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Doppler echocardiography is emerging as an excellent noninvasive way to assess diastolic function, and its array of clinical applications is expanding.
- Annular pancreas and intermittent duodenal obstruction in an alcoholic adult
This congenital condition, in which pancreatic tissue encircles the middle portion of the duodenum, may not cause symptoms until adulthood, as was the case in this 49-year-old man.
- Sleep in the patient with lung disease
How to recognize and manage the ill effects that sleep-related respiratory changes can have on underlying lung disease, including COPD, asthma, and interstitial lung disease.
- Survivors of sudden cardiac death: a rational approach to evaluation and therapy of patients surviving ventricular fibrillation
A strategy for identifying underlying disease, stratifying the risk of recurrence, and formulating specific therapy in these patients, at high risk for life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias.