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It is most common in patients with renal impairment, can be life-threatening, and requires a multidisciplinary approach.
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H pylori infection is an infectious disease and should be treated like one, with due consideration of resistance.
- ERAAs for menopause treatment: Welcome the ‘designer estrogens’
These drugs stimulate estrogen receptors in some tissues and inhibit them in others, enabling tailored treatment.
- Combined hormonal contraceptives and migraine: An update on the evidence
These contraceptives are contraindicated in women who have migraine with aura, but benefit vs risk is debatable.
- Parsimonious blood use and lower transfusion triggers: What is the evidence?
Cumulative data have confi rmed the safety of a conservative approach to transfusion.
- Life after breast, prostate, and colon cancer: Primary care’s role
When patients survive cancer, they eventually come back to their primary care physician—with special needs.
- Apps and fitness trackers that measure sleep: Are they useful?
In general, they have major shortcomings and limited utility.
- Concussion: Evaluation and management
Initial therapy involves several days of cognitive and physical rest, then a gradual return to activities.
- Cardiopulmonary exercise testing: A contemporary and versatile clinical tool
It has a class I recommendation for evaluating dyspnea of uncertain cause and in candidates for heart transplant.
- Hypoglycemia after gastric bypass: An emerging complication
Post-gastric bypass hypoglycemia arises late and is probably more common than initially thought.