Referral or follow-up?

Coronary artery disease: stress testing, follow-up and referral.

Daniel J. Levine, MD, FACC  coronary artery disease remains a leading health problem in the United States. It accounts for major morbidity and mortality among men and women. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) reports that one in four deaths annually is directly caused by coronary artery disease. How we diagnose and treat coronary artery disease is a common concern for primary...

Chronic kidney disease: screening, follow-up and referral.

Surgery in Cholesteatoma: Ten years Follow-up

Background: During last decades, many otologists attempted to make a long standing dry ear, resulting in better hearing after cholesteatoma surgery. This study evaluated the prognosis of two common methods of cholesteatoma ear surgery considering ten years follow-up. Methods: This retrospective analysis was done using medical records of 108 adult patients with cholesteatoma. After ten years of ...

Surgery in Cholesteatoma: Ten years Follow-up

Dear Editor, I was greatly interested in the article "Surgery in cholesteatoma: Ten years Follow-up" by Dr. M. Ajalloueyan published in your journal in March 2006; Vol 31, No 1: 37-40.I think there are grave misconceptions and many doubts about this article. That article has some misleading data that should be clarified by the author. The descriptions of table 1, "Statistical characteristics of...

study of 2 years follow-up of referral patients with abnormal pap smear

background: abnormal pap smear consists of premalignant or malignant cervical lesions. many of premalignant cervical lesions will never progress to invasive malignancy, or even may regress over the time. thus, there is always a risk of overtreatment of patients with an abnormal pap smear. a long-term follow-up of these patients can reveal final events associated with each  subtype of abnormal p...