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Clinical Articles / BY: Kenneth M. Madden, MD, MSc March 2017
... external validation has demonstrated poor specificity.[ 10 ] Neuroautonomic syncope, cardiac syncope, and syndromes ... of 20 mm Hg or a drop in diastolic blood pressure of 10 mm Hg after standing upright for 3 minutes.[ 13 ] ... stenosis in older adults) and arrhythmias (usually sinus node disease or heart blocks). Cardiac syncope has a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Perminder Bains, MD, FRCPC January/February 2017
... Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame in 2006.[ 10 ] Hopps took his life’s work quite literally to heart. ... engineering until his death in 1998 at the age of 79.[ 10 ] Questions about pacemaker use   While pacemaker use has ... implantation include bradycardia resulting from sinus node dysfunction and third-degree or advanced second-degree ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jasmine Grewal, MD, FRCPC September 2016
... hypertension is common in adult CHD, complicating around 10% of all cases.[ 9 , 10 ] PAH is a progressive condition ... 20% of patients develop complete atrioventricular node conduction block by adulthood and require pacemaker ... In patients with prior surgery in the region of the sinus node or its arterial supply (e.g., patients who have ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kristy Cho, MD, FRCSC May 2014
... diagnosis by open biopsy would ideally occur in less than 10% of incident cases.[ 8 ] Despite these recommendations, ... require nodal sampling with either a sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) or axillary dissection. Occasionally, pathologic examination of the excised node(s) identifies isolated tumor cells with a maximum ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Rana S. A. Khan, MBBS, January/February 2013
... survival, recurrence of tumor, resection margin, or lymph node harvest for both total number and number of positive ... surgical oncology technique (resection margins, lymph node count), operating time, conversion rate, and duration of ... hospitals in British Columbia and Washington state.10,11 Our lymph node harvest numbers were higher than in any ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Megan Isaac-Renton, BSc, July/August 2010
... A large, tender, fluctuant right inguinal lymph node was identified along with several adjacent lymph nodes ... of purulent material was aspirated from the inguinal lymph node.  The patient was given a course of oral ... titre is demonstrated.  Although a total of 16 patients (10 male) diagnosed with tula­remia were identified from 1991 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J.E. Albrecht, MD January/February 2008
... gingi­vitis and a 1-cm tender left axillary lymph node. Chest auscultation was limited by the patient’s ... days and the cough and emesis resolved. The left axillary node became nontender and gingivitis abated. By day 4 in ... therapy was then supplied to the patient, who took 700 mg (10 mg/kg) every 8 hours for 5 days and 700 mg every 12 hours ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Philip Hassen, MPH, FCC, HSE, September 2006
... the government of Canada’s 5-year commitment to spend $10 million annually to develop strategies to support national ... are participating and are being supported by a Western Node ( westernnode@saferhealthcarenow.ca ) based in Calgary, ... Medication Practices Canada Ms Marlies van Dijk, Western Node Dr Jennifer Zelmer, Canadian Institute for Health ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC April 2006
... MRSA are emerging as common community pathogens. [9,10]  Simultaneously, the nasal carrier rate of MRSA is ... 2002 to Nov. 2005. [img_assist|nid=1018|title=|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=546|height=640] Antibiotics listed ...
Clinical Articles / BY: H.F. Kennecke, MD, MHA, FRCPC, April 2006
... was compared with tamoxifen and found similar results. [10]  With a shorter follow-up time there was a 19% ... into a benefit of 6% in absolute terms. In patients with node-positive breast cancer there was also a 40% reduction in ... risk of breast cancer occurrence. Women who had low-grade node-negative disease had a very low risk (3%) of breast ...