More articles from Medical Grand Rounds
- Heart failure: Highlights from new consensus guidelines
For the first time, we have the means to halt the progression of heart failure and reduce mortality—if we intervene early enough.
- The threat of bioterrorism: A reason to learn more about anthrax and smallpox
Both smallpox and anthrax could be used as biological weapons. Physicians should reacquaint themselves with these diseases.
- Minimizing the risk of NSAID-induced GI bleeding
As many people die of NSAID-induced bleeding as die of AIDS. Physicians should prescribe these drugs more selectively, and advise patients to limit their use of over-the-counter products.
- Palliative care: Clinical approach to chronic pain and intestinal obstruction
Oral medications should control pain in up to 80% of patients with terminal cancer. Yet, many patients receive inadequate pain treatment.
- Evidence-based medicine in everyday practice
A step-by-step guide to using evidence to answer specific questions, with the answers guided by the patient's wishes and values.
- Transplantation without immunosuppression: What the future may hold
Findings in noncompliant allograft recipients may ultimately allow transplant recipients to avoid taking immunosuppressive drugs long-term.
- How to use low-molecular weight heparin for outpatient management of deep vein thrombosis
Outpatient use of low-molecular weight heparins requires careful planning and patient education. This article features an algorithm used at the Cleveland Clinic.
- AIDS update 1999: Viral reservoirs and immune-based therapies
Recent discoveries have dampened optimism for a cure, though they suggest new avenues of research.
- Resuscitating the exercise stress test
Old does not necessarily mean obsolete. The exercise stress test can still provide useful information, provided we ask the right questions.
- Angioedema: Frightening and frustrating
The dramatic swelling of angioedema develops in minutes to hours. Often, no cause is apparent.