Latest Articles
- Postoperative pulmonary complications: risk assessment, prevention, and treatment
Preoperative pulmonary function testing is needed only in high-risk patients; proper management can decrease the risk.
- A 55-year-old man with chronic liver disease and coagulation abnormalities
Assessing the effect of cirrhosis on coagulation and preventing perioperative bleeding: a self-test
- The internist as consultant
Ways internists can improve their effectiveness in evaluating patients, managing surgical complications and communicating with referring physicians.
- Evaluating cardiac risk in noncardiac surgery patients
The history, examination, and resting EKG are the cornerstone of cardiac risk assessment, but new techniques are available for questionable cases.
- Acute dissection of the aorta: options for diagnostic imaging
Although medical therapy should be started as soon as dissection of the aorta is suspected, new imaging methods help confirm the diagnosis.
- Coronary heart disease in African Americans: primary and secondary prevention
How physicians can help improve the cardiovascular health of their black patients, who have a high level of CHD risk factors.
- The endoscope and infection transmission: the problems and how to avoid them
Effective protocols for cleaning and disinfecting endoscopes.
- An update on prostate cancer
The diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer, including the role of screening and treatment strategies for localized and advanced tumors.
- Evaluating unexplained syncope with upright tilt testing
A review of this problematic technique for diagnos ing vasovagal syncope and recommendations for its use.
- Use of old and new oral 5-aminosalicylic acid formulations in inflammatory bowel disease
Sulfasalazine, a 5-ASA agent, is the anti-inflammatory agent of choice for ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease. Newer delayed-release formulations can also be appropriate first-line agents.