Vascular Injury to the Kidney
339 Polycystic Kidney Disease and Other Inherited Disorders of Tubule Growth and Development Jing Zhou, Martin R. Pollak The polycystic kidney diseases are a group of genetically heterogeneous disorders and…
Cardiovascular Collapse, Cardiac Arrest, and Sudden Cardiac Death
OVERVIEW AND DEFINITIONS Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is defined as natural death due to cardiac causes in a person who may or may not have previously recognized heart disease but…
Disorders of Lipoprotein Metabolism
419 Diabetes Mellitus: Complications Alvin C. Powers Diabetes-related complications affect many organ systems and are responsible for the majority of morbidity and mortality associated with the disease. Strikingly, in…
Azotemia and Urinary Abnormalities
Other classes exhibit antiemetic properties. 5-HT3 antagonists such as ondansetron and granisetron can prevent postoperative vomiting, radiation therapy–induced symptoms, and cancer chemotherapy–induced emesis, but also are used for other causes…
Bronchiectasis
310 Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis and Pulmonary Infiltrates with Eosinophilia Praveen Akuthota, Michael E. Wechsler HYPERSENSITIVITY PNEUMONITIS INTRODUCTION AND DEFINITION Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP), also referred to as extrinsic allergic alveolitis, is…
Cystic Fibrosis
310 Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis and Pulmonary Infiltrates with Eosinophilia Praveen Akuthota, Michael E. Wechsler HYPERSENSITIVITY PNEUMONITIS INTRODUCTION AND DEFINITION Hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP), also referred to as extrinsic allergic alveolitis, is…
Infectious Complications of Burns
FIGURE 164-3 Coronal fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) magnetic resonance image from a patient with herpes simplex encephalitis. Note the area of increased signal in the right temporal lobe (left side of…
Chronic Hepatitis
Hepatitis B Until 1982, prevention of hepatitis B was based on passive immunoprophylaxis either with standard Ig, containing modest levels of anti-HBs, or hepatitis B immunoglobulin (HBIG), containing high-titer anti-HBs. The…
Migraine and Other Primary Headache Disorders
447 Migraine and Other Primary Headache Disorders Peter J. Goadsby, Neil H. Raskin The general principles around headache as a cardinal symptom are covered elsewhere (Chap. 21); here we…
