GENERAL & FAMILY MEDICINE
Aphasia, Memory Loss, and Other Focal Cerebral Disorders
TREATMENT INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FALLS AND INJURY Efforts should be made to define the etiology of the gait disorder and the mechanism underlying the falls by a…
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
375e Primary Immunodeficiencies Associated with (or Secondary to) Other Diseases Alain Fischer There are an increasing number of conditions in which a primary immunodeficiency (PID) has been described as one…
Abdominal Swelling and Ascites
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…
Fibromyalgia
395 Gout and Other Crystal-Associated Arthropathies H. Ralph Schumacher, Lan X. Chen The use of polarizing light microscopy during synovial fluid analysis in 1961 by McCarty and Hollander and the…
Involuntary Weight Loss
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…
Periarticular Disorders of the Extremities
395 Gout and Other Crystal-Associated Arthropathies H. Ralph Schumacher, Lan X. Chen The use of polarizing light microscopy during synovial fluid analysis in 1961 by McCarty and Hollander and the…
Abdominal Pain
PART 2: Cardinal Manifestations and Presentation of Diseases SECTION 1 PAIN 18 Pain: Pathophysiology and Management James P. Rathmell, Howard L. Fields The province of medicine is to…
Primary Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
12e The Safety and Quality of Health Care David W. Bates Safety and quality are two of the central dimensions of health care. In recent years it has become…
Neuropsychiatric Illnesses in War Veterans
A. Excessive anxiety and worry (apprehensive expectation), occurring more days than not for at least 6 months, about a number of events or activities (such as work or school performance)….
