PROS and CONS in general medicine and geriatrics, 2020

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Domenico Cucinotta

Keywords

general medicine, geriatrics, PROS and CONS

Abstract

In 2020 many researches were published concening non Covid pathologies. In the field of general medicine and geriatrics a look is given to oxygen therapeutic use, soft surgical treatments of benign prostatic hyperplasia, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis treatment, use of SGLT2 inhibitors in cardiac failure and a proposal for treatment of severe claudicatio intermittens.

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