Worse and Worse

Worse and Worse and Worse: Essential Tremor Patients’ Longitudinal Perspectives on Their Condition

BACKGROUND Essential tremor (ET) patients regularly inquire about their prognosis. Therefore, physicians have cause to review available medical literature for meaningful answers. Longitudinal studies are ideally suited to provide a glimpse into the evolution of tremor. Despite its high prevalence, there are surprisingly few longitudinal clinical studies of ET. Furthermore, none of them provide ...

Making Reperfusion Worse

Worse Heterogeneity Affecting Outcome From Acute Stroke Therapy : Making Reperfusion Print ISSN: 0039-2499. Online ISSN: 1524-4628 Copyright © 2001 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Stroke doi: 10.1161/hs1001.096588 2001;32:2318-2327 Stroke. http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/32/10/23...

Sinusitis or something worse?

A 61-year-old man with a history of seizures presents for a routine visit. His last seizure was several months ago and occurred the day after falling from a ladder. He does not recall hitting his head during this fall. Otherwise, his seizures have been well controlled. His only complaint is a persistent runny nose. Computed tomography scans reveal opacity with a fluid level in the left sphenoid...

Quinidine. Worse than adverse?

Worse and worse off: the impact of lymphedema on work and career after breast cancer

PURPOSE Our study examines the impact of breast cancer-related lymphedema on women's work and career. Our research addresses a significant knowledge gap regarding the additional impact of lymphedema on breast cancer survivors. METHODS An online national survey was conducted with 361 women who either had breast cancer without lymphedema (Group 1, n = 209) or breast cancer with lymphedema (Grou...