ask the patient to lie down on a flat hard bed. ask him to straightene his leg as much as possible.check for lumbar lordiosis by inserting the hand between the pts spine and the table. now ask him to flex his ( the healthy)leg at the knee and the hip and draw the leg towards the chest... if the patient has flexion deformity of the hip then the affected limb flexes at the knee joint
A Medicare analysis looking at 30-day mortality between hospitals offering PCI and those that don't hints that policy-makers looking to regionalize AMI care need to take into account what works and what doesn't at a local level. Heartwire
A new IVUS study has found that although the metabolic syndrome is associated with accelerated plaque progression, this can be attributed to its individual component risk factors rather than the syndrome itself. Heartwire
Can routine blood count variables be predicators of mortality from coronary heart disease? This long-term study examines the evidence. International Journal of Epidemiology