Hypoalbuminemia in Acute Illness: Is There a Rationale for Intervention?

Is There Any Rationale for Reserve Requirements?

Reserve requirements have been part of the regulator)' apparatus of banking in the United States for more than a century and a half. No matter what their original purpose may have been, maintaining the burden of reserve requirements needs a contemporary rationale that can justify the problems they create. The problems attributed to reserve requirements are woven into the fabric of financial mar...

Is there a rationale for antiplatelet therapy in acute heart failure?

C urrent therapies for acute heart failure (AHF) mainly focus on the restoration of hemodynamic stability and fluid balance. 1 Recent decades of therapeutic investigations in AHF have generally failed to improve patient outcomes. These data are in contrast to the ongoing improvements in survival in patients with chronic HF. 3 This disconnect may be in part because of the better understanding of...

Lone AF: is There a Rationale?

Although atrial fibrillation (AF) development has been demonstrated to be associated with underlying cardiovascular conditions such as hypertension, valvular heart disease or diabetes mellitus; in a subset of relatively younger patients, no cardiopulmonary disease diagnosis can be established. AF patients younger than 60 years without clinical or echocardiographic evidence of cardiopulmonary di...

Postnatal screening for Klinefelter syndrome: is there a rationale?

UNLABELLED Diagnosis of Klinefelter syndrome (KS) allows for timely beneficial interventions across the lifespan. Most cases currently remain undiagnosed because of low awareness of KS amongst health professionals, the hesitancy of men to seek medical attention and its variable clinical presentation. Given these barriers, population-based genetic screening provides an approach to comprehensive ...

Is there a role for glutamine in critical illness?