Table of Contents
From the Editor
- Trench foot, jungle rot, and now, Baghdad boil
Those of us in civilian practice need to pay attention to specific problems of our returning troops, so we can expeditiously deal with them in our offices and clinics.
Editorial
- Could cardiac CT revolutionize the practice of cardiology?
Using computed tomography, physicians could move away from determining “probability” to establishing a definitive diagnosis of coronary artery disease.
Im Board Review
- Nonhealing skin lesions in a sailor and a journalist returning from Iraq
The differential diagnosis of chronic ulcerative or nodular skin lesions in returned personnel is broad.
Review
- A clinician’s guide to managing Helicobacter pylori infection
A physician must choose carefully which patients to test, because widespread treatment is neither justified clinically nor cost-effective.
- CT of the heart: Principles, advances, clinical uses
Computed tomography has become a standard test for aortic dissection and pulmonary embolism, and it has great potential for assessing coronary artery disease. We review its principles and its uses in cardiovascular medicine.
- New cervical cancer screening strategy: Combined Pap and HPV testing
Women age 30 and older can undergo combined Papanicolaou (Pap) and human papillomavirus (HPV) testing every 3 years instead of Pap testing alone every year, according to several professional societies.
- Overactive bladder: Evaluation and management in primary care
An algorithm can help detect and manage this common problem.
Patient Information
- Issues in anticoagulant therapy: Recent trials start to answer the tough questions
Three cases—an idiopathic deep venous thrombosis, a pulmonary embolism in a cancer patient, and scheduled surgery in a patient with a mechanical heart valve—introduce discussions of how evidence can be incorporated into clinical practice.