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Monday, November 26, 2012
Mild Concussion Isn't So Mild After All
The authors arrived at their conclusions by comparing 23 patients who had suffered mild TBI resulting in symptoms for 2 months after their injury to 18 age-matched healthy control subjects. What's scary, in my opinion, is that conventional imaging using CT or MRI typically shows a normal picture w/o any evidence of anatomic injury. Yet this study shows that physiologically, there is tremendous impact (no pun intended) from even mild TBI.
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Sunday, November 25, 2012
New Oral Anticoagulants: Ready for Prime Time?
As you know, life isn't always that simple & clear cut as a study was published last week in the British Medical Journal in which the authors concluded that these very same new oral anticoagulants did not increase risk of bleeding compared to traditional vitamin K antagonist while demonstrating similar event reduction & all-cause mortality when used to treat acute venous thromboembolism.
Bottom line: assuming one survives the wallet biopsy, these new oral anticoagulants are safe for use in treating DVT but not in preventing same in the immediate post-ACS period of time while taking an anti-platelet agent, too. Ah, the devil is in the details.
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Saturday, November 24, 2012
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