Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Cancer Patients: Should We Really Refrain From Considering It for Preparticipation Screening?

Should we be screening for ovarian cancer?

Ovarian cancer carries the worst prognosis of all gynaecological cancers, with an overall five-year survival rate of around 30-40 percent. For women diagnosed with early-stage disease the five-year survival rate is over 80 percent1. Majority of the ovarian cancers present in advanced stages due to vague symptoms. Advanced stage disease carries a poor fiveyear survival rate of around 15 percent....

Screening for ectasia risk: what are we screening for and how should we screen for it?

ow should we screen our patients for postoperative ectasia risk prior to excimer laser corneal refractive surgery, or laser vision correction, in 2013? This has been debated in the literature1-4 and remains a “hot topic” at most meeting venues. The challenge we face as refractive surgeons in daily practice is to most accurately identify individuals who have increased susceptibility for developi...

Erythema nodosum :what should we consider about it?

Updating ACSM's Recommendations for Exercise Preparticipation Health Screening.

The purpose of the American College of Sports Medicine's (ACSM) exercise preparticipation health screening process is to identify individuals who may be at elevated risk for exercise-related sudden cardiac death and/or acute myocardial infarction. Recent studies have suggested that using the current ACSM exercise preparticipation health screening guidelines can result in excessive physician ref...

Electrocardiograms should be included in preparticipation screening of athletes.

Among the adolescent and young adult population, the absolute risk of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is low, whereas the benefits of identifying predisposing conditions and preventing SCA are disproportionately large.1,2 Competitive athletes included within this population subgroup are at higher risk of SCA than expected for the general population in this age category.3–5 Recently, there has been ...