Infectious Diseases
- ‘Guidelines to Practice’ series: Asthma in adults
A clinically useful summary, highlighting the practical and newer conceptual aspects of the guidelines.
- Fever, rash, pruritus: Sweet syndrome
The patient received intramuscular and oral antibiotics at an urgent care center, but the symptoms worsened.
- Outpatient management of asthma in adults: A snapshot of the 2020 GINA report
A review of the guidelines, with a focus on what’s new and clinically important.
- Evolving distal signs
The patient’s evolving signs and symptoms prompted a reconsideration of his diagnosis.
- Famous and not-so-famous physical findings in infectious endocarditis: A look back
It is difficult to find a disease more emblematic of the practice of internal medicine.
- New bullous lesions in a 72-year-old woman
Her history included psoriasis, chronic lower-extremity edema, and hypertension.
- Medical complications of bulimia nervosa
Complications can affect all body systems, but especially the renal and electrolyte systems.
- COVID-19: An unwelcome guest that won’t leave
Long-lasting economic and societal effects, and lingering post-infection symptoms.
- Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection: Caring for the ‘long-haulers’
An estimated 10% of COVID-19 survivors continue to experience symptoms weeks to months after symptoms appear.
- What is causing the ‘long-hauler’ phenomenon after COVID-19?
We are still early in our understanding of COVID-19 and its many manifestations.