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- Dyspnea after treatment of recurrent urinary tract infection
Glucose-6 phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency is an X-linked disorder that can present as hemolytic anemia after infection or exposure to certain medications.
- More than skin-deep
The patient had oral ulcers, a truncal rash, and blistering lesions on his hands, all of which had been getting worse for 9 months.
- Hepatocellular carcinoma: Options for diagnosing and managing a deadly disease
Because early diagnosis improves the chances of survival, it is important to identify patients who would benefit from surveillance.
- Another perspective: Reducing the overtreatment of pneumonia
Needed are better and faster ways to diagnose pneumonia and find the cause.
- Peripheral opacity on plain chest radiography
Sometimes, careful observation can detect unusual signs of a common and serious condition.
- A practical approach to prescribing antidepressants
Although antidepressant drugs do not differ much in their efficacy, a particular drug may be a better choice in a given patient.
- Antisynthetase syndrome: Not just an inflammatory myopathy
With its variety of clinical presentations, it should be in the differential diagnosis for patients with unexplained interstitial lung disease.
- The overdiagnosis of pneumonia
We are hospitalizing more patients with “pneumonia,” but it has not improved outcomes.
- An uncommon syndrome makes us reflect on our approach to diagnosis
Antisynthetase syndrome reminds us to stay grounded in the fundamentals of clinical care: careful listening, purposeful examination, and directed use of tests.
- Is anticoagulation appropriate for all patients with portal vein thrombosis?
No. The decision is complex and depends on whether the thrombosis is acute or chronic and on other factors.