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- STI update: Testing, treatment, and emerging threats
Fast, sensitive molecular diagnostic tests that use self-collected samples may help bend the upward curve of STIs.
- Low-dose steroids for acute exacerbations of COPD in a non-ICU setting: Worth consideration
Despite the guidelines, most patients still receive high intravenous doses for acute exacerbations.
- A complication of enoxaparin injection
Computed tomography revealed a hematoma measuring 15 by 15 cm compressing the bladder and causing hydronephrosis.
- Myopathy for the general internist: Statins and much more
How to evaluate and manage muscle complaints in patients taking a statin, interpret creatine kinase test results, and recognize common as well as potentially dangerous myopathies.
- A few pearls can help prepare the mind
The caregiver with a prepared mind is more likely to experience the diagnostic epiphany.
- Diabetes management: Beyond hemoglobin A1c
Other factors include cardiovascular benefit, weight control, hypoglycemia risk, and cost.
- ACE inhibitor and ARB therapy: Practical recommendations
Inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system are cornerstones of therapy of cardiovascular disease.
- ACE inhibitors and ARBs: Managing potassium and renal function
Concern about hyperkalemia and a decline in renal function has led to underuse of these drugs.
- Mediastinal granuloma due to histoplasmosis in a patient on infliximab
Immunosuppressive drugs can predispose to invasive fungal infection.
- Pseudo-Ludwig angina
A woman on heparin developed a hematoma on the floor of her mouth that threatened to block her airway.