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Understanding of its mechanisms is progressing, and treatments are increasingly targeted to the individual etiology.
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There’s nothing more frustrating than not getting credit for work performed.
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Glucocorticoids cause significant bone loss, predominantly affecting trabecular bone, with consequent fragility fractures.
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Many of these complications resolve with treatment and weight gain, but others can lead to permanent damage.
- Liposuction: Concepts, safety, and techniques in body-contouring surgery
In addition to its purely aesthetic uses, liposuction is an important adjunct in reconstructive surgery.
- Aspirin for primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular events
A more limited role for aspirin as primary prevention in patients at intermediate risk, with diabetes, and the elderly.
- Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction with valves: What should the internist know?
For selected patients with emphysema, 1-way valves reduce hyperinflation and are a palliative option.
