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Cerebral venous thrombosis in a breast cancer patient taking tamoxifen: Report of a case
Conclusion Clinicians should warn about the possibility of thromboembolic complications with tamoxifen.
Source: International Journal of Surgery Case Reports - November 29, 2014 Category: Surgery Source Type: research

Cost–Utility Analysis of Gastric Bypass for Severely Obese Patients in Spain
Conclusions Gastric bypass is an intervention that dominates over the option of not intervening when a lifetime horizon is considered.
Source: Obesity Surgery - November 10, 2014 Category: Surgery Source Type: research

Albumin to globulin ratio and/or plasma albumin in predicting long-term mortality
In a recent study, Azab et al observed that pretreatment albumin–globulin ratio (AGR) is an independent and significant predictor of long-term mortality in breast cancer patients. These results are interesting in the light of the recent studies which showed that use of albumin-containing solutions for the resuscitation of patients with sepsis lowered mortality compared with other fluid resuscitation regimens, although some studies did not support this conclusion. Since albumin therapy is relatively safe, it would have been interesting had Azab et al studied whether therapeutic intervention to bring AGR to normal could ...
Source: American Journal of Surgery - January 21, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Undurti N. Das Tags: Letters to the Editor Source Type: research