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Which medications should be held before a pharmacologic or exercise stress test?This depends on the reason for the rest, whether the patient can safely do without the medication, and the type of test.
- Update on kidney transplantation: Increasing clinical success, expanding waiting lists
Success rates are improving, but the need for organs continues to far exceed the supply.
- Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: A common but mystifying cause of heart failure
In most cases, dilated cardiomyopathy has no known That shouldn’t stop you from looking for one.
- Drug smuggling raises medical and legal issues
Smugglers are swallowing massive amounts of cocaine packaged in balloons or condoms. The treatment is controversial. And then there are ethical and legal questions.
- A young man with hyperthermia and new-onset seizures
What is the cause of this patient’s symptoms? A self-test.
- A 25-year-old woman with hemiparesis and a solitary brain lesion
What is the cause of this patient’s symptoms? A self-test.
- Functional health illiteracy: What patients don’t know can hurt them
Patient education has become a discipline in itself, and physicians need to take better advantage of it.
