Louis Kuritzky, MD

As chronic kidney disease progresses, patients may present with comorbidities such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, dyslipidemia, and anemia.

More than 30% of adults in the United States have hypertension, although more of the cases are uncontrolled than are controlled.

This article presents a series of hypothetical case studies that represent some of the more common therapeutic dilemmas that primary care clinicians face in their daily management of patients with T2DM. ...

The advent of a variety of methodologically new antithrombotic agents has provided clinicians with important choices to make when selecting treatments for commonplace syndromes, such as atrial...

For 65 years, warfarin has been widely used as an effective medication in the prevention of venous thromboembolism for a variety of disease states, including atrial fibrillation, as well as for the...

This article provides an overview of acne vulgaris, with a focus on inflammatory and post-adolescent acne, and outlines a framework that primary care physicians can use to effectively treat these patients. ...

LH is a 60-year-old white male with a 10-year history of longstanding hypertension as well as systolic heart failure (sys-HF) with a reduced ejection fraction (EF) of 20%.

As with the decision to initiate or continue warfarin therapy, decisions surrounding bridge therapy are patient-specific and should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

We have recently been following KD, a 58-year-old male who was diagnosed with a first unprovoked deep vein thrombosis (DVT). After completing 3 months of treatment with warfarin, KD elected to continue...

Unprovoked DVT is a term used to describe the occurrence of DVT in the absence of currently recognized triggers, such as surgery, long-haul travel, immobilization, or trauma.