Index by author
Ahmad, Muzaffar
- Lung cancer screening: Is it time for a change in policy?
Whether screening with computed tomography should be adopted remains open to debate, despite two large studies that were recently reported.
Aneja, Ashish
A 58-year-old woman with mental status changesThirty years ago she underwent gastric bypass surgery for obesity. Now she presents with mental status changes, a bicarbonate level of 16 mmol/L, and an anion gap of 15. What is the most likely cause of her acidosis?
Bakhru, Mihir R.
- A 58-year-old woman with mental status changes
Thirty years ago she underwent gastric bypass surgery for obesity. Now she presents with mental status changes, a bicarbonate level of 16 mmol/L, and an anion gap of 15. What is the most likely cause of her acidosis?
Bott-silverman, Corinne
- Heart failure in women is different than in men; should treatment be different?
Studies of heart failure treatment have included mostly men, and the results have been generalized to women even though there are pharmacologic and pathophysiologic differences between the sexes.
Bybel, Bohdan
- Radiologic diagnosis and management of acute lower gastrointestinal bleeding
When colonoscopy gives indeterminate results or cannot be performed, either radionuclide imaging or angiography is indicated.
Hirsch, Sheldon
- A different approach to resistant hypertension
More patients with resistant hypertension could control their blood pressure if physicians would perform a physical examination to determine the hemodynamic mechanism driving the hypertension. More patients would receive diuretics and beta-blockers, and in higher doses.
Hsich, Eileen
- Heart failure in women is different than in men; should treatment be different?
Studies of heart failure treatment have included mostly men, and the results have been generalized to women even though there are pharmacologic and pathophysiologic differences between the sexes.
Kumar, Ajay
- A 58-year-old woman with mental status changes
Thirty years ago she underwent gastric bypass surgery for obesity. Now she presents with mental status changes, a bicarbonate level of 16 mmol/L, and an anion gap of 15. What is the most likely cause of her acidosis?
Mandell, Brian F.
- A defense of apple pie
Vaccination against pneumococcal pneumonia is widely accepted, although we underuse it, and data to support its efficacy are scarce.
Mazzone, Peter
- Lung cancer screening: Is it time for a change in policy?
Whether screening with computed tomography should be adopted remains open to debate, despite two large studies that were recently reported.
