Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . One of the most difficult things we ever have to tell a patient is: “You are not a good candidate for LASIK.” ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Current anticoagulant or antiplatelet use is not necessarily a contraindication for administering tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) to a stroke patient in the emergency department, a ...

I have a kidney donor (living-related) who has mild asymptomatic proteinuria on his routine urine analysis; otherwise, all other findings are normal. Is this considered a contraindication for renal ...

In medicine, the term 'contra' means against and the term 'indication' is used for a valid reason for taking a particular test, medicine or procedure. So, contraindication basically means against a ...

As such there is no absolute contraindication to the administration of anesthetic agents. There however exist some conditions where it is not advisable to give the full concentration of the drug. High ...