PC-SPES: Current Evidence and Remaining Questions

Complementary and alternative medicine patients are talking about: PC-SPES.

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1188/05.CJON.113-114 PC-SPES is an herbal supplement containing eight Chinese herbs (see Table 1). PC stands for prostate cancer, and spes is Latin for hope. PC-SPES was formulated according to traditional Chinese medicine principles involving ingredients that may counteract cytotoxic agents, minimize toxicity, and reduce the development of drug resistance in targe...

‘ ‘ Myocardial stunning ’ ’ remaining questions 1

Dirk J. Duncker , Rainer Schulz , Roberto Ferrari , David Garcia-Dorado , Carlo Guarnieri , Gerd Heusch , Pieter D. Verdouw a,) a Experimental Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus UniÕersity Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands b Department of Pathophysiology, UniÕersity of Essen, Essen, Germany c Fondazione Clinica del LaÕoro, Brescia, Italy d Hospital General UniÕersitairi, V...

Optimizing haemodiafiltration: tools, strategy and remaining questions.

Fig. 1. Suggested flow diagram for reporting of long-term major adverse events after coronary angiography with iodinated contrast in the CARE trial. revascularization. Perhaps a future report from the CARE trial can inform the reader about these 38 subjects, particularly those who suffered CI-AKI with respect to their courses of treatment and care in the year of follow-up after the trial. By fi...

Recurrent pericarditis: recent advances and remaining questions.

Recurrence is a serious complication of acute pericarditis, characterized by a return of pericardial pain after recovery from an attack of typical acute pericarditis. Some patients experience only a single recurrence, but in many less fortunate, pericardial pain returns unexpectedly at variable intervals during a period that may extend over many years. The pain and any associated fever and leuk...

Thermodilution right ventricular ejection fraction. Remaining questions.