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Tilt-table testing
If you have syncope, your doctor may order a tilt-table test to determine why the blood flow is decreased and how to treat it.
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Updated guidelines on cardiovascular evaluation before noncardiac surgery: A view from the trenches
The purpose is not to get clearance for surgery but to evaluate the patient’s medical status and risk of complications.
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Perioperative medicine: Combining the science and the art
Although we may wish for “cookbook” guidelines, often we must practice the “art” of medicine.
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Identifying statin-associated autoimmune necrotizing myopathy
Unlike simple myalgia or myositis, this condition can persist or even arise de novo after the statin is stopped.
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A 41-year-old man with abdominal pain
His symptoms and imaging findings suggested an infarction in the spleen, but what caused the infarction?
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Is antibiotic treatment indicated in a patient with a positive urine culture but no symptoms?
Some groups should be screened and treated, eg, pregnant women and patients undergoing an invasive urologic procedure.
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When does an adult with headaches need central nervous system imaging?
Without red-flag symptoms, central nervous system imaging is unwarranted and may be harmful.
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Sarcoidal infiltration of tattoos
Corticosteroid treatment resulted in clinical improvement after 3 months.
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Ebola—lessons still to be learned
So far, the disease has barely touched our country, but it has had a big impact on our health care system and our national psyche.
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Ebola virus: Questions, answers, and more questions
The clinical virology of Ebola virus, the reported proposed treatments, and an overview of the current outbreak.