Magnesium is crucial to fundamental metabolic processes and its homeostasis is maintained by urinary excretion. The etiologies, clinical features, and hereditary causes of hypomagnesemia are reviewed. Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology
Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is a useful method of noninvasively determining the pulmonary artery occlusion pressure (PAOP) in ventilated patients, French researchers report. Reuters Health Information
Hemoglobin A1c should remain the gold standard. We should refine it to incorporate sensible assumptions about the correlation between successive data values. Medscape General Medicine
Do paclitaxel eluting stents improve angiographic outcomes in populations with diabetes, when compared with CoStar stents? The Journal of Invasive Cardiology
Patients with acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome may benefit from more conservative fluid management, leading to lower mortality rates. Medscape Medical News
