Table of Contents
Medical Grand Rounds
- Ultrasound and alendronate: New tools for osteoporosis screening and treatment
Ultrasound should make osteoporosis easier to diagnose, and alendronate should make it easier to treat.
Editorial
- Enthusiasm for ultrasound for osteoporosis screening is premature
Ultrasound shows promise for osteoporosis screening, but before the medical community embraces it, many questions need to be answered.
Internal Medicine Board Review
- Upper gastrointestinal bleeding in a 41-year-old woman
What is the likely cause of this patient’s symptoms? A self-quiz on a clinical case.
Medicine in the News
- Hepatitis C update: Implications of the blood transfusion “lookback”
In the coming years, physicians will have to inform up to 300,000 blood recipients that they may have contracted hepatitis C.
Current Drug Therapy
- Lipid formulations of amphotericin B
New lipid formulations of amphotericin B are less nephrotoxic and can he given in higher doses than standard formulations, but improved efficacy has not been proved. With an illustration explaining the pharmacokinetics of these preparations.
Heart Failure Update
- Our new understanding of heart failure: The role of beta-blockers in treatment
Beta-blockers can stop the downward spiral of heart failure by improving the biology of the myocyte. With an illustration showing the abnormal remodeling process in heart failure.
Review
- Rheumatologie manifestations of HIV-1 and HTLV-I infections
HIV, the new great mimic, is protean in its clinical manifestations, which can include rheumatologic syndromes.
