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- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: A complex disease
Most people who carry its mutations are never affected, but, rarely, some patients die suddenly at a young age.
- Infective endocarditis: Refer for expert team care as soon as possible
Infectious endocarditis needs multidisciplinary care. if surgery is indicated, it is best done sooner.
- How soon should patients with infective endocarditis be referred for valve surgery?
Refer sooner rather than later if the patient has heart failure, uncontrolled infection, or embolic risk.
- Genitourinary syndrome of menopause: Common problem, effective treatments
Half of all postmenopausal women experience these symptoms. Most do not seek relief.
- Eyes of the mimicker
A 42-year-old man presented with intermittent fevers, rigors, headache, and myalgia, and now, one-sided vision loss.
- The algorithm less traveled
At Bellevue, the RPR was a routine test; at the University of Pennsylvania not so much—it all depends on context.
- Understanding the tests we order: Comments and an invitation
Some new laboratory tests go through a life cycle, first being used by subspecialists and then by physicians everywhere.
- A 71-year-old woman with shock and a high INR
She presents with an acute change in mental status, blood pressure 80/40 mm Hg, pulse 130, INR 6.13.
- Gas under the right diagphragm (February 2018)
Errors occurred in Matsuura H, Hata H. Gas under the right diaphragm. Cleve Clin J Med 2018; 85(2):98–100.