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Complex cardiac arrhythmia, heart murmurs, hypotension, angina-like chest pain, respiratory insufficiency or distention of the jugular veins may indicate potential cardiac injury. However, on ...

Physical examination is notable for elevated jugular venous distension, an S3 gallop and warm lower extremities with bilateral pitting edema to the mid-shins. Electrocardiogram shows normal sinus ...

Jugular venous distention and significant bilateral lower extremity edema were also found. The patient had eight siblings. Through telephone communication and photographic evidence, none of them had a ...

Physical examination revealed significant jugular venous distention (JVD) and distant heart sounds. Pulsus paradoxus was not assessed in the ED. Results of pulmonary and abdominal examinations were ...

The women have their throats slit one by one. They’re screaming and crying and calling out names as it happens. They’re all tied up next to each other, so each one knows exactly what is ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when ...

As someone who grew up in the U.S. in the 1990s, I am all too familiar with a culture in which anything you and your friends disapprove of is “retarded,” and anybody you might care to insult ...

Millions of patients are hospitalized for acute heart failure (AHF) every year throughout the world. Despite tremendous advances in cardiovascular care, morbidity and mortality for AHF remain high ...

Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2013;11(9):1195-1209. Once stabilized, treatment of AHF patients is based on three primary BP phenotypes: hypertensive (SBP >140 mmHg), normotensive (90–140 mmHg) and ...

In particular, compression of the ipsilateral internal jugular vein (IJV) or suboccipital venous plexus can alleviate symptoms, while compression of the contralateral IJV can exacerbate symptoms. When ...

The effects of inflating a balloon introduced through a sigmoidoscope to 35 cm in the pelvic colon have been observed and compared in 67 patients with the irritable colon syndrome and in 16 normal and ...