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- What is the best way to determine if thrombocytopenia in a patient on multiple medications is drug-induced?
The only way is to stop the suspected drug and see if the thrombocytopenia resolves. But how to avoid stopping needed drugs that are not a problem?
- How to use nesiritide in treating decompensated heart failure
Nesiritide, a recombinant formulation of BNP, is the first new parenteral drug in more than a decade to be approved for treating heart failure.
- How to assess and counsel the older driver
Suggesting that a patient stop driving is never easy, yet taking no action may have deadly consequences.
- The B-type natriuretic peptide assay: A rapid test for heart failure
This 15-minute test is highly sensitive and fairly specific and is useful in evaluating suspected heart failure in outpatients and in emergency care.
- Hereditary hemochromatosis: A common, often unrecognized, genetic disease
Although hereditary hemochromatosis is one of the most common genetic diseases affecting people of northern European descent, it is underdiagnosed.
What is the best diagnostic approach when pheochromocytoma is suspected?First prove there is catecholamine overproduction, then obtain an MRI to locate the tumor.
- Oncologic emergencies for the internist
The complications the general internist is most likely to see and can least afford to miss.
- Chronic tension-type headache: Advice for the viselike-headache patient
About 3% of people complain of daily viselike headaches without associated symptoms. Therapy consists of tricyclic antidepressants, biofeedback, and stress management, although solid data are lacking.
- Halting the progression of heart failure: Finding the optimal combination therapy
Recommendations on how to find the optimal combination of agents that can slow the progression of heart failure while minimizing side effects.
