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ST-segment depression and T-wave inversion: Classification, differential diagnosis, and caveatsKnowing the characteristic patterns is critical for a timely diagnosis of life-threatening disorders.
- Immune thrombocytopenia: No longer ‘idiopathic’
Once regarded as idiopathic, immune thrombocytopenia is now understood to involve both accelerated platelet destruction and impaired platelet production.
- How to manage type 2 diabetes in medical and surgical patients in the hospital
Many patients admitted to the hospital have diabetes mellitus—diagnosed or undiagnosed—and others develop hyperglycemia from the stress of hospitalization.
- Subphrenic abscess from a perforated duodenal ulcer
A 55-year-old man presents after 3 weeks of sharp epigastric pain radiating to the right upper quadrant, fever, and generalized weakness.
- Statin myopathy: A common dilemma not reflected in clinical trials
When a patient taking a statin complains of muscle aches, is he or she experiencing statin-induced myopathy or some other problem? Should the statin be discontinued?
- The pain of cholesterol-lowering therapy
It seems that everyone “knows” that statins cause muscle pain, including many patients with hypercholesterolemia.
- Iron therapy and infection (March 2011)
Readers comment on iron therapy and infection (March 2011), and managing bloodstream infections (January 2011).