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- Which bowel preparation should be used for colonoscopy in patients who have had bariatric surgery?
The authors routinely use low-volume (2-L) polyethylene glycol preparations in split-dose regimens.
- Pharmacotherapy for obesity: What you need to know
Weight-loss drugs are not magic pills, but they can help when used along with diet, exercise, and other lifestyle changes.
- Fighting the reflux reflex
We should think twice when making a clinical diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux disease.
- Optimizing diagnostic testing for venous thromboembolism
A thoughtful approach to diagnosing venous thromboembolism and screening for thrombophilic disorders.
- Parsimonious blood use and lower transfusion triggers: What is the evidence?
Cumulative data have confi rmed the safety of a conservative approach to transfusion.
- Whether to anticoagulate: Toward a more reasoned approach
The patient’s life expectancy and personal preferences are important and affect the decision.
- Pseudo-Wellens syndrome after heavy marijuana use
Acute marijuana intoxication is associated with reversible changes in the P and T waves and ST segments.
- Porcelain heart in a uremic patient
Constrictive pericarditis due to secondary hyperparathyroidism occurs in up to 4% of patients with end-stage renal disease.
- Another complication of cirrhosis
A patient with cirrhosis presents with acute abdominal pain and shock.