462e Muscular Dystrophies and Other Muscle Diseases Anthony A. Amato, Robert H. Brown, Jr. Skeletal muscle diseases, or myopathies, are disorders with structural changes or functional impairment of muscle….
Clinical findings, nonmicrobiologic laboratory tests, and chest radiography are not useful for differentiating M. pneumoniae pneumonia from other types of community-acquired pneumonia. In addition, since M. pneumoniae lacks a cell…
135e Less Common Hematologic Malignancies Ayalew Tefferi, Dan L. Longo The most common lymphoid malignancies are discussed in Chap. 134, myeloid leukemias in Chaps. 132 and 133, myelodysplastic syndromes…
135e Less Common Hematologic Malignancies Ayalew Tefferi, Dan L. Longo The most common lymphoid malignancies are discussed in Chap. 134, myeloid leukemias in Chaps. 132 and 133, myelodysplastic syndromes…
449 Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders C. Warren Olanow, Anthony H.V. Schapira, Jose A. Obeso PARKINSON’S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second commonest neurodegenerative…
459 Peripheral Neuropathy Anthony A. Amato, Richard J. Barohn Peripheral nerves are composed of sensory, motor, and autonomic elements. Diseases can affect the cell body of a neuron or…
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…
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…
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…
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…
