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- A tropical souvenir not worth picking up
The patient recently returned from a beach resort in Jamaica and now has a painful rash on her foot. What is it?
- Surrogate markers are not ‘one-size-fits-all’
Blood glucose is a good marker of diabetes. Not so with bone density as a marker of osteoporosis.
- When do common symptoms indicate normal pressure hydrocephalus?
The symptoms of normal pressure hydrocephalus—abnormal gait, cognitive impairment, and urinary dysfunction—are common in elderly patients. How can this rare condition be distinguished from other diseases, and how can it be determined if a patient is likely to benefit from a ventriculoperitoneal shunt?
- Side effects of antidepressants: An overview
Noncompliance with antidepressant treatment remains worrisome. Educating and reassuring patients about potential side effects promotes effective treatment.
- Assessing the risk of surgery in patients with liver disease
All liver disease is not the same, and neither is all surgery, but recent studies have defined objective criteria for determining when surgery is safe for patients with liver disease.
- Do thiazolidinediones cause heart failure? A critical review
Although these drugs cause fluid retention, they may have benefits in patients with heart failure. This article outlines how to monitor for and manage side effects.
- ‘Just listen to the patient’
Sometimes our patients really do tell us exactly what they have, if we listen with a prepared mind.
- A young woman withan eroded plaque on the hand
She has a painful, inflamed eroded plaque at the previous site of an intravenous catheter. She is afebrile, and blood cultures and tissue cultures are negative.
- The optimal revascularization strategy for multivessel coronary artery disease: The debate continues
In contrast to previous studies, a study from a large New York registry found that mortality rates were lower among patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) than among similar patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). What are we to believe?