Law Blog

The approved labeling for AUVI-Q includes warnings and precautions regarding emergency treatment, injection-related complications, serious infections at the injection site, allergic reactions associated with sulfite, and disease interactions. Honestly, we are pretty shocked that this social media post slipped through the review committee.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia. You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives.

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

GeriPal

And so the combination of the institutional structures, as well as the extreme cases that each individual doctor feels will actually help create this different culture, be it high or low intensity. It’s not explainable that each individual physician has independently arrived at this very aggressive practice pattern.

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