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- 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.
- It is not a ‘mini’-stroke, it is a call to action
Although patients may call transient ischemic attacks “mini-strokes,” there is nothing mini about their significance.
- Azithromycin and risk of sudden cardiac death: Guilty as charged or falsely accused?
We need not abandon this drug, but we should see if our patients have risk factors, and take precautions.
Cardiovascular disease in women: Prevention, symptoms, diagnosis, pathogenesisNotable sex differences exist in the underlying mechanisms, presentation, and response to aspirin, statins, and exercise stress.
- Chronic itch on the upper back, with pain
An otherwise healthy man has had itchy, grayish-brown patches on his back for 2 years, characteristic of notalgia paresthetica.
- Which lower-extremity DVTs should be removed early?
This controversial therapy is best considered in cases of proximal deep vein thrombosis in younger patients.
- Transient ischemic attack: Omen and opportunity
A transient ischemic attack (TIA) is often the precursor of stroke. As such, every TIA deserves to be taken seriously.
- Fever, dyspnea, and a new heart murmur
In cases of recurrent persistent fever and a new heart murmur, infective endocarditis must always be considered.
- Biomarkers in the emergency workup of chest pain: Uses, limitations, and future
Cardiac biomarkers are only one piece of the clinical picture, albeit an important one.
- Clinical applications of pharmacogenetics: Present and near future
Pharmacogenetics promises to give clinicians the tools to make treatment decisions based on genetic testing.