Do We Know How to Find Gestational Diabetes Mellitus?

Do we know how to find gestational diabetes mellitus?

It is now a common practice to identify women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and initiate treatment aimed at preventing hyperglycemic episodes and improving outcome for the woman and her unborn child (1–3). However, since before the 1st Workshop Conference on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in 1979 (4 ), there has been heated discussion about how this is best done. By the 4th internatio...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

Superior Capsule Reconstruction: What Do We Know?

The management of irreparable rotator cuff tears remains challenging. Since its introduction by Mihata in 2012, superiorcapsule reconstruction (SCR) has grown in popularity at an astonishingly rapid rate. The aim of this article is to providea comprehensive review of the available literature, in order to highlight what has so far been published on SCR,covering all aspects including biomechanica...

Do we know how to set decision thresholds for diabetes?

The diagnosis of diabetes, based on measured fasting plasma glucose level, depends on choosing a threshold level for which the probability of failing to detect disease (missed diagnosis), as well as the probability of falsely diagnosing disease (false alarm), are both small. The Bayesian risk provides a tool for aggregating and evaluating the risks of missed diagnosis and false alarm. However, ...

Molecular approaches to diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis what we know and what we do not know.

Invasive aspergillosis (IA) are a major complication in immunocompromized patients where can be serious and rapidly fatal. Early diagnosis and early appropriate antifungal treatment is important in reducing mortality and morbidity. But despite many efforts to develop detection methods, the diagnosis of IA still remains challenging and current conventional methods are limited for adequate diagno...