Indication

Does indication drive use, or does use drive indication?

I this issue of The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Fu et al1 report on the results of a study of paliperidone palmitate once-monthly in patients diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. In this well-designed and well-executed trial, paliperidone monthly was used either as monotherapy or as an adjunct to mood stabilizers or antidepressants. The subjects were randomized to continue paliperidone ...

Inm-1: Indication of First Trimester Sonongraphy

Improvement in ultrasound technology, including transvaginalsonography and higher frequency probes, has led to a better understanding of early pregnancy development. The first trimester ultrasound have been identified that can be used to reassure women that their pregnancy is progressing normally or abnormal them that their pregnancy will fail. The practicing radiologist and obstetrician must b...

Stereoelectroencephalography: Indication and Efficacy

Stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) is a method for invasive study of patients with refractory epilepsy. Localization of the epileptogenic zone in SEEG relied on the hypothesis of anatomo-electro-clinical analysis limited by X-ray, analog electroencephalography (EEG), and seizure semiology in the 1950s. Modern neuroimaging studies and digital video-EEG have developed the hypothesis aiming at mo...

Confounding by Indication: Response.

Indication for carotid endarterectomy.

From recent randomized studies, carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is highly beneficial to the patients with a symptomatic high-grade carotid artery stenosis (70-99%), but the surgical indication for an asymptomatic carotid artery disease remains unsolved. Sixty-three atheromatous plaques (symptomatic 51, asymptomatic 12) were obtained from 57 patients who underwent CEA. The presence of an intraplaqu...