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A brief overview of intestinal diseases associated with arthropathy, including ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, dysentery, and Whipple’s disease.
- Management of kidney stones: how new technology has affected the indications for intervention
Now that stones can be treated noninvasively on an outpatient basis, intervention is often less expensive and more humane than to "wait and see."
- Endocrine causes of impotence
Since 5% to 10% of impotence cases may have an endocrine component, the workup for impotence should consider endocrine disorders, which can be diagnosed readily with laboratory tests and, in the majority of patients, can be cured.
- Tales of a Gypsy Doc: perspectives on social and medical aspects of care of the American Gypsy Population
Understanding a patient’s culture and outlook is critical to any doctor-patient interaction, but perhaps especially so when dealing with the Gypsy population.
- Menopause: managing the associated risks
Menopause is an excellent time to reassess a female patient’s health habits and the need for health maintenance measures.
- Transesophageal echocardiography: usefulness increasing
This dramatic cardiac imaging technique is proving valuable in the operating room and the intensive care unit, as well as in the echocardiography laboratory.
- Irritable bowel syndrome: new perspectives on management
Long classified as psychosomatic, irritable bowel syndrome is now considered a motor disorder in which a number of factors are at play.
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Although a cure has not been found, certain drugs can relieve symptoms and may actually slow disease progression.
- A Strategy for the Syncope Workup
Without a carefully planned workup, time and money will be wasted before the patient receives appropriate therapy.