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Archive of Didactics in General Internal Medicine

Sep 19 2017

Reduced Cardiovascular and Renal Events with Canaglifozin (CANVAS + CANVAS-R)

EBM, Journal Club

Presented by Alex Zhornitskiy, M.D.

Moderated by Vinhfield Ta, M.D.

Thank you, Alex, for a review of outcome data for one of the newest diabetes medications: canaglifozin (Invokana®).  Canaglifozin is a SGLT2 inhibitor, which decreases reabsorption of glucose in the renal tubules. Clinical Question: Among patients with DM2 at high risk…

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Sep 05 2017

Time-to-Furosemide Treatment and Mortality in Patients Hospitalized with Acute Heart Failure

EBM, Journal Club

Presented by Stephanie Wang, M.D.

Moderated by Matthew McCullough, M.D.

Key Discussion Points: Early treatment of acute heart failure with loop diuretics lowers mortality despite initial mortality risk, and this treatment strategy might be even more effective in high-risk AHF patients Earlier treatment/identification of acute heart failure relied heavily on…

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