New Issue – March 2013
March 2013 Vol.53 No. 3
THE DYSLIPIDEMIA OF TYPE 2 DIABETES:
Treatment Strategies
DONALD A. SMITH, MD, MPH
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Increased triglycerides, decreased HDL, a preponderance of smaller, denser LDL particles . . . Dr Smith describes an approach to combating the dyslipidemic triad associated with insulin resistance.
PSYCHOTROPIC-INDUCED WEIGHT GAIN:
A Review of Management Strategies
WHITNEY WHITE, PharmD, BCPS, LINDSEY ELMORE, PharmD, BCPS,
DAVID R. LUTHIN, PhD, and MARSHALL E. CATES, PharmD, BCPP, FASHP
Samford University
This adverse drug effect is a common cause of nonadherence, which can lead to relapse and hospitalization. Inside: effective prevention and management strategies.
BULLOUS ORAL EROSIONS:
Clues to Identifying—and Managing—the Cause
WILLIAM LAWSON, MD, DDS
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Dr Lawson focuses on those lesions that are essentially oral manifestations of dermatologic disorders—some of which may be life-threatening.
EDITOR’S COMMENTARY
Don’t Grin About Ingesting Salt: Banning Salt
Can Save Lives
GREGORY W. RUTECKI, MD
University of South Alabama
GUEST COMMENTARY
Wine Signs in Medicine
NATHAN T. COHEN, MD
Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC
GREGORY F. HAYDEN, MD
University of Virginia
DERMCLINIC
A Photo Quiz to Hone Dermatologic Skills
Case 1: Can you identify this birthmark?
Case 2: What is this changing pigmented lesion?
DAVID L. KAPLAN, MD—Series Editor
University of Missouri Kansas City, University of Kansas
PHOTO QUIZ
Are the Findings in These Boys Signs of Malnutrition?
Case 1: 13-Month-Old With Bowed Legs
AJEY V. GODBOLE, MD
Providence Hospital, Brentwood Pediatric Associates,
Livonia, Mich
Case 2: 4-Year-Old With Constipation and Pebbles in Stool
RON SHAOUL, MD and DAVID BADER, MD, MHA
Bnai Zion Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine,
Technion, Haifa, Israel
TOP PAPERS OF THE MONTH
To Work Up or Not Work Up Asymptomatic
Microscopic Hematuria: Have Primary Care Physicians Been Right All Along?
GREGORY W. RUTECKI, MD—Series Editor
University of South Alabama
WHAT’S YOUR DIAGNOSIS?
Tender Honey-Colored Lesion With “Stuck-on” Crust
ALEXANDER K. C. LEUNG, MD—Series Editor
University of Calgary
BENJAMIN BARANKIN, MD
Toronto Dermatology Centre
CASE IN POINT
Spinal Epidural Abscess in a Heroin User
JIMMY Y. SAADE, MD, FACEP
Cleveland Clinic
SHARON E. MACE, MD, FACEP, FAAP
Case Western Reserve University
PHOTO ESSAY
A Gallery of Pigmentation Disorders
ROBERT P. BLEREAU, MD
Morgan City, La
•Oral Hyperpigmentation: Two Cases
•Congenital Hyperpigmentation
•Postinflammatory Hypopigmentation and Hyperpigmentation
•Vitiligo: Two Cases
WHAT’S THE “TAKE HOME”?
Man With Febrile Illness Following Foreign Travel
RONALD N. RUBIN, MD—Series Editor
Temple University
PHOTO QUIZ
Man With Refractory Rash
JOE R. MONROE, PA-C, MPAS
Warren Clinic, Tulsa, Oklahoma
PHOTOCLINIC
Foresee Your Next Patient
SONIA ARUNABH TALWAR, MD
North Shore University Hospital, Plainview, NY
ROBERT P. BLEREAU, MD
Morgan City, La
Liver Abscess Related to Foreign Body
GENTIANA BAKAJ, MD
East Carolina University/Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, NC
MAHFUZUL HAQUE, MD, FRACP
Duke University
CHARLES C. TRAN, DO, MBA
Fullerton, Calif