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- Isradipine in the treatment of hypertension: a clinical profile
A new calcium channel blocker is safe, well tolerated, and has long-term antihypertensive efficacy regardless of age or race, with no adverse effects on lipids, carbohydrate tolerance, or renal function.
- Outcome Improving for Lung Transplant Patients
Survival rates following lung transplantation may approach 90% by the end of the century, thanks to improved graft preservation and immunosuppressive therapy.
- Pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous emphysema during laparoscopy
Pneumomediastinum and massive subcutaneous emphysema developed during a diagnostic and operative laparoscopy with laser fulguration of endometriosis.
- Recognition and Treatment of Cocaine Abuse
The changing demographics of cocaine abuse and its varied manifestations require a high index of suspicion for timely diagnosis and treatment.
- Key Steps in Evaluating the Dizzy Patient
A carefully constructed history is usually adequate to diagnose vertigo from other forms of dizziness.
- The electrocardiogram in remote myocardial infarction: reassessment of criteria
Specificity and positive predictive accuracy are more important than sensitivity in clinical electrocardiographic diagnosis.
- Visual compromise in the diabetic patient
The importance of an aggressive approach to diagnosis, management, and follow-up of diabetic retinopathy cannot be overstated.
- Pharmacology and use of headache medications
Successful headache treatment depends on correlating the pathophysiology of the disease with drug pharmacology.