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- Women’s health update: A literature review impacting primary care
The authors review cardiovascular disease, bone health, breast cancer risk, cervical cancer prevention, postpartum depression, pelvic pain, and emergency contraception.
- Acute anxiety and tachycardia in a hospitalized 59-year-old woman
The patient presented with neck pain, painful swallowing, headache, and fever. She had contracted lymphoproliferative disease after liver transplant. She had stage 3 chronic kidney disease.
- Which ICU patients need stress ulcer prophylaxis?
An examination of the controversy surrounding stress ulcer prophylaxis in critically ill patients, with guidance for its appropriate use in this setting.
- Unraveling a challenging diagnosis: Role of a TNF inhibitor
Painful swelling of the dorsum of the right hand had been diagnosed as chronic cutaneous sarcoidosis with tenosynovitis, treated unsuccessfully with prednisone and methotrexate.
- Nontuberculous mycobacterial musculoskeletal infections: Recognizable, when suspected
Two articles in this issue offer valuable insight into when to suspect these infections in patients who present with swollen, indurated, peripheral soft-tissue structures.
- Appendicitis management: Is it time for a change?
Antibiotic therapy has been a successful alternative to surgery for more than 60 years, but surgery is still the primary treatment.
- Dyspnea and cough in a lung transplant recipient
The patient developed sudden shortness of breath at rest, a decline in home spirometry values, and dry cough and fatigue.
- Chronic anal pain: A review of causes, diagnosis, and treatment
The authors identify and review 3 main diagnostic categories: local causes, functional anorectal pain, and neuropathic pain syndromes.
- Spotty skin pigmentation in Carney complex
Characteristic skin findings and their locations can indicate underlying hereditary lentiginosis syndromes.