What course are we to expect for a child with her first manic episode?:

What are we and what do we expect to become?

EDITORIAL What are we and what do we expect to become? ଝ ¿Qué somos y qué queremos ser? A major medical association needs a powerful, exciting, balanced, training medical journal, which is attractive to authors and readers, and which is also sustainable, so that it can endure. ActasUrológicasEspañolas, official journal of the Spanish Association of Urology and the American Urological Confederat...

What Investigations Are Ordered in Patients with First-episode Psychosis?

Psychiatrists are often left with the dilemma of which investigations to order in adolescents presenting with a first episode of psychosis. Blood work, urine studies, and neuroimaging studies were tracked in 13 adolescents admitted with a diagnosis of first-episode psychosis over a 13-month period to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. Variation was found in the amount of investigation ...

TAVR in 2017―What we know? What to expect?

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) or replacement (TAVR) represents nowadays a viable and established therapeutic option in patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) who are considered high or prohibitive risk for conservative surgical treatment. It has been a long journey requiring almost ten years of preclinical research since the first in man TAVR in 2002. Five more years of clin...

What have we learned from research into first-episode psychosis?

A new stage in the conceptualisation of schizophrenia has begun. It is defined by greater optimism for the future for those who suffer from this disease, a future that is less damaging and fatalistic as the one postulated up until very recently. Today psychiatry stands in the middle of a crossroads. Research has achieved great advances and the time to consolidate an important qualitative change...

Coronary angioplasty--what can we reasonably expect?