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A Comprehensive Guide to CT-Angiogram of the Heart-Part 1

Rao Doctor

A CT-angiogram of the heart, commonly referred to as cardiac CT angiography, is a sophisticated imaging technique that utilizes computed tomography (CT) technology to visualize the arteries of the heart, called the coronary arteries and assess blood flow within the heart. We will discuss CAC score in detail in the Part 2.

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Complement Levels Vary in irAE-n and Controls

Physician's Weekly

Spearman’s correlation was used to examine the relationships between complement levels, severity, and clinical outcomes of immune-related neurologic adverse events (irAE-n). Serum concentrations of 11 complement components were measured using multiplex enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays.

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Interdisciplinary Case Report

CDOCS

I diagnosed this case to be complex, requiring extensive bone regeneration, possibly with multiple grafts and informed this patient of the risks, timeline and complexity of his case. I utilized 2CC of the mineralized freeze-dried allograft, particle size 500um to 1000um. Much faster than the local lab turnaround times.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa Offers Next Level Care

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

With the direct primary care model, your insurance is used for what it is intended to cover: catastrophic health events, hospitalizations, specialist care, imaging, and surgery. Instead, they establish a direct patient-provider relationship, for a flat fee. You can continue to use your insurance for medications and for labs as well.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

Eric: Utilization, utilization, utilization. So if you have say two similar patients who go to the ICU with COPD, both are an event, one lives for 27 days and dies in the ICU, the other one gets a palliative care consult and dies four days from hospital admission. Eric: Yeah. Scott: That’s what it was. Eric: Okay.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

Those disruptive events or shocks often portend a major decline in function from which people with dementia never fully recover. Today we talk about disruptive events, or health and wealth shocks. So thought it related to our theme of disruptive events about different ways in which you may experience an early demise.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on.