June 2007 20 6 Issue of Cortlandt Forum

June 2007 20 6 Issue of Cortlandt Forum

Quick Digest

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Drug Updates from MPR

 
 
 

We’ve Got Answers

Combining diabetes meds

Can you combine an α-glucosidase inhibitor with a dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV) inhibitor?
 
 

Pressure pointer

Applying pressure for about 10 seconds with the tip of your finger or knuckle to the area you are about to inject will decrease the ...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Pop Quiz

 

Cover Feature

Stents: What you now need to know

Once hailed as a breakthrough in the care of heart disease, stents have been in the news and in the crosshairs of skeptics. Here's what ...
 

Clinical Feature

 

Dermatologic Look-Alikes

 

Diagnostic Challenge

Coincidence or medical

One therapy alleviated our patient's allergy and arthritis.
 

Diagnostic Challenge: The Geriatric Patient

First, joint and muscle pains, then blindness

Symptoms relieved by prednisone flared when the drug was tapered.
 

Practical Prevention

 

Dermatology Dx

Facial papules and truncal macules accompanied by seizures

A 13-year-old male requested treatment of multiple erythematous facial papules, 1-2 mm in diameter. The lesions first appeared when he was 5 years old and ...
 

Asymptomatic netlike red-brown patch on the lower back

The patient was a 52-year-old white man with no significant past medical history who presented to the dermatology clinic for evaluation of an asymptomatic reticulated ...
 

Summertime exacerbations of scaly pink areas of roughness

A 35-year-old white man complained of scaly pink "rough spots" on his shins. The patient denied pruritus and pain. However, he disliked the appearance of ...
 

A Most Unusual Case

"Well, you don't have an ear infection..."

I was a resident when I met the healthy-looking man in his 50s who complained that he had just "gone deaf" in his left ear ...
 

Stat Consult

 

Medicine and the Law

Malpractice: Even experts are vulnerable

A risk-management consultant had his day in court—as a defendant—when he apparently didn't follow his own rules.
 

Guidelines at a Glance

Reducing the risk of heart disease in women over a lifetime

Newly updated guidelines refine some older recommendations and totally discard others.
 
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