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- Osteoarthritis: No cure, but many options for symptom relief
For most patients, management options consist of nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapy Disease-modifying drugs may be on the horizon.
- Vaginitis: Finding the cause prevents treatment failure
To diagnose and manage vaginitis, there is no substitute for performing a physical and microscopic examination.
- Diabetic gastropathy: A practical approach to a vexing problem
A stepwise approach can improve symptoms and quality of life while providing adequate nutrition.
- Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: How to manage it, how to avoid it
What to do when heparin paradoxically causes the very problem it is given to prevent.
- Long-term medical complications of heart transplantation: Information for the primary care physician
Caring for heart-transplant recipients is a team effort, and primary care physicians play a key role.
- Rosacea: An update
Early diagnosis and thoughtful management help control the disease and minimize discomfort and emotional distress.
- What is the appropriate initial dose of corticosteroids to treat giant cell arteritis?
A lower dose than traditionally used may be enough to control symptoms and prevent blindness while minimizing adverse effects.
- Maximizing antihypertensive management in the elderly
A checklist of specific considerations when treating hypertension in the elderly.
- Fibrinolytic therapy in the elderly: Making sense of troubling new findings
Do patients older than 75 years with acute MI benefit from fibrinolytic therapy? For now, we have to live with uncertainty.
- New options for untreatable coronary artery disease: Angiogenesis and laser revascularization
Angiogenesis and laser revascularization may help the growing group of patients who have run out of other options.