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- Recurrence, remission, and relapse of seizures
Drug treatment after a first seizure reduces the risk of recurrence by about half, but many patients find the adverse effects intolerable.
- Hepatic toxicity of antirheumatic drugs
Drug treatment of rheumatic diseases is associated with a small but well-documented risk of hepatotoxicity. Recognizing the clinical syndromes associated with liver injury by these agents facilitates the minimization of morbidity from this complication.
- Endocrine causes of impotence
Since 5% to 10% of impotence cases may have an endocrine component, the workup for impotence should consider endocrine disorders, which can be diagnosed readily with laboratory tests and, in the majority of patients, can be cured.
- Mortality of patients transferred to a tertiary care hospital
A look at the effect of transfers on patient outcome and on hospital mortality statistics, and how superficial review of these statistics could lead to mistaken conclusions about the quality of hospitals to which patients are transferred.