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- A rash on the legs and palms
The patient has been treated with topical and oral corticosteroids with no improvement. What is the most likely diagnosis?
- Does vitamin D deficiency play a role in the pathogenesis of chronic heart failure? Do supplements improve survival?
Vitamin D deficiency may play a role in the pathogenesis of chronic heart failure, but whether giving patients supplements improves their survival is not clear.
- Preventing and treating orthostatic hypotension: As easy as A, B, C
Easy-to-remember management recommendations, using a combination of effective drug and nondrug treatments.
- Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation: Increasing use in acute care
How this mode has evolved, and its indications and contraindications in specific acute care conditions.
- Vaccine update 2010: Keeping up with the changes
Changes and additions to the vaccination schedule for children, adolescents, and adults.
- The pretravel visit: A ‘teaching moment’
Often, a pretravel visit is also a good time to introduce concepts of preventive health to patients who might not otherwise be accessible or amenable.
- Giant nodules on the hands
A 78-year-old man with hyperuricemia treated with allopurinol presents with asymptomatic nodules on both hands. What is the most likely diagnosis?
Risks of travel, benefits of a specialist consultBefore going abroad to risky areas, most people ought to visit their primary care physicians, and many should be referred to a specialist in travel medicine.
- Bony bridge of a bifid rib
A 21-year-old man presents with 3 days of cough and hemoptysis. A chest x-ray reveals a congenital anomaly.
- The Courvoisier sign
A 60-year-old woman has had jaundice, dark-colored urine, and light-colored stools for the past several days. On examination, her gallbladder is palpable.