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Dialysis Modality and Incident Stroke Among Patients With End-Stage Kidney Disease: A Registry-Based Cohort Study

Stroke Journal

Whether dialysis modality is associated with cerebrovascular disease is unclear.

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

in 2010 EM Clinics of North America (full text link) For an Exhaustive Review of Syncope and its full management outside the ED environment, go to the 2009 European Society of Cardiology Guidelines (full text pdf). J Am Coll Cardiol, 2010; 55:713-721, doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2009.09.049 16) Linzer M. Estes NA 3rd. Vorperian VR.

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Intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring during cardiac surgery: an observational cohort study

Open Heart

Methods This was an observational study of coronary and/or valvular heart operations from 2010 to 2021. Patients with IONM were more likely to have had baseline cerebrovascular disease (60% vs 22%). Propensity-score matching was employed to assess the association of IONM usage with operative mortality and stroke.