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- Patients with challenging behaviors: Communication strategies
Having a plan to deal with difficult personality types leads to better communication and outcomes—and less stress.
- Thrombotic microangiopathies: Similar presentations, different therapies
Effective management depends on prompt diagnosis and targeted therapy.
- Understanding the bell-ringing of concussion
Back in the day, if we could count the coach’s fingers, we could go back into the game. Now we are more attuned to injury.
- Caring for international patients November 2016
Readers comment on caring for international patients (November 2016) and on acid-base disorders (January 2017).
- Reproductive planning for women after solid-organ transplant
Pregnancy can succeed, but patients must wait at least a year. Until then, meticulous contraception is mandatory.
- Which patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease should undergo liver biopsy?
Patients should undergo biopsy to guide management and prognosis if suspected of having steatohepatitis or fibrosis.
- Diabetes control during Ramadan fasting
For diabetic patients, fasting during Ramadan can cause wide fluctuations in blood sugar levels.
- Big heart, small ring
A 58-year-old man has stopped wearing his wedding ring, and his wife suspects him of having an extramarital affair.
- Fungal organisms in the brain (February 2017)
Readers comment on fungal organisms in the brain (February 2017).
Cardiopulmonary exercise testing: A contemporary and versatile clinical toolIt has a class I recommendation for evaluating dyspnea of uncertain cause and in candidates for heart transplant.