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- Radiologic imaging in rhinosinusitis
Imaging may be necessary for rhinosinusitis that is refractory, chronic, recurrent, or complicated.
- A world without Vioxx: To COX-2 or not to COX-2?
Are all selective COX-2 inhibitors associated with an increased risk for thromboembolic cardiovascular events? And what should we tell patients?
- Understanding valvular heart disease in patients with systemic autoimmune diseases
Specific systemic autoimmune diseases are associated with distinct valvular heart disorders. Earlier detection and management may prevent some morbidity and mortality.
- Treating osteoporosis in postmenopausal women: A case approach
We now have several agents of different classes for treating postmenopausal osteoporosis. In this paper, a case report serves as the focus for a discussion of the risk factors for postmenopausal osteoporosis and of the available therapies.
- Which adults with acute diarrhea should be evaluated?
Data are scarce, but certain factors call for a more detailed evaluation.
- Hospital management of diabetes: Beyond the sliding scale
Tight glucose control has been shown to improve clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients. The challenge now is implementation.
- Tight inpatient glucose control: Why didn’t we think of this before?
Standardized algorithms to manage chronic diseases such as diabetes in the hospital should get more patients out of the hospital alive.
Drug-eluting stents: The beginning of the end of restenosis?Drug-eluting stents are here, and they are better than ordinary stents. But how much better?
- Drug-eluting stents are here—now what? Implications for clinical practice and health care costs
Many clinical and economic questions remain concerning how to apply these new stents.
- A construction worker with recent confusion, disorientation, and somnolence
What is the cause of this patient’s symptoms: the bump on the head he received at work, or his “occasional” drinking?