Latest Articles
- 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.
- Alternative medicine: Underevaluated or ineffective?
Ignorance of what our patients are taking is not bliss.
- Giant cell arteritis: Biopsy may not be diagnostic
Biopsy of suspected giant cell arteritis may he diagnostic in only 50% of cases.
- The high cost of terminal care: Balancing conflicting goals
In caring for patients at the end of life, physicians are often torn hy conflicting goals.
- 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.
- Diagnosing Marfan syndrome is still based on clinical characteristics
Despite new genetic findings, the best way to diagnose Marfan syndrome is still the classic clinical findings.
- 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.
- A 29-year-old man with abnormal thyroid function tests
The patient has elevated serum T4 and T3, but no symptoms of hyperthyroidism. What is the diagnosis?
- What internists should know about amiodarone
Despite side effects involving the lungs, heart, thyroid, and other organs, amiodarone is effective in the treatment of refractory atrial and ventricular arrhythmias, and it has unique safety in coronary disease and left ventricular dysfunction.