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- Differentiating Among Renal Stones
Recognizing the signs and symptoms of each type of renal stone disease provides clues to the underlying metabolic derangement and enables prompt intervention to reduce the chance of recurrence.
- When and Why to Consider Estrogen Therapy
Estrogen replacement therapy in postmenopausal women reduces the risk of osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease. Yet only 14% of postmenopausal women who could benefit from estrogen therapy are receiving it.
- Contemporary Considerations in Exercise ECG Testing
Despite the promises of new technologies, ECG use is increasing and its clinical applications are diversifying.
- Trends in Noncardiac Chest Pain
The prognosis for patients with noncardiac chest pain is excellent, yet functional outcome is generally poor because many patients continue to believe their pain has a cardiac source.
- Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction
Recent advances in the understanding of the syndrome of chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction facilitate diagnosis and treatment of specific subsets of patients.
- Assessing New Techniques in Coronary Angioplasty
A cardiologist describes how two new techniques were integrated into everyday practice.
- A Mimic of Vasculitis
Of the many disorders that imitate vasculitis, one is particularly challenging to the diagnostician and produces significant patient morbidity and mortality.
- Treating Respiratory Infections in HIV-Positive Patients
In HIV-positive patients, respiratory infection symptoms can usually be treated or at least suppressed, but the clinical response may be obscured.
- Antimicrobial Resistance in Neisseria Gonorrhoeae
Many of the N gonorrhoeae strains seen today are impervious to the relatively inexpensive drugs advocated for primary treatment in earlier years.
- Managing Three Common Oncologic Emergencies
Spinal cord compression, superior vena cava syndrome, and hypercalcemia are tumor-related emergencies clinicians need to watch for in patients with malignancy.