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- How to assess and counsel the older driver
Suggesting that a patient stop driving is never easy, yet taking no action may have deadly consequences.
- The B-type natriuretic peptide assay: A rapid test for heart failure
This 15-minute test is highly sensitive and fairly specific and is useful in evaluating suspected heart failure in outpatients and in emergency care.
- Hereditary hemochromatosis: A common, often unrecognized, genetic disease
Although hereditary hemochromatosis is one of the most common genetic diseases affecting people of northern European descent, it is underdiagnosed.
What is the best diagnostic approach when pheochromocytoma is suspected?First prove there is catecholamine overproduction, then obtain an MRI to locate the tumor.
- Oncologic emergencies for the internist
The complications the general internist is most likely to see and can least afford to miss.
- Hereditary hemochromatosis: Molecular genetic testing issues for the clinician
A DNA test exists, but who should be tested?
- Advances in treatment of chronic hepatitis C: ‘Pegylated’ interferons
New formulations of interferon alfa that incorporate polyethylene glycol in the drug molecule are an important advance in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C.
- Tired, aching, ANA-positive: Does your patient have lupus or fibromyalgia?
Do not rely on the antinuclear antibody test to make the distinction between fibromyalgia and lupus.
- Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis: Prompt diagnosis preserves organ function
The chief dangers from idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis— ureteral obstruction with loss of renal function, and other organ involvement—are avoidable and treatable with prompt diagnosis.
