Tests and screening strategies for the diagnosis of hepatitis C.

abstract：:Primary care physicians must initiate a discussion of overactive bladder and urinary incontinence with their patients who are at risk. A stepwise approach to evaluation and diagnosis and the use of systematic evaluation and treatment algorithms suitable to the primary care setting will improve identification and effec...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Rosenberg MT,Dmochowski RR

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreas transplantation can improve quality of life for patients with type 1 diabetes by eliminating hypoglycemic and hyperglycemic episodes, the need for insulin injections, frequent self-monitoring of blood glucose levels, and dietary restrictions. Increasing evidence suggests that it may slow the progression of lo...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Mayes JT,Dennis VW,Hoogwerf BJ

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tailored care will increasingly become the hallmark of treatment for patients with hypertension in the 1990s. In mildly hypertensive patients, treatment should begin with nonpharmacologic approaches to lower blood pressure and reduce the patient's cardiovascular risk profile. The ever-increasing array of antihypertens...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Vidt DG

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In cases of low back pain, the goal is to detect serious problems and to prevent the pain from becoming chronic by promptly detecting risk factors. The authors lay out a simple, evidence-based approach to low back pain. ...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Bhangle SD,Sapru S,Panush RS

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a serious condition associated with impaired quality of life, depression, drowsy driving and motor vehicle accidents, metabolic disease, and cognitive decline. The mechanisms accounting for OSA and metabolic disease include hypoxia, sleep fragmentation, and systemic inflammation. OSA a...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Walia HK

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although stress-related mucosal damage is common (and potentially serious) in critically ill patients, the risk of clinically significant gastrointestinal bleeding appears to be confined to patients with certain factors: mechanical ventilation, coagulopathy, multiple trauma, increased intracranial pressure, and multio...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Bobek MB,Arroliga AC

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is transmitted through respiratory secretions and saliva. The virus can also live for short periods of time (1 to several hours) on fomites such as doorknobs, handrails, and tables. Aerosolization of the virus can occur during procedures including bronchoscopy, endotracheal ...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Miller R,Englund K

更新日期：2020-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Exercise stress electrocardiography is unreliable as a test for obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) if the patient has left bundle branch block. The authors provide an algorithm for using alternative tests: exercise stress echocardiography, dobutamine echocardiography, computed tomographic (CT) angiography, and ...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Xu B,Cremer P,Jaber W,Moir S,Harb SC,Rodriguez LL

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress echocardiography is a cost-effective and reliable diagnostic test for patients with suspected coronary artery disease. Stress echocardiography should be used in preference to exercise electrocardiography as the primary test in patients with uninterpretable ST segments. It is attractive for use as the primary te...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Marwick T

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is mounting that obstructive sleep apnea causes or contributes to many chronic medical diseases, and that treatment with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) often improves concomitant diseases. The author reviews the association of obstructive sleep apnea with arterial hypertension, pulmonary hypertens...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Collop N

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both diabetic and prediabetic patients have abnormal vascular reactivity and should be considered to have occult cardiovascular disease. Angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are particularly beneficial in diabetes because they reduce the incidence of both cardiovascular events and diabetes-related complicati...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Hsueh WA

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Internet can be useful for physicians, but beginning users are apt to encounter two problems: too much irrelevant information, and difficulty finding the desired information. This paper offers some practical tips that can prevent frustration and wasted time when searching for medical information on the Internet. ...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Mehta N

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subclinical hypothyroidism is defined by an elevated serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) level along with a normal free thyroxine (T4) level. Whether it should be treated remains controversial. Currently, the best practical approach is to base treatment decisions on the degree of TSH elevation, thyroid autoimmunit...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Azim S,Nasr C

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 1 (IL-1) is a potential target of therapy in COVID-19 during the severe respiratory-inflammatory phase ("cytokine release syndrome"), when pulmonary macrophages are hyperactivated, releasing IL-1 and other cytokines. Preliminary evidence indicates that anakinra and canakinumab, drugs that block the action ...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Calabrese LH,Calabrese C

更新日期：2020-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the clinical presentation of gallstone disease, acalculous cholecystitis, biliary dyskinesia, and gallbladder cancer, as well as how to make best use of current diagnostic and treatment methods, particularly ultrasonography, cholescintigraphy, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and endoscopic retrograde ...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Vogt DP

