By Alvaro Vargas, MD
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Learning Objectives
By Sandra Goldlust
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Measles was declared eliminated from the US in 2000. Our country, however, is currently in the midst of the largest measles outbreak since 1992. …
By Maria Smith
Peer Reviewed
The mechanism of sodium retention and edema formation in patients with nephrotic syndrome has long been highly contested in the nephrology world. The traditional teaching was that proteinuria …
By Ashira Lubkin, PhD
Peer Reviewed
For me, one of the most difficult things to do in outpatient medicine is to tell a patient that they need to lose …
By Allison Guttmann, MD
Peer Reviewed
A middle-aged woman presents to the Emergency Department with 1 week of calf-pain and swelling. A venous duplex ultrasound reveals a non-compressible popliteal vein …
By Gregory Rubinfeld, MD
Peer Reviewed
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is an increasingly prevalent disorder that has well described associations with cardiovascular disease. OSA affects approximately 20–30% of males and 10–15% of females in North America.1-3 In addition to male gender, other risk …
By Vishal Shah MD, Milna Rufin MD, Marty Fried MD, Shreya P. Trivedi MD || Illustration by Amy Ou MD || Audio Editing by Harit Shah. Quiz yourself on the 5 Pearls we will be covering:
By Rebecca Lazarus, MD
Peer Reviewed
The concept of lactate is frequently on the tip of the tongue or top of the to-do list in the hospital setting. …