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- The search for precision
The day may come soon when we get EMR alerts if we try to prescribe certain drugs to patients with certain gene variants.
- A young man with hypertension and hypokalemia
At presentation, his blood pressure was 184/154 mm Hg, and his serum potassium level was 3.1 mmol/L.
- Correction
The article, “Fever in a traveler returning from Ethiopia,” by Ken Koon Wong, MD (Cleve Clin J Med 2020; 87(1):31–42; doi:10.3949/ccjm.87a.19017) contained an error in Table 7.
- Sigmoid volvulus: Coffee bean sign, whirl sign
A 79-year-old man with cortical cerebellar atrophy presented with progressive abdominal distention and constipation.
- Pharmacogenomics: An evolving clinical tool for precision medicine
More than 90% of patients are thought to carry at least 1 genetic variant that should prompt a change in dosing or medication.