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- Update in thrombosis: Answers to perplexing questions
How long should patients receive warfarin? Is less-intense therapy as effective as standard therapy? When is the risk of recurrence highest? Do mutations increase the risk of recurrence?
- Pleural effusions: Evaluation and management
A rational diagnostic workup will reveal the cause in most cases.
- Fever in a returned traveler
Six weeks after returning from Manaus, Brazil, he has recurring symptoms of fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, and malaise. What is the likely diagnosis?
- Managing short bowel syndrome: Making the most of what the patient still has
Eating and drinking are better than parenteral nutrition.
Auto-positive end-expiratory pressure: Mechanisms and treatmentThis common problem in mechanical ventilation increases the work of breathing, worsens gas exchange, and decreases cardiac output.
- Emerging care for type 2 diabetes: Using insulin to reach lower glycemic goals
Experts are advocating earlier, more aggressive treatment of type 2 diabetes.
- Dose-related statin myopathy: Is it an issue?
Higher doses lead to more cases of myopathy, a potentially serious problem. Fortunately, the incidence is very low.