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- Skin lesions: when to suspect systemic causes
Systemic diseases that can produce skin lesions cover a spectrum that includes autoimmune, neoplastic, and infectious disease.
- Futile medicai treatment and patient consent
What are a physician’s ethical responsibilities when a patient or surrogate demands futile life-saving treatment?
- Selective bowel decontamination with quinolones and nystatin reduces gram-negative and fungal infections in orthotopic liver transplant recipients
This regimen was found highly effective in reducing early serious infection in 17 consecutive patients.
- Highlights from medical grand rounds
Recent evidence from long-term studies contradicts the perception that rheumatoid arthritis is slowly progressive, relatively benign, and readily controlled with monotherapy.
- Monoamine oxidase inhibitors and elective surgery
This retrospective study of 32 patients challenges the notion that use of these agents is a contraindication for elective surgery.