Atlas of Liver Biopsies
363 Alcoholic Liver Disease Mark E. Mailliard, Michael F. Sorrell Chronic and excessive alcohol ingestion is one of the major causes of liver disease. The pathology of alcoholic liver disease…
Hypertensive Vascular Disease
Criteria for Acute Myocardial Infarction The term acute myocardial infarction (MI) should be used when there is evidence of myocardial necrosis in a clinical setting consistent with acute myocardial ischemia….
Percutaneous Coronary Interventions and Other Interventional Procedures
Criteria for Acute Myocardial Infarction The term acute myocardial infarction (MI) should be used when there is evidence of myocardial necrosis in a clinical setting consistent with acute myocardial ischemia….
Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock
PART 12: Critical Care Medicine SECTION 1 RESPIRATORY CRITICAL CARE 321 Approach to the Patient with Critical Illness John P. Kress, Jesse B. Hall The care of critically ill…
Approach to the Patient with Critical Illness
PART 12: Critical Care Medicine SECTION 1 RESPIRATORY CRITICAL CARE 321 Approach to the Patient with Critical Illness John P. Kress, Jesse B. Hall The care of critically ill…
Intraabdominal Infections and Abscesses
In patients with subacute presentations, fever is typically low-grade and rarely exceeds 39.4°C (103°F); in contrast, temperatures of 39.4°–40°C (103°–104°F) are often noted in acute endocarditis. Fever may be blunted…
Rabies and Other Rhabdovirus Infections
PREVENTION AND ERADICATION OF POLIOVIRUS (See also Chap. 148) After a peak of 57,879 cases of poliomyelitis in the United States in 1952, the introduction of IPV in 1955 and…
Skin Manifestations of Internal Disease
TREATMENT METABOLIC ACIDOSIS Treatment of metabolic acidosis with alkali should be reserved for severe acidemia except when the patient has no “potential HCO3–” in plasma. Potential [HCO3–] can be estimated…
Relapsing Polychondritis
389 Relapsing Polychondritis Carol A. Langford Relapsing polychondritis is an uncommon disorder of unknown cause characterized by inflammation of cartilage predominantly affecting the ears, nose, and laryngotracheobronchial tree. Other manifestations…
