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- Fungal nail infection: Assessing the new treatment options
Newer antifungal agents are more effective and better tolerated than older agents.
Polycystic ovary syndrome: Pathogenesis and treatment over the short and long termPCOS can lead to serious sequelae such as endometrial or ovarian cancer, diabetes mellitus, and coronary artery disease.
- Thyrotoxicosis and the cardiovascular system: Subtle but serious effects
One should suspect thyrotoxicosis in patients with palpitations, tachycardia, exercise intolerance, or dyspnea on exertion.
- Relieving migraine pain: Sorting through the options
Even with effective treatments, including new drugs in convenient dosage forms, the key is still a good working patient-physician relationship.
- New guidelines: What to do about an unexpected positive tuberculin skin test
With tuberculosis declining in prevalence, the focus is shifting to testing only persons at increased risk.
- Update on the diagnosis and treatment of human papillomavirus infection
Genotyping can distinguish viral subtypes that pose a high risk for cancer, but current therapies do not reliably eradicate the virus, and warts and neoplasia often recur after treatment.
- Gallbladder disease: An update on diagnosis and treatment
Current diagnostic techniques and treatments offer results equal to or better than those of earlier methods, are less invasive, and allow patients to recover faster.
- A truly deadly quartet: obesity, hypertension, hypertriglyceridemia, and hyperinsulinemia
The best available treatment is to control one’s weight, exercise regularly, stop smoking, and eat a healthy diet.
- Emphysema in nonsmokers: Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency and other causes
The 10% of patients with emphysema who never smoked deserve a workup for its less common causes, including genetic risk modifiers and occupational exposures.
- Lumbar canal stenosis: Start with nonsurgical therapy
We have to live with some uncertainty in diagnosing and treating lumbar canal stenosis.
