Imaging
- It takes a village to care for the patient with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
The primary care physician can play key roles in diagnosis, referral, and long-term management.
- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: A complex disease
Most people who carry its mutations are never affected, but, rarely, some patients die suddenly at a young age.
- Hidden lesion easily missed on chest radiography
Chest radiography showed an opacity behind the heart, and CT angiography revealed it to be an aortic aneurysm.
- Musculoskeletal ultrasonography basics
Ultrasonography is emerging as a core method to evaluate musculoskeletal problems.
- Musculoskeletal ultrasonography has arrived
With its many advantages, it has become a mainstay in many subspecialities.
- Gallstones: Watch and wait, or intervene?
Consider laparoscopic cholecystectomy for symptomatic cholelithiasis, expectant management for asymptomatic cases.
- 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.
- Ascites from intraperitoneal urine leakage after pelvic radiation
Six years earlier, the patient had undergone hysterectomy and chemoradiotherapy for cervical cancer.
- Which test for CAD should be used in patients with left bundle branch block?
CT angiography is the fi rst-line test in those under 65; for older patients there are SPECT and dobutamine echocardiography.
- A 75-year-old with abdominal pain, hypoxia, and weak pulses in the left leg
Workup revealed the patient had both arterial and venous thrombosis. What was the cause?