<div id="article-content-body"><p>The mother of an 8-year-old girl sought medical care for her daughter who had complained of intermittent chest pain for 3 days. The patient denied...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>For the past 3 years, comedones, papules, pustules, and nodules had been erupting on the face of a 16-year-old boy. Acne vulgaris had been diagnosed....
A 59-year-old woman comes to your office for evaluation of her heart murmur.
During the last several months, she has tired more easily and has had less ene
A man with a 15-year history of episodic migraine presents to the emergency department at 5 AM with a right-sided throbbing headache of 4 hours' duration.
By ALEXANDER K. C. LEUNG, MD ANDREW L. WONG, MD C. PION KAO, MD Alberta Children’s Hospital
By ALEXANDER K. C. LEUNG, MDANDREW L....
<div id="article-content-body"><p>Adhesions (A) can form within the peritoneal cavity after abdominal surgery, especially if there is an underlying inflammatory condition such as...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>I found Joe Monroe's Photoclinic case of a patient with dermatitis artefacta very interesting (CONSULTANT,...
Many patients with diabetes have to perform finger sticks—sometimes several times a day—to monitor their glucose levels and adjust medication or insulin dosages.
By BERNARD KARNATH, MD AKUA AGYEMAN, MD ALBERT LAI, MD
By BERNARD KARNATH, MD
AKUA AGYEMAN, ...
Sir William Osler once called pneumococcal pneumonia “the captain of the men of death.”1 Pneumonia is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States and the fourth l
<div id="article-content-body"><p>This disorder occurs in fetal development, when the midgut supplied by the superior mesenteric artery grows too rapidly to be accommodated in the...
This practice should be avoided. Intramuscular triamcinolone acetonide can last for 4 to 6 weeks in the body and can inhibit normal adrenal function. If the injection is given in hip fat tissue, it can...
<p>A 58-year-old man with a history of a seizure disorder was hospitalized with acute-onset shortness of breath immediately following a tonic-clonic seizure. He was afebrile; in respiratory distress;...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>A 3-year Australian study found that when patients who underwent bypass surgery were given coenzyme Q10 for a...
By JESSICA M. GARFIN, MPT Children’s Hospital and Health Center, San Diego
STEVEN R. GARFIN, MD University of California, San Diego
By JESSICA M. GARFIN, MPTChildren’s ...
Low back pain affects up to 80% of
Americans at some point in their lives.1
This common ailment can be mentally
and physically debilitating.
The cause is o
<div id="article-content-body"><p>Concerned about a lesion between her eyes, a 91-year-old woman sought medical evaluation (A). She had not seen a physician for 23 years. Dr Roy T....
In 1978, a ricin-filled pellet—which was injected with a spring-loaded device disguised in an umbrella—was used to assassinate Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov.
Many of the approximately 12.4 million Americans who have cardiovascular disease are not being treated with the most up-to-date risk-reduction therapies.
A 35-year-old woman has been losing weight and has had worsening abdominal pain and fullness for the past 2 months. She denies nausea, vomiting, and fever. Medical history is significant only for asthma. ...
