New Issue - April 2013
April 2013 Vol.53 No. 4
DIABETES:
New Drug Options and Old Choices
MARC RENDELL, MD
Creighton University and the Rose Salter Medical Research Foundation
Here: how to integrate newer therapies with time-tested treatments to produce the greatest benefit for your patients with diabetes.
DIZZINESS:
Step-by-Step Through the Workup
DOUGLAS J. LANSKA, MD, MS, MSPH
Veterans Administration Medical Center, Tomah, Wisconsin
Dr Lanska outlines an approach that emphasizes a careful history, provocative testing, and a detailed examination, with judicious use of imaging studies.
CHRONIC PAIN MANAGEMENT:
Nonpharmacologic Therapies
STEVEN A. KING, MD, MS
New York University
When performed correctly, these therapies pose virtually no risk of adverse events—yet they are often overlooked and underused.
EDITOR’S COMMENTARY
Check Out What’s New on Consultant360.com
DERMCLINIC
A Photo Quiz to Hone Dermatologic Skills
Case 1: Can you identify this spreading, itchy rash?
Case 2: Why is this man’s leg painful, swollen, and red?
DAVID L. KAPLAN, MD—Series Editor
University of Missouri Kansas City, University of Kansas
CASE IN POINT
Young Man With Anterior Mediastinal Mass and Dyspnea
MAHESH K. DUGGAL, MD,
NEETA M. SHAH, MD,
and ARUNABH, MD
North Shore University Hospital at Forest Hills, New York
PHOTO ESSAY
Skin Signs of Vascular Disorders
TOP PAPERS OF THE MONTH
Responding to Life-Threatening Pulmonary Embolic Disease
GREGORY W. RUTECKI, MD—Series Editor
University of South Alabama
CASE IN POINT
Bruising in a Teenage Girl: A Manifestation of Dermatitis Artefacta
KAVITA BAPAT, MD,
SAMER H. A. ZAID KAYLANI, MD,
CURTIS TURNER, MD,
and OSVALDO REGUEIRA, MD
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo
WHAT’S YOUR DIAGNOSIS?
Nine-Year-Old Boy With Torticollis
SUSAN BROWN, MD,
SARA LASKEY, MD,
and DAVID EFFRON, MD
Case Western Reserve University
WOUND CARE CLINIC
Wound Infection: Primary Considerations
PHOTO QUIZ
Respiratory Woes: Smoking-Related or Not?
Case 1: Sudden-Onset Cough, Fatigue, and Confusion
in an Elderly Woman
JOHN E. HEFFNER, MD
Portland, Oregon
Case 2: Persistent Cough in a Man With Glioblastoma Multiforme
SCOTT LACKEY, MD,
GLENN J. LESSER, MD,
EDWARD F. HAPONIK, MD,
and TIMOTHY E. OAKS, MD
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
PHOTOCLINIC
Foresee Your Next Patient
JOE R. MONROE, PA, MPAS
Dawkins Dermatology, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
JAMES STEFFEN, MD
and DIANE HARPER, MD
University of Missouri–Kansas City
VIRENDRA PARIKH, MD
Fort Wayne, Indiana
YELVA L. LYNFIELD, MD
Cedarhurst, New York