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- Visceral angioedema due to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor therapy
If a middle-aged woman taking an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor presents with abdominal pain and emesis, the differential diagnosis should include this uncommon but serious complication.
A practical guide to prostate cancer diagnosis and managementScreening, diagnosis, and management of prostate cancer can be complicated, with no clear consensus about key issues. Our approach refl ects the guidelines from the American Urological Association.
- Coadministration of clopidogrel and proton pump inhibitors (January 2011)
A reader comments on the interaction between clopidogrel (Plavix) and proton pump inhibitors (January 2011).
- Managing newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation: Rate, rhythm, and risk
Treatment focuses on controlling the heart rate, preventing thromboembolic events, and, depending on symptoms, restoring and maintaining sinus rhythm.
- Gene-based, rational drug-dosing: An evolving, complex opportunity
Pharmacogenomics promises the opportunity to match the right drug and dose to the right patient. We are not there yet, but the day is coming.
- Nausea, vomiting, and panic attacks in a 50-year-old woman
Six months ago she started to have panic attacks that roused her from sleep. Lately, they have become more frequent and more severe. What is the cause?
- Pharmacogenomics for the primary care provider: Why should we care?
Personalized medicine promises to improve the quality and lower the cost of care if physicians integrate into practice useful new findings, such as information gleaned from pharmacogenomic testing.
- Ending LGBT invisibility in health care: The first step in ensuring equitable care
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals experience health care disparities that will be eliminated only if clinicians elicit information in a thoughtful, nonjudgmental way.
- Leukemia cutis
This condition occurs in 10% to 15% of patients with acute myeloid leukemia and is a poor prognostic sign.