Most cited article(s)
- Heart failure in African Americans: Disparities can be overcome
African Americans are disproportionately affected by heart failure, but discrepant outcomes can be minimized.
- Doppler echocardiographic assessment of constrictive pericarditis, cardiac amyloidosis, and cardiac tamponade
Doppler echocardiography is emerging as an excellent noninvasive way to assess diastolic function, and its array of clinical applications is expanding.
- The effect of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs on vaccine immunogenicity in adults
Patients can have variable responses to vaccines, depending on the vaccine and the DMARD.
- Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage: Diagnosing it and finding the cause
Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage can complicate a large number of clinical conditions. It may present in different ways and may be life-threatening, and it poses an important challenge for the clinician.
- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A manifestation of the metabolic syndrome
As we get heavier, our livers get fattier. Despite an explosion of research on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and gains in understanding its epidemiology and pathogenesis, a number of issues remain unresolved, including how to treat it.
- C-reactive protein elevation can be caused by conditions other than inflammation and may reflect biologic aging
CRP elevations are a sensitive test for inflammation, hut are not specific.
- When patients on warfarin need surgery
How to manage anticoagulation in the perioperative period is controversial; we offer our approach.
- Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: A menace to our most vulnerable patients
The emergence of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) highlights the importance of effective antibiotics to maintain the safety of our health care system. Clinicians will encounter CRE as a cause of difficult-to-treat and often fatal infections in hospitalized patients. We review the mechanisms of carbapenem resistance, the dissemination and clinical impact of these resistant organisms, and challenges to their detection, treatment, and control.