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- Building-related illness and sick building syndrome: from the specific to the vague
Building-related illness, in which an identifiable factor causes a specific illness, is less common than sick building syndrome, in which there is no identifiable cause for nonspecific symptoms.
- The shifting etiologies of lobar hemorrhage
Better treatment of hypertension is changing the type of intracranial hemorrhages physicians most often see.
- Detecting and preventing ventricular remodeling after MI
Infarct expansion after an MI carries a poor prognosis. Thrombolysis prevents early left ventricular dilatation by attenuating infarct expansion. A full-color illustration compares the effects of early reperfusion, late reperfusion, and no reperfusion.
- What primary care physicians should know about the toxicityof cancer chemotherapy
Although symptomatic side effects of chemotherapy reduce a patient’s quality of life, organ-system effects are potentially more serious.
- A 30-year-old woman with headache
On the basis of the clinical picture and laboratory data, what is the most likely diagnosis?
- Adult vaccinations: a short review
Recommended use of vaccines against pneumococcal pneumonia, influenza, hepatitis A and B, varicella, measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, and diphtheria.
- A 34-year-old woman with odynophagia and weight loss
On the basis of the clinical picture and laboratory data, what is the most likely diagnosis?