Volume: 122
Number: 1
Index: January 2010
Clinical Focus: Emergency Medicine

March 2010
Clinical Focus: Deep Venous Thrombosis, Cardiovascular Events, Differential Diagnosis, and Gastrointestinal Disorders
Gastrointestinal:

• Gastroesophageal reflux disease
• Ulcerative colitis
• Crohn's disease
• Spastic colon
• GI tract erosion
• Bariatric surgery
• Laparoscopic band surgery
• Short bowel syndrome and recombinant human growth hormone
• Malabsorption syndrome
• Parenteral nutrition
• Screening for pelvic dyssynergia in chronic constipation
• Cyclic vomiting syndrome
• Cell transplantation: minimally invasive surgery
• Sources for hepatocytes for transplantation
• Future directions in endoscopic sedation
• The role of anesthesia in endoscopy
• Advances in celiac disease
• Enteroscopy for inflammatory disorders
• CLDs: Markers of disease progression
• GERD: PPI failure
• Preventing colorectal cancer in inflammatory bowel disease
• Autoimmune disorders of the pancreas and biliary tract
• Bariatrics for the endoscopist: bypasses and detours
• Colonoscopic cancer screening in 2010
• Common approaches to pelvic floor abnormalities
• Detecting and managing colonic dysplasia in IBD: current and future practices
• Gastrointestinal surgery in the elderly
• Hepatic resection for liver masses
• Optional management of anticoagulation
• Management of hepatitis C non-responders and relapsers
• Multimodality detection and management of Barrett's and dysplasia
• NASH and comorbidities
• New and emerging approaches to the management of IBS
• NOTES single-port access surgery
• Pancreatic cancer screening
• Predicting and treating variceal hemorrhage
• Advances in endoscopic imaging
• Clinical HPB/upper GI
• Endoscopic sedation and monitoring issues in 2010
• HCV therapy advances
• New developments in eosinophilic esophagitis

Cardiovascular:

• Long-term outcomes of drug-eluting versus bare-metal stents in underrepresented populations: results from the Linked NCDR and CMS database
• Antithrombotic strategy during PCI in NSTEMI: Update from ACTION registry GWTG
• Timing of in-hospital CABG in relationship to mortality for ACS patients: NCDR ACTION registry
• Limitations of using cardiac catheterization rates as a quality measure for non-ST-segment elevation MI
• STEMI care and outcomes
• High-risk features of carotid artery stent patients: preliminary results from the CARE registry
• Secondary prevention therapies among patients with nonobstructive CAD
• Regional variations of primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillators
• High-dose statins usage before PCI
• Embolic Protection in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation (PROTECT AF) trial and Watchman group
• JUPITER trial and rosuvastatin reducing risk of thromboembolism
• Combination treatment in atrial fibrillation
• Polypill usage with statins, aspirin, and folic acid
• Benefits of renal sympathetic nerve ablation
• Use of relaxin in acute heart failure
• Detecting DVT: venous access in the emergency department
• DVT prevention in the at-risk patient population
• DVT prevention in critically ill patients

Submission deadline: January 04
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• Physicians' Attitudes Toward Post-MI Aspirin Prophylaxis: Findings from an Online Questionnaire in Europe and Latin America
• The Effect of Prescription Omega-3 Fatty Acids on Body Weight After 8 to 16 Weeks of Treatment for Very High Triglyceride Levels

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