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- Daytime sleepiness: When is it normal? When to refer?
Daytime sleepiness has potentially serious consequences and should be investigated like any other symptom. With an algorithm for office evaluation.
- Avoiding adverse drug effects in elderly patients
A working knowledge of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics pays off in avoiding adverse drug effects in vulnerable patients.
- Rheumatologie manifestations of HIV-1 and HTLV-I infections
HIV, the new great mimic, is protean in its clinical manifestations, which can include rheumatologic syndromes.
- Pelvic inflammatory disease: The importance of aggressive treatment in adolescents
PID and its major sequelae of tubal scarring, chronic pelvic pain, and infertility are preventable if physicians diagnose it early and treat it aggressively. With an illustration explaining why adolescents are at greater risk for PID.
- Managing solitary pulmonary nodules
The goals of management are to resect malignant tumors while avoiding unnecessary thoracotomy of benign nodules. But sometimes this is not easy.
- Infectious disease and transplantation: Messages for the generalist
With more patients receiving transplants and surviving longer afterward, their primary care physicians are called on to evaluate problems as they arise.
- The connection between chronic fatigue syndrome and neurally mediated hypotension
Some research indicates that some patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have abnormal vasovagal or vasodepressor responses to upright posture. But subsequent studies have not corroborated these results.
- Group a Streptococcal Necrotizing Fasciitis
Appropriate management of this life-threatening infection requires rapid recognition, immediate antibiotic therapy, and expeditious surgical debridement or excision.
- Diagnosing and treating depression in primary care patients: Looking beyond physical complaints
Depression is common, but often overlooked because patients with depression often present with somatic complaints rather than psychological ones.
- Thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke: Update on the beginning of a revolution
With t-PA used to treat ischemic stroke, acute stroke is a medical emergency similar to a myocardial infarction.