<p>Recently, a well-designed crossover study assessed the risk of thrombosis during long flights.<sup>1,2</sup> Included were persons with such risk factors as factor V Leiden mutation and...
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<p>The term "prehypertension" was introduced in the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>Alopecia was noted on the right anterior scalp of a 53-year-old man who had been hospitalized for jaundice of 2 weeks' duration. The hairs in the...
S. Shane Rabin, BS; Jacob Dudelzak, MD; Jeffrey R. Lee, MD; Daniel J. Sheehan, MD
A 62-year-old man presents with a violaceous, nonpruritic eruption that arose 2 weeks earlier on the hands and feet, including the palms and soles, and spread to the arms and legs.
Seymour Diamond, MD; Alexander Feoktistov, MD, PhD
<p>The patient is a 47-year-old white woman with frequent, intensely painful unilateral or bilateral headaches that occur behind her left eye or temporal area. These headaches cause throbbing pain...
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<p>My patient, in whom allergic rhinitis has been diagnosed, has been receiving weekly allergy shots since June 2003 for allergies to dust, grass,...
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<p>The risk of complications (such as lactic acidosis) that can be associated with metformin increases in patients with renal insufficiency. At what...
Richard A. Harrigan, MD; Theodore Chan, MD; William J. Brady, MD
An 82-year-old man presents with shoulder pain resulting from a fall the day before. He has had intermittent episodes of light-headedness, chest pain, and "flutterings in the chest" over the past...
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<p><em>The recent editorial by David T. Nash, MD, "OTC Statins: Panacea or Pandora's Box?" (CONSULTANT, July 2006, page 845),...
<p><strong>ABSTRACT: Our knowledge of chronic diseases has advanced significantly in recent decades, but patient outcomes have not kept pace. This is largely because the traditional acute care...