More articles from Review
- Evaluating and managing hypogammaglobulinemia
Patients with frequent and recurrent respiratory infections should be tested for immune system abnormalities. This article describes common primary and secondary forms of hypogammaglobulinemia and how to evaluate and manage them.
- Familial hypercholesterolemia: A challenge of diagnosis and therapy
Many people have high cholesterol, but a distinct minority have extremely high levels due to genetic defects in lipoprotein metabolism. They need our special attention.
- Multiple sclerosis: Advances in understanding, diagnosing, and treating the underlying disease
In spite of setbacks, the future holds hope for patients and clinicians struggling against this disease.
- Diabetes insipidus: Diagnosis and treatment of a complex disease
Diabetes insipidus can be life-threatening, and the treatment depends on the cause in the individual patient.
- Should we screen for abdominal aortic aneurysms?
The short answer is yes, but only in the right patients.
- Contrast-induced nephropathy: How it develops, how to prevent it
The evidence and our recommendations for using hydration, N-acetylcysteine, sodium bicarbonate, theophylline, and hemofiltration.
- Use of corticosteroids in the sepsis syndrome: What do we know now?
Although there is a physiologic rationale for using corticosteroids in sepsis, there are also safety concerns. A definitive trial is under way. This article analyzes the evidence to date and gives the authors personal recommendations.
- Dyslipidemia in HIV patients
HIV can raise lipid levels, and so do the drugs used to treat it. As patients with HIV infection live longer, these non-HIV medical problems become more relevant.
- Renovascular hypertension: Balancing the controversies in diagnosis and treatment
Which patients should undergo testing for renovascular hypertension, and with which test? What are the roles of renal angioplasty and stenting?
- Frailty in older adults: Insights and interventions
We are getting better at systematically predicting who is vulnerable and at understanding the biologic basis of this vulnerability, which should lead to interventions to improve outcomes.

