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- 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.
- The hemodynamic effects of adrenergic blocking agents
Alpha-1 blockers may suit patients with active life-styles, peripheral vascular disorders, or high blood-cholesterol levels, while beta blockers are useful in tachycardia, palpitations, or angina pectoris. An overview of the pharmacologic qualities and numerous clinical applications of these agents.
- Mental status changes in an immunocompromised patient
A young patient with Burkitt’s lymphoma and acute lymphoblastic leukemia was found unarousable following 3 days of forgetfulness and expressive nominal aphasia.
- Assessing New Techniques in Coronary Angioplasty
A cardiologist describes how two new techniques were integrated into everyday practice.
- Quality of life assessment by patients with inflammatory bowel disease
Patients evaluated their quality of life on a questionnaire designed to more accurately reflect treatment outcome and to act as a tool for quality assurance assessment.
- The changing face of the AIDS epidemic
HIV infection in women; bone marrow aspiration and biopsy in HIV infection; septic arthritis and HIV infection; current demographics of AIDS in the United States; common CNS infections in AIDS.