Gosselin, S;
Morris, M;
Miller-Nesbitt, A;
Hoffman, R. S;
Hayes, B. D;
Turgeon, A. F;
Gilfix, B. M;
Grunbaum, A. M;
Bania, T. C;
Thomas, S. H;
Morais, J. A;
Graudins, A;
Bailey, B;
Mégarbane, B;
Calello, D. P;
Levine, M;
Stellpflug, S. J;
Hoegberg, L. C;
Chuang, R;
Stork, C;
Bhalla, A;
Rollins, C. J;
Lavergne, V.
Intravenous lipid emulsion (ILE) therapy is a novel treatment that was discovered in the last decade. Despite unclear understanding of its mechanisms of action, numerous and diverse publications attested to its clinical use. However, current evidence supporting its use is unclear and recommendations are ...
Yellow fever (YF) is a mosquito-borne viral disease that is endemic to sub-Saharan Africa and tropical South America. YF virus causes an estimated 200,000 cases of clinical disease and 30,000 deaths annually [WHO 1992]. Clinical disease ranges from a mild, undifferentiated febrile illness to severe disea...
In October 2014, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed the first serogroup B meningococcal (MenB) vaccine (MenB-FHbp [Trumenba®, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a subsidiary of Pfizer Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]) as a 3-dose series. The FDA licensed a second MenB vaccine (MenB-4C [Bexsero®...
OBJECTIVE: We sought to provide evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and management of fetal anemia. METHODS: A systematic literature review was performed using MEDLINE, PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library. The search was restricted to English-language articles published from 1966 through May...
BACKGROUND: Non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC), including basal and squamous cell carcinoma, represents the most common malignancy. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this document is to provide guidance to Canadian health care practitioners on NMSC management. METHODS: After conducting a literature review, the group d...
BACKGROUND: The role of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) for the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) has been examined in the medical literature for decades. There are more systematic reviews of the HBO2/DFU literature than there have been randomized controlled trials (RCTs), but none of these reviews has r...
Alsanea, N;
Almadi, M. A;
Abduljabbar, A. S;
Alhomoud, S;
Alshaban, T. A;
Alsuhaibani, A;
Alzahrani, A;
Batwa, F;
Hassan, A. H;
Hibbert, D;
Nooh, R;
Alothman, M;
Rochwerg, B;
Alhazzani, W;
Morgan, R. L.
BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer is the most common cancer among Saudi men and the third commonest among Saudi women. Given the predominance of colorectal cancer compared with other cancers in Saudi Arabia, context-specific guidelines are needed for screening. METHODS: Experts from the Saudi Society of Colo...
Reyes-García, R;
García-Martín, A;
Varsavsky, M;
Rozas-Moreno, P;
Cortés-Berdonces, M;
Luque-Fernández, I;
Gómez Sáez, J. M;
Vidal Casariego, A;
Romero Muñoz, M;
Guadalix Iglesias, S;
Fernández García, D;
Jódar Gimeno, E;
Muñoz Torres, M.
Objetivo: Actualizar las recomendaciones previas formuladas por el Grupo de trabajo de osteoporosis y metabolismo mineral de la Sociedad Española de Endocrinología y Nutrición (SEEN) para la evaluación y el tratamiento de la osteoporosis asociada a diferentes enfermedades endocrinas y alteraciones nu...
Bressler, B;
Marshall, J. K;
Bernstein, C. N;
Bitton, A;
Jones, J;
Leontiadis, G. I;
Panaccione, R;
Steinhart, A. H;
Tse, F;
Feagan, B.
BACKGROUND & AIMS:: The medical management of ulcerative colitis (UC) has improved through the development of new therapies and novel approaches that optimize existing drugs. Previous Canadian consensus guidelines addressed the management of severe UC in the hospitalized patient. We now present consensu...
Intra-abdominal infections are one of the most common gastrointestinal emergencies and a leading cause of septic shock. A consensus conference on the management of community-acquired peritonitis was published in 2000. A new consensus as well as new guidelines for less common situations such as peritoniti...