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:You can find evidence-based answers to clinical questions quickly by searching online medical databases. The key is to be selective, on the basis of the type of information you need. Online textbooks, consensus guidelines systematic reviews, and MEDLINE are all available. ...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Mehta N,Jain A

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Giant cell arteritis is a common systemic vasculitis that affects the elderly and has a variable clinical presentation. Physicians should be aware of its different clinical phenotypes so that they can recognize it early and promptly initiate glucocorticoids, the mainstay of therapy. Clinicians should also be familiar ...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Rinden T,Miller E,Nasr R

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many patients are donating their own blood before surgery to avoid blood-borne infections, often on the advice of their physicians. But autologous blood transfusion, while safer than allogeneic transfusion, is not completely risk-free. It is also expensive, its benefits are difficult to assess, and its increasing popu...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Domen RE

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antidiuretic hormone arginine vasopressin (AVP) is primarily responsible for regulating osmotic and volume homeostasis of body fluids, largely through binding to vasopressin type 1A (V(1A)) and type 2 (V2) receptors. Increased AVP secretion leads to decreased free water excretion with resulting water retention, an...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Verbalis JG

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical care of women with epilepsy entails special considerations over the life span. Endogenous depression is more prevalent in persons with epilepsy than in the general population and may be unrecognized. Seizure frequency may be influenced by hormonal fluctuations, as reflected by catamenial patterns in up to...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Penovich PE,Eck KE,Economou VV

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Consensus panel guidelines advocate for the judicious use of antipsychotic drugs to manage delirium in hospitalized patients when nonpharmacologic measures fail and the patient is in significant distress from symptoms, poses a safety risk to self or others, or is impeding essential aspects of his or her medical care. ...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Thom RP,Mock CK,Teslyar P

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The patient-centered medical home is a rapidly growing concept in reforming American health care. It has spread from its origins in primary care pediatrics to family practice and, more recently, into internal medicine. This review article describes how primary care geriatricians can obtain certification from the Natio...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Gennari A,Fedor K,Bakow E,Resnick NM

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food allergies have increased in prevalence significantly in the past decade and so, apparently, has eosinophilic esophagitis. Although the cause of eosinophilic esophagitis is unknown, allergic responses including food allergies have been implicated. This article reviews both conditions, focusing on how to detect and...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Hong S,Vogel NM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe acute pancreatitis causes high rates of illness and death. Simple scoring predictors can help identify patients at risk so that treatment, primarily supportive, can begin promptly after presentation. Medical therapy is the mainstay, with supportive therapy consisting of controlled volume resuscitation and enter...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Baron TH

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebola virus causes a hemorrhagic fever with a high case-fatality rate. Treatment remains supportive although a variety of specific treatments are still in the early stages of investigation. This report reviews the clinical virology of Ebola virus, the reported proposed treatments, and the current outbreak. ...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Brizendine KD

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with refractory epilepsy face an elevated risk of sudden death, with rates as high as 1% per year. This phenomenon, known as sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP), is believed to be a seizure-related occurrence, but the exact underlying mechanisms are uncertain. Both pulmonary and cardiac pathophysiolog...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Jehi L,Najm IM

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After menopause, women become more susceptible to periodontal disease. We believe the problem is due in large part to estrogen deficiency with resulting bone loss and inflammatory processes. Osteoporosis and periodontal disease are best diagnosed early so that treatment can be started sooner and fractures and tooth lo...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Buencamino MC,Palomo L,Thacker HL

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lifestyle modifications in conjunction with antidiabetes medications can produce near-normal blood glucose concentrations in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Because these patients have increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, treatment strategies should also address the cardiovascular aspects o...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Peters AL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE, lupus) have a markedly better survival rate today than they did 50 years ago, but they face a greater risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease, and osteoporosis at early ages. With better understanding of the immunological mechanisms of the disease, new avenues of therapy...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Manzi S

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Newer immunosuppressive agents are permitting transplantation to be performed more frequently. OBJECTIVES:To review the mechanisms of action and toxicity of cyclosporine. DISCUSSION:Graft rejection is mainly cell-mediated, although a humoral (antibody) response may also be involved. Cyclosporine and relate...

journal_title：Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine

authors： Graham RM

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00