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- Whether to anticoagulate: Toward a more reasoned approach
The patient’s life expectancy and personal preferences are important and affect the decision.
- Pseudo-Wellens syndrome after heavy marijuana use
Acute marijuana intoxication is associated with reversible changes in the P and T waves and ST segments.
- Porcelain heart in a uremic patient
Constrictive pericarditis due to secondary hyperparathyroidism occurs in up to 4% of patients with end-stage renal disease.
- Reproductive planning for women after solid-organ transplant
Pregnancy can succeed, but patients must wait at least a year. Until then, meticulous contraception is mandatory.
- Which patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease should undergo liver biopsy?
Patients should undergo biopsy to guide management and prognosis if suspected of having steatohepatitis or fibrosis.
- Diabetes control during Ramadan fasting
For diabetic patients, fasting during Ramadan can cause wide fluctuations in blood sugar levels.
- Big heart, small ring
A 58-year-old man has stopped wearing his wedding ring, and his wife suspects him of having an extramarital affair.
- Fungal organisms in the brain (February 2017)
Readers comment on fungal organisms in the brain (February 2017).
- Thrombotic microangiopathies: Similar presentations, different therapies
Effective management depends on prompt diagnosis and targeted therapy.
- Understanding the bell-ringing of concussion
Back in the day, if we could count the coach’s fingers, we could go back into the game. Now we are more attuned to injury.