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- A woman with headache and blurred vision
She has non-small-cell lung cancer and patchy symmetrical areas of subcortical edema in the posterior parietal and occipital lobes of the brain. What is the most likely diagnosis?
- Vascular disease: It’s not just the pipes
The management of patients with venous and arterial vascular disease keeps getting more complex.
- Respiratory tract infections: Another reason not to smoke
Patients who smoke need to be informed about the benefits of being vaccinated and stopping smoking.
- Optimizing outcomes in pregnant women with epilepsy
Risks can be minimized with preconception planning, careful obstetric care, and close postpartum follow-up.
- Update in thrombosis: Answers to perplexing questions
How long should patients receive warfarin? Is less-intense therapy as effective as standard therapy? When is the risk of recurrence highest? Do mutations increase the risk of recurrence?
- Is a pound of prevention better than an ounce of prevention?
With statins, should we “start low and go slow” or adopt a new paradigm?
- Statins: The case for higher, individualized starting doses
We’re not getting our patients’ low-density lipoprotein cholesterol down to goal levels. We would do better by starting at a higher dose if the patient has a higher baseline level.
- Managing short bowel syndrome: Making the most of what the patient still has
Eating and drinking are better than parenteral nutrition.
Auto-positive end-expiratory pressure: Mechanisms and treatmentThis common problem in mechanical ventilation increases the work of breathing, worsens gas exchange, and decreases cardiac output.