Infectious Diseases
- Assessing liver fibrosis without biopsy in patients with HCV or NAFLD
Biopsy is still the gold standard, but methods based on clinical information and on imaging are emerging.
Breast augmentation surgery: Clinical considerationsThe evolution of breast implants, their complications, and key considerations with regard to aesthetic breast surgery.
- Repeating blood cultures after initial bacteremia: When and how often?
Repeating blood cultures after an initial positive result is superfluous except in certain situations.
- Follow-up blood cultures are often needed after bacteremia
Without follow-up cultures, the adequacy of treatment can be difficult to assess.
- Managing malignant pleural effusion
Depending on the circumstances, options are observation, thoracentesis, an indwelling catheter, and chemical pleurodesis.
- Emphysematous cystitis
The patient had fallen in her home and remained on the floor for 2 days until neighbors heard her cries and called 911.
- Rapidly progressive pleural effusion
A 33-year-old nonsmoker presents with severe pleuritic chest pain; the differential diagnosis is broad.
- A new reason to reconsider that antibiotic prescription: The microbiome
Prescribing an antibiotic is a far more complicated and long-lasting affair than most of us thought.
- Our missing microbes: Short-term antibiotic courses have long-term consequences
Is the rise in chronic diseases due to loss of microbial diversity?
- Influenza update 2018–2019: 100 years after the great pandemic
A centennial year update on immunization, epidemiology, transmission, and treatment of influenza.
