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- Strategies to prevent progression of renal disease
Reviewing current theories of how renal disease develops and progresses and how to prevent or slow the process.
- A lung-transplant recipient with infiltrates
Questions and answers on the visible signs of diseases.
- Changing patterns of morbidity and mortality in HIV disease
With the success of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) come new problems.
- The Mustt Trial
Implantable defibrillators, but not antiarrhythmic drugs reduce the mortality rate in MI survivors at high risk.
- Aggressive treatment of dyslipidemia: A review of supporting evidence
Evidence from clinical trials supports the aggressive treatment of dyslipidemia with statins.
- What is a practical approach to outpatient evaluation of diarrhea in a previously healthy, middle-aged patient?
The approach depends on the duration of the diarrhea and the presence of other symptoms.
- Multiple sclerosis: The importance of early recognition and treatment
New treatments can slow the course of MS, and should be started early. Primary care physicians play an important role in diagnosing MS and managing its complications.
- Heart failure disease management: A team approach
To treat heart failure effectively you need a team and you need a plan. In short, you need a program.
- Radiofrequency ablation of the pulmonary veins: Can it stop atrial fibrillation at its source?
Atrial fibrillation appears to originate in the pulmonary veins; ablation could be a cure.