Health Recommendations for International Travel
According to the World Tourism Organization, international tourist arrivals grew dramatically from 25 million in 1950 to >1 billion in 2012. Not only are more people traveling; travelers are…
Ataxic Disorders
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…
IgG4-Related Disease
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…
Diphtheria and Other Corynebacterial Infections
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,…
Paraneoplastic Neurologic Syndromes and Autoimmune Encephalitis
120e Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Gauri R. Varadhachary, James L. Abbruzzese Carcinoma of unknown primary (CUP) is a biopsy-proven malignancy for which the anatomic site of origin remains unidentified…
Hyperbaric and Diving Medicine
PART 19: Disorders Associated with Environmental Exposures 476e Altitude Illness Buddha Basnyat, Geoffrey Tabin EPIDEMIOLOGY Mountains cover one-fifth of the earth’s surface; 38 million people live permanently at altitudes…
Hypoxia and Cyanosis
FIGURE 44-3 Acute epiglottitis. In this lateral soft tissue radiograph of the neck, the arrow indicates the enlarged edematous epiglottis (the “thumbprint sign”). TREATMENTEPIGLOTTITIS Security of the airway is always of…
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….
