Infectious Diseases
- Dermatomyositis-related interstitial lung disease mimicking COVID-19 pneumonia
A subtype of myositis with characteristic skin rashes and ulcers, amyopathic or hypomyopathic symptoms, and rapidly progressive ILD.
- An 86-year-old man with unexplained right-sided headache and vision loss
Steroid treatment for suspected giant cell arteritis brought no improvement in vision or headache severity.
- Shedding light on subungual digital mucous cysts
Transillumination is a quick and easy way to diagnose digital mucous cysts and rule out other subungual masses.
- Eruptive seborrheic keratosis: A perilous clue
An abrupt increase in seborrheic keratoses in patients with an underlying malignancy is called the Leser-Trélat sign.
- ‘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.