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- Labetalol and other agents that block both alpha- and beta-adrenergic receptors
A review of how these agents can be used in managing difficult-to-control hypertension.
- Durability of bipolar coaxial endocardial pacemaker leads compared with unipolar leads
Bipolar coaxial leads are preferable to unipolar leads in most aspects. Yet survival of bipolar coaxial leads in long-term follow-up studies seems worse than that of unipolar leads, indicating the need to reevaluate the risk-benefit ratio of the coaxial design.
- Ovarian cancer update: management challenges and advances
Suspicion of ovarian cancer is especially important when working up postmenopausal women with vague abdominal complaints or a palpable ovary.
- Diagnostic evaluation of the patient with coronary artery disease
Evaluation of patients with possible CAD involves balancing conflicting considerations, such as test sensitivity and accuracy, cost, and access.
- Enteropathic arthritis
A brief overview of intestinal diseases associated with arthropathy, including ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, dysentery, and Whipple’s disease.
- Management of kidney stones: how new technology has affected the indications for intervention
Now that stones can be treated noninvasively on an outpatient basis, intervention is often less expensive and more humane than to "wait and see."
- Issues in the diagnosis and management of malignant disease
Introduction to a new regular series of succinct reviews of cancer care relevant to non-oncologists.
- Glycemic control and complications of diabetes mellitus: practical implications of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT)
The DCCT results provide new impetus to find better ways to achieve near-normal glycemia.