Most cited article(s)
- The effect of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs on vaccine immunogenicity in adults
Patients can have variable responses to vaccines, depending on the vaccine and the DMARD.
- Sepsis and septic shock: Guideline-based management
Sepsis requires prompt recognition, appropriate antibiotics, careful hemodynamic support, and control of the source of infection.
- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A manifestation of the metabolic syndrome
As we get heavier, our livers get fattier. Despite an explosion of research on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and gains in understanding its epidemiology and pathogenesis, a number of issues remain unresolved, including how to treat it.
- When patients on warfarin need surgery
How to manage anticoagulation in the perioperative period is controversial; we offer our approach.
- But how many people died? Health outcomes in perspective
Before dispensing advice, we should know the effect of what we recommend on all meaningful outcomes.
- Recognizing and treating diabetic autonomic neuropathy
Strict glycemic control can slow the onset of diabetic autonomic neuropathy and sometimes reverse it. Other treatments address specific symptoms.
- Recent trials of antioxidant therapy: What should we be telling our patients?
Evidence does not support the indiscriminate use of vitamins A, C, or E or beta carotene to prevent or reduce cardiovascular disease.
- Preventing and treating orthostatic hypotension: As easy as A, B, C
Easy-to-remember management recommendations, using a combination of effective drug and nondrug treatments.
- Systemic diseases associated with intermediate uveitis
Multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, thyroid abnormalities, and possible Epstein-Barr virus infection were among the findings in 26 of 83 intermediate uveitis patients.