More articles from Review
- 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.
- Syncope: Etiology and diagnostic approach
There are three major types: neurally mediated, orthostatic, and cardiac. The goal is to rule out structural heart disease.
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome: Implications of recent studies
A review of the new definition of this disease and new important studies of ventilatory and nonventilatory therapies.
Caring for women with HIV: Unique needs and challengesFertility, pregnancy, contraception, and aging must be taken into account.
- Diabetes therapy and cancer risk: Where do we stand when treating patients?
Several classes of diabetes drugs are under scrutiny for potentially promoting cancer in a population already at risk.
- When patients on target-specific oral anticoagulants need surgery
Until evidence-based guidelines are developed, clinicians will have to apply their knowledge of pharmacology.
- Managing snoring: When to consider surgery
If conservative measures fail, a variety of surgical procedures are designed to keep the airway open during sleep.
- Hand, foot, and mouth disease: Identifying and managing an acute viral syndrome
This is typically a benign childhood infection—except when it isn’t so benign or when it occurs in an adult.
- The protein-sparing modified fast for obese patients with type 2 diabetes: What to expect
Committed patients can lose weight and control their diabetes, but they need encouragement and close supervision.
- Radon and lung cancer: Assessing and mitigating the risk
Radon exposure is the second most common cause of lung cancer, but the evidence so far does not support screening for lung cancer in people exposed to it.
