Infectious Diseases
- In Reply: COVID-19 coagulopathy
An attempt to balance the potential risks and benefits of intensified prophylaxis.
- Double the reasons for giving the flu vaccine in 2020
Limiting the impact of other diseases, possibly including COVID-19.
- COVID-19 and flu: Dual threat, dual opportunity
Measures to combat COVID-19 can minimize the impact of flu, and vice versa.
- Does my healthy 65-year-old patient still need the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13)?
The short answer is no—but it is not that simple.
- Recognition and management of respiratory co-infection and secondary bacterial pneumonia in patients with COVID-19
Consider the presentation and trajectory of illness.
- Convalescent plasma for COVID-19: Promising, not proven
The evidence is suggestive but weak. Trials are ongoing.
- Verrucous plaques on the face, dysphagia, and limb weakness
An itchy bump on the upper lip rapidly grew and spread.
- Miliary tuberculosis in a patient with end-stage liver disease
Chest radiography showed patchy left basilar consolidation with subtle, diffuse interstitial opacities.