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Recognizing and treating acute stroke, status epilepticus, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and others.
- Approach to asymptomatic creatine kinase elevation
Standard cutoffs may be too low. First, repeat the test after 7 days without exercise.
- Autoantibody-mediated encephalitis: Not just paraneoplastic, not just limbic, and not untreatable
Suspect these syndromes in cases of unexplained seizure, encephalitis, or acute-onset psychiatric syndromes.
- Alcohol withdrawal syndrome in medical patients
Deprived of alcohol while in the hospital, many alcoholic patients go into withdrawal. Clinicians should be ready.
- Managing interstitial lung disease detected on CT during lung cancer screening
How to distinguish among the most common forms, and the role of the primary care physician in managing them.
- Asymptomatic carotid artery disease: A personalized approach to management
Should the patient undergo surgery or just medical care? The decision can be based on age, sex, and life expectancy.
- The new oral anticoagulants: Reasonable alternatives to warfarin
The clinically relevant characteristics of the new agents and guidance on their use.
- Insulin pumps: Beyond basal-bolus
Pumps allow for more accurate dosing than multiple daily injections, resulting in less drastic blood sugar extremes.
- Catheter-based transarterial therapies for hepatocellular cancer
A discussion of these procedures, their complications, and postprocedural care.
- Common infectious complications of liver transplant
The risk and the likely organisms vary with the patient’s state of immunosuppression and the time after transplant.