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- Frailty and cardiovascular disease: A two-way street?
Frailty may be both a cause and a consequence of cardiovascular disease.
Detecting and managing device leads inadvertently placed in the left ventricleHow it happens, how to prevent it, how to detect and correct it immediately, and how to manage cases discovered long after.
- Toward understanding chronic kidney disease in African Americans
African Americans respond differently to some treatments than the white male patients who participated in the clinical trials.
- Scapular rash and endocrine neoplasia
A woman in her 30s presents with an itchy skin-colored rash over her scapula of 8 years’ duration.
- Iliopsoas abscess
A 52-year-old woman with diabetes presents with pain in her lower abdomen and back.
- Can effective obesity counseling fit into the 20-minute appointment?
Information from a previsit questionnaire lays the foundation for effective and reimbursable counseling and interventions.
- Obesity counseling: Beyond ‘eat less, move more’
Not all cancers are treated the same, and not all patients with diabetes are treated the same. The same should go for patients with obesity.
- Fever after recent travel
The patient had been taking a TNF-alpha inhibitor and had recently returned from Mexico.
- Abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea in a 32-year-old woman
The patient also has numerous painful ulcerations on her skin and in her mouth.
Chronic kidney disease in African Americans: Puzzle pieces are falling into placeAfrican Americans are disproportionately affected; genetic variants in APOL1 provide an important explanation.