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- Patient and spouse acceptance and adaptation to implantable cardioverter defibrillators
Surveys revealed AICD patients and families share a mix of relief and apprehension.
- Diagnostic approach to androgen disorders in women: acne, hirsutism, and alopecia
A simple, cost-effective screening protocol can differentiate whether androgen excess is an ovarian or an adrenal problem.
- Smoking Cessation: Strategies That Work
Most physicians underestimate their power to achieve smoking cessation; the key to success is persistence.
- Mesenteric Ischemia: A Neglected Diagnosis
In the absence of accurate noninvasive diagnostic modalities, aggressive use of mesenteric angiography is the only way to achieve early diagnosis of mesenteric ischemia.
- Clinical diagnoses and EEG interpretation
Factors that lead to different interpretations of the same electroencephalogram and to variations in follow-up diagnostic studies were identified.
- Clinical features of the yellow nail syndrome
A patient displayed the classic symptoms that are diagnostic of this rare cause of exudative pleural effusions.
- Clinical history and visual assessment of diagnostic tests in radiology
The radiologist needs access to the clinical history in order to provide maximum interpretive accuracy.
- The clinical challenge of Lyme disease
A medical curiosity only 10 years ago, Lyme disease is now the most common vector-borne disease in the United States; its diverse manifestations and lack of standardized serologic tests make diagnosis a challenge.