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Clinical Articles, Clinical Images / BY: Lu Kun Chen, MD October 2024
... and affects approximately 1.81 people per 100 000.[ 2 ] The fungal agent may initially cause local inflammation ... fat-saturated acquisitions demonstrated a mildly lobulated 2.36 × 5.32 × 8.64 cm heterogeneous but predominantly T1/T2 ... elements with surrounding inflammation and edema [ Figure 2 ] . There were various collections of septate fungal hyphae ...
Clinical Articles, Review Articles / BY: Alexander R. Hemy, MD October 2024
... affected by the disorder, based on the Rome IV criteria.[ 2 ] IBS has negative impacts on patients’ health-related ... abdominal cramps after passing stools, which last 1–2 hours. There is no sign of gastrointestinal bleeding or ... examination is unremarkable. Does she have IBS? Case 2 Patient 2 is a 42-year-old man with chronic constipation ...
Clinical Articles, Clinical Case Reports / BY: Rebecca Zhuang, MD October 2024
... to develop a pulmonary embolism within 3 months[ 2 ] as a consequence of dislodged thrombi that travel to the ... pulmonary embolism also have deep vein thrombosis.[ 2 ] Acute pulmonary embolism carries a high mortality rate of ... predicted, a reduced forced expiratory volume in 1 second, 2.36 L or 65.8% predicted. Post-bronchodilator forced ...
Premise / BY: Khushi Dabla, BSc October 2024
... strategies for engaging young adults on these platforms.[ 2 , 3 ] We present a detailed methodological framework in the ... consumption and overdose prevention sites [ Figure 2 ] . Educational posts Create infographics or TikToks/reels ...
Premise / BY: Chloe Gao, BHSc October 2024
... weights of White European cisgender men at varied ages.[ 2 , 3 ] His initial goal was to determine the proportions of ... account for the diversity among our patient populations.[ 2 , 3 ] Since the establishment of BMI as a common measure of ... Asian, Black, Chinese, and Arab populations developed type 2 diabetes at significantly lower BMI cutoffs than White ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Eileen M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP October 2024
... and Management for Community-Dwelling Older Adults ,[ 2 ] published in June 2021 for use by primary care ... mobility, and osteoporosis; and the home environment).[ 2 , 3 ] If available, suggesting a Falls Prevention Clinic[ 4 ...
Editorials / BY: David B. Chapman, MBChB October 2024
... hemoglobin at the bedside with a hemoglobinometer [ Figure 2 ] . We had to takes erythrocyte sedimentation rates and ...
Joint Collaborative Committees / BY: Alex Chan, PhD, MD, FRCSC October 2024
... patient satisfaction with primary and specialist care.[ 2 ] Increased wait times are also associated with longer ... triage and inclusion of conservative treatments.[ 2-4 ] These models report high professional satisfaction and ... Shared Orthopaedic Referral and Triage (SORT) project is a 2-year Shared Care Committee initiative facilitated by the ...
Letters / BY: Patrick Yam, MD, CCFP October 2024
... analysis that the investigators had done on their PRP.[ 2 ] Recent systematic reviews have demonstrated the ... showed a positive effect at 6 months, whereas a dose of 2.3 billion showed no effect.[ 3 ] Unfortunately, most ...
Letters / BY: Jan MacPhail, MD, MSc (Epidemiology) October 2024
... cyclists had the right-of-way in about 90% of crashes.[ 2 ] We know motor vehicle crashes remain a leading cause of ...