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- Psychiatric symptoms of dementia: Treatable, but no silver bullet
Your 84-year-old patient’s son is distraught. “I know Mom has dementia, but I don’t understand why she cannot relax. Please give her a pill.”
- Identifying and classifying myocardial infarctions
In this issue of the Journal, Drs. Shaun Senter and Gary Francis discuss the power of electrocardiographic changes and creatine kinase-MB and troponin elevations in diagnosing acute myocardial infarction. These are not perfect tests.
- Unilateral cotton wool spots: An important clue
The patient has sudden loss of vision in one eye and unilateral cotton wool spots on funduscopy. What is the cause?
- The radiologic workup of a palpable breast mass
The discovery of a breast mass is a common occurrence, and it is distressing for any woman. The choice of initial imaging study is most often guided by the patient’s age.
- Cancer and clots: All cases of venous thromboembolism are not treated the same
Idiopathic venous thromboembolism can be the first sign of cancer, although how extensively one should search for cancer in these cases is not clear.