January 26th, 2015
Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: January 26th
Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
This week’s topics include dietary sodium content, mortality, and CVD risk in older adults, the ROX CONTROL HTN study, and more.
June 24th, 2013
Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: June 24th
Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
This week’s topics include time to treatment with IV tPA and outcome from acute ischemic stroke, rapid BP lowering in those with acute intracerebral hemorrhage, and more.
NEJM — Recent Cardiology Articles- Aortic Intramural Hematoma December 6, 2025An 80-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 12-hour history of pleuritic chest pain and an elevated d-dimer level. A CT scan showed an ulcerlike projection in the ascending thoracic aorta.
- Complete Heart Block Detected by Consumer-Facing Digital Health Technologies December 4, 2025A 70-year-old man presented with several hours of shortness of breath and a slow heart rate that had been detected by the ballistocardiographic monitor in his commercial mattress.
- From Bandwidth to Bedside — Bringing AI-Enabled Care to Rural America December 4, 2025Artificial intelligence is increasingly being positioned as a tool for transforming rural care delivery, but it must be integrated into the social support network that sustains patients in their homes and communities.
- Not Otherwise Specified — Season 3: The Forever Crisis of Primary Care: Doctor with a Capital D — NOS Episode 3.6 November 27, 2025NOS host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests lay bare the joys and rewards of full-spectrum primary care practice and consider ways of stoking students’ passion, and strengthening their ability, to pursue it.
- Discontinuation of Aspirin in Acute Coronary Syndromes Treated with Coronary-Artery Stents November 27, 2025In patients with an acute coronary syndrome who undergo coronary-artery revascularization with stent implantation, dual antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and a P2Y12 inhibitor (e.g., clopidogrel, ticagrelor, or prasugrel) is typically prescribed. Current society guidelines recommend that the duration of dual antiplatelet therapy for these patients is 12 months (class I...
- Aortic Intramural Hematoma December 6, 2025