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Taking Cardiovascular Issues to Heart: A Photo Essay

Consultantlive.com photo essays visually explore a disease state with cases of common and uncommon presentation, each accompanied by details on etiology, diagnosis, and special considerations. Start your virtual exploration here, with problems of the heart.

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Brown, Dry Plaques: Your Dx?

Image IQ | July 30, 2014 | Skin Diseases

These asymptomatic plaques developed on the legs of a 59-year-old woman with diabetes mellitus and pulmonary sarcoidosis. Biopsy showed a granulomatous infiltrate of epithelioid histiocytes and multinucleated giant cells surrounded by lymphocytes “layered” throughout the dermis.What’s your diagnosis?

A “Funny Looking Lump” That Bleeds When Traumatized

Quiz | July 29, 2014 | Skin Diseases

Is this lesion a skin cancer? Does organophosphate poisoning cause syncope? How is tinea pedia complex best treated? Try your hand at this week’s quiz questions.

When Your Health Insurer Pays for Breakfast, Here’s What Happens…

Pamela Wible, MD

Blog | July 29, 2014

By Pamela Wible, MD

Health insurance is complex. Eating out is easy—unless you were to involve your health insurance company.

Taking Cardiovascular Issues to Heart: A Photo Essay

Leo Robert

July 28, 2014 | Cardiovascular Diseases

By Leo Robert

Myocarditis, postpericardiotomy syndrome, double aortic arch, heart-hand syndromes, stroke, cardiac valvulopathy, hemochromatosis, myocardial rupture—these visual presentations cover a range of heart diseases and related problems.

Chest Pain After Hemopneumothorax

Brady Pregerson, MD

Quiz | July 28, 2014 | Respiratory Diseases

By Brady Pregerson, MD

Recovery from a hemopneumothorax had progressed well for this 29-year-old man until today when he presents to the ED with dyspnea and pleuritic chest pain. What do you see on the chest x-ray?

Rash in an Immunocompromised Man: Your Dx?

Image IQ | July 25, 2014 | Skin Diseases

This man had been taking vancomycin and piperacillin/tazobactam for 3 weeks for osteomyelitis. What does the rash look like to you?

A Rash of Rough Spinous Patches on a Young Girl

Melissa Kaori S. Litao, MD

Ahdi Amer, MD

July 24, 2014 | Dermatology, Skin Diseases

By Melissa Kaori S. Litao, MD and Ahdi Amer, MD

The rash has been present for 2 years. Originally on the trunk and extremities it has now spread to her face and hands. She has been diagnosed as having and been unsuccessfully treated for nummular eczema and tinea corporis. What's your Dx?

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"Doc, I Think I Have Carpal Tunnel…"
Brady Pregerson, MD
Quiz | March 27, 2014 | AAN 2014, Nervous System Diseases
By Brady Pregerson, MD
Progressive numbness in 3 fingers on both hands led this computer programmer to diagnose himself as having carpal tunnel syndrome. But, there's more to this story.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Saba Farooq, MD
Mohsin Haseeb, MD
September 30, 2013 | Nervous System Diseases
By Saba Farooq, MD and Mohsin Haseeb, MD
In its classic form, ALS affects motor neurons at 2 or more levels supplying multiple regions of the body.
Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders in Patients With HIV/AIDS
Glenn J. Treisman, MD, PhD
March 25, 2013 | HIV AIDS, Infection
By Glenn J. Treisman, MD, PhD
Mental illness is a risk factor for HIV infection. It brings a number of behavioral correlates that put patients at risk for getting infected. As HIV infection worsens, it begins to affect the brain, and cyclical relationship between the disease and mental illness begins.
Questions Primary Care Physicians Commonly Ask About HIV/AIDS
January 21, 2013 | HIV AIDS, Infection
Here, HIV/AIDS specialist, Dr Susan Ball, answers 6 questions about HIV infection that primary care clinicians commonly ask.

Managing Physical Illness and Depression
August 20, 2013 | Obesity, Depression
What is the relationship between common illnesses and depression? And why is the relationship so strong? What can clinicians do now to manage both the medical illness and the depression?
Statins Plus Exercise: New Study Questions the Combination
Catherine R Mikus, PhD
Payal Kohli, MD
June 17, 2013 | Cardiology Now
By Catherine R Mikus, PhD and Payal Kohli, MD
Simvastatin 40 mg once daily can attenuate increases in cardiorespiratory fitness in response to exercise training.
Clostridium difficile: New Guidelines Confront Hypervirulent Strain
Christina M. Surawicz, MD
June 05, 2013 | DDW2014, Gastrointestinal Disorders, Infection
By Christina M. Surawicz, MD
Recurrent C difficile requires pulse vancomycin therapy; fecal microbiota transplant shows promise.
Preventing Hypertension: Do Primary Care Providers Practice What They Prescribe?
Jing Fang, MD
May 22, 2013
By Jing Fang, MD
A key finding: a primary physician’s healthy lifestyle behaviors may be linked to his or her recommendations for hypertension prevention.

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