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- Vaginitis: Finding the cause prevents treatment failure
To diagnose and manage vaginitis, there is no substitute for performing a physical and microscopic examination.
- Diabetic gastropathy: A practical approach to a vexing problem
A stepwise approach can improve symptoms and quality of life while providing adequate nutrition.
- Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia: How to manage it, how to avoid it
What to do when heparin paradoxically causes the very problem it is given to prevent.
- Long-term medical complications of heart transplantation: Information for the primary care physician
Caring for heart-transplant recipients is a team effort, and primary care physicians play a key role.
- What tests are necessary to diagnose Alzheimer disease?
For most patients with dementia, a clinical diagnosis is adequate.
What is the appropriate initial dose of corticosteroids to treat giant cell arteritis?A lower dose than traditionally used may be enough to control symptoms and prevent blindness while minimizing adverse effects.
- Maximizing antihypertensive management in the elderly
A checklist of specific considerations when treating hypertension in the elderly.
- Fibrinolytic therapy in the elderly: Making sense of troubling new findings
Do patients older than 75 years with acute MI benefit from fibrinolytic therapy? For now, we have to live with uncertainty.
- New options for untreatable coronary artery disease: Angiogenesis and laser revascularization
Angiogenesis and laser revascularization may help the growing group of patients who have run out of other options.
- Palliative medicine: Old dogs and new tricks
Some older drugs can be used for off-label indications, to either substitute for or augment the palliative action of approved drugs.
