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…

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….

PART 7: Oncology and Hematology SECTION 1 NEOPLASTIC DISORDERS   99 Approach to the Patient with Cancer   Dan L. Longo   The application of current treatment techniques (surgery, radiation…

FIGURE 103e-1   Gompertzian tumor growth. The growth fraction of a tumor declines exponentially over time (top). The growth rate of a tumor peaks before it is clinically detectable (middle). Tumor size…

FIGURE 39-5   Hollenhorst plaque lodged at the bifurcation of a retinal arteriole proves that a patient is shedding emboli from the carotid artery, great vessels, or heart. FIGURE 39-6   Central retinal artery…

FIGURE 202-1   Acid-fast bacillus smear showing M. tuberculosis bacilli. (Courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta.) EPIDEMIOLOGY More than 5.7 million new cases of TB (all forms, both…

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…

The mainstay of treatment is adequate rehydration. The treatment of cholera and other dehydrating diarrheal diseases was revolutionized by the promotion of oral rehydration solution (ORS), the efficacy of which…

FIGURE 173-2   Scarlet fever exanthem. Finely punctate erythema has become confluent (scarlatiniform); petechiae can occur and have a linear configuration within the exanthem in body folds (Pastia’s lines). (From Fitzpatrick, Johnson,…

FIGURE 39-5   Hollenhorst plaque lodged at the bifurcation of a retinal arteriole proves that a patient is shedding emboli from the carotid artery, great vessels, or heart. FIGURE 39-6   Central retinal artery…