More articles from Review
- Pelvic inflammatory disease: The importance of aggressive treatment in adolescents
PID and its major sequelae of tubal scarring, chronic pelvic pain, and infertility are preventable if physicians diagnose it early and treat it aggressively. With an illustration explaining why adolescents are at greater risk for PID.
- Infectious disease and transplantation: Messages for the generalist
With more patients receiving transplants and surviving longer afterward, their primary care physicians are called on to evaluate problems as they arise.
- Managing solitary pulmonary nodules
The goals of management are to resect malignant tumors while avoiding unnecessary thoracotomy of benign nodules. But sometimes this is not easy.
- The connection between chronic fatigue syndrome and neurally mediated hypotension
Some research indicates that some patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have abnormal vasovagal or vasodepressor responses to upright posture. But subsequent studies have not corroborated these results.
- Group a Streptococcal Necrotizing Fasciitis
Appropriate management of this life-threatening infection requires rapid recognition, immediate antibiotic therapy, and expeditious surgical debridement or excision.
- Diagnosing and treating depression in primary care patients: Looking beyond physical complaints
Depression is common, but often overlooked because patients with depression often present with somatic complaints rather than psychological ones.
- Thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke: Update on the beginning of a revolution
With t-PA used to treat ischemic stroke, acute stroke is a medical emergency similar to a myocardial infarction.
- Agitated dementia: Drug vs nondrug treatment
An individualized approach to identify and treat the cause of the agitation is more effective than simply prescribing neuroleptic drugs.
- Oxygen and aerosolized drug delivery: Matching the device to the patient
The many devices for administering supplemental oxygen and aerosolized drugs allow physicians to individualize therapy, but choosing the right device presents challenges. With color illustrations showing how each device operates.
- Commonly asked questions about premenstrual dysphoric disorder
Most women experience PMS to some degree, and to most it is a nuisance at worst. However, some women have a severe variety of PMS called premenstrual dysphoric disorder that can disrupt their lives.