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- Aortic valve replacement: Options, improvements, and costs
How aortic valve disease is managed continues to evolve. Issues include outcomes and costs.
- Functional anatomy of the facial nerve revealed by Ramsay Hunt syndrome
Facial paralysis in association with a rash on the ear, tongue, or hard palate reflects geniculate zoster and requires immediate antiviral treatment.
- Appreciating Asperger syndrome: Implications for better care and outcomes
The behavior of an Einstein, Ford, Edison, or Beethoven might lead to a diagnosis of Asperger syndrome today.
- Mild cognitive impairment: Challenges in research and in practice
Mild cognitive impairment is now a clinical reality seen by all practitioners dealing with older patients.
- The stethoscope as metaphor
The humanities—and bedside skills—ought to be a fundamental part of medical education. The alternative is a future full of technicians with tricorders, but sorely lacking in healers.
- The promise of renal denervation
Only with further carefully conducted randomized trials of renal denervation will its full promise be realized.
- Challenges in the management of aortic stenosis
Unfortunately, physicians who manage aortic stenosis do not encounter straightforward classic cases very often.
- Cardiovascular implantable electronic device infection: A complication of medical progress
As more of these devices are placed in older and sicker patients, more infections can be expected.
- Bronchial thermoplasty: A promising therapy, still in its infancy
Inflammation is not the only pathophysiologic process underlying asthma. Bronchial thermoplasty takes a novel approach and offers reason for optimism.
- Pharmacogenomics for the primary care provider: Why should we care?
Personalized medicine promises to improve the quality and lower the cost of care if physicians integrate into practice useful new findings, such as information gleaned from pharmacogenomic testing.