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- Group a Streptococcal Necrotizing Fasciitis
Appropriate management of this life-threatening infection requires rapid recognition, immediate antibiotic therapy, and expeditious surgical debridement or excision.
- Asymptomatic hypercalcemia in a 51-year-old woman
What is the likely cause of this patient’s hypercalcemia? A self quiz on a clinical case.
- Diagnosing and treating depression in primary care patients: Looking beyond physical complaints
Depression is common, but often overlooked because patients with depression often present with somatic complaints rather than psychological ones.
- Radiographic findings in Paget’s disease of bone
Often Paget’s disease of bone is asymptomatic and is detected during radiograph or laboratory testing for another complaint.
- Antimicrobial resistance: An ecological approach to a growing threat
Instead of confidently awaiting the next generation of antibiotics to conquer antibiotic resistance, physicians must take a humbler view. With an illustration explaining how bacteria acquire resistance.
- Primary biliary cirrhosis: Ursodiol effective, but think transplantation sooner
Ursodiol may slow the progression of primary biliary cirrhosis, but treatment is still mainly palliative, and liver transplantation is the only definitive therapy.