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- Mechanical cardiac support: Is the bridge a destination when you’re stuck on it?
Mechanical support of the circulation raises myriad problems. Answers will come, but slowly.
- Privacy protection for your patients: Understanding the federal requirements
On April 14, 2003, almost every medical provider in this country must implement new federal privacy rules. Here’s how.
- Improving care of chronic heart failure: Advances from drugs to devices
The right combination of drugs and surgical treatment can improve systolic function and prevent, attenuate, or reverse heart failure.
- Worsening shortness of breath
ECGs from a 58-year-old man with type 2 diabetes who presents to the emergency room with dyspnea.
- What is the appropriate treatment for Dupuytren contracture?
The diseased tissue is either watched with benign neglect or surgically excised.
- Fungal nail infection: Assessing the new treatment options
Newer antifungal agents are more effective and better tolerated than older agents.
- How do you manage a healthy, asymptomatic, 24-year-old with a positive RPR on a premarital blood test?
A positive rapid plasma reagin must be confirmed or refuted, but if the history, physical, and laboratory studies are negative, there is a great chance it was falsely positive.
- Vertebral compression fractures: What time destroys, methylmethacrylate may mend
The sequelae of osteoporosis present numerous clinical challenges; several new surgical options show promise.