Gout and Steroids!

Annals of Internal Medicine published a Multicenter, Double-Blind, Randomized Trial and compared Oral Prednisolone in the Treatment of Acute Gout. Patients were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive either indomethacin or prednisolone for 5 days. The regimen was for patients presented to the ED within 3 days of symptom onset. Indomethacin group: patients received […]

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Contrast Induced Nephropathy!

Is it real? we had this discussion before: Aortic dissection and contrast, Vertebral artery dissection and contrast, any VTE disease and contrast. but what should be our target GFR, Cre? American College of Radiology onContrast Media in 2015 “At the current time, there is very little evidence that IV iodinated contrast material is an independent […]

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