The Neurologic Screening Exam

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PART 17: Neurologic Disorders SECTION 1 DIAGNOSIS OF NEUROLOGIC DISORDERS 437 Approach to the Patient with Neurologic Disease Daniel H. Lowenstein, Joseph B. Martin, Stephen L. Hauser   Neurologic diseases…

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Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging: Echocardiography, Nuclear Cardiology, and Magnetic Resonance/Computed Tomography Imaging

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269e   Atlas of Electrocardiography Ary L. Goldberger The electrocardiograms (ECGs) in this atlas supplement those illustrated in Chap. 268. The interpretations emphasize findings of specific teaching value. All of the…

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Fever of Unknown Origin

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PYROGENS The term pyrogen (Greek pyro, “fire”) is used to describe any substance that causes fever. Exogenous pyrogens are derived from outside the patient; most are microbial products, microbial toxins,…

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Wilson’s Disease

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Molecular Defects     More than 90% of patients clinically classified as having MFS by the “Ghent criteria” have a mutation in the gene for fibrillin-1 (FBN1). Mutations in the same gene are…

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