Clinical Pearls for Treating COPD

Treating systemic effects of COPD.

The emerging recognition that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a complex disorder, characterized not only by local pulmonary inflammation, but also by systemic inflammation that might have an adverse impact on various extrapulmonary organs, such as the blood vessels and the heart, among others, emphasizes the need for new and more effective forms of therapy for this debilitating ...

Clinical Pearls in breast disease.

F eral Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. A t the 2001 Annual Conference of the American College of Physicians, a new teaching format to aid physician learning, Clinical Pearls, was introduced. Clinical Pearls is designed with the 3 qualities of physician-learners in mind. First, we physicians enjoy learning from cases. Second, we like concise, practical points that we can use in ou...

Clinical pearls in respiratory diseases.

In this section, the authors present some common and some uncommon respiratory cases that have diagnostic and/or therapeutic challenges. First case is of an eight- yr- old child having Acute onset Wheeze and fever, second one is of a 1.5- yr- old Wheezing child not responding to inhaled bronchodilators and corticosteroids, third of a 4-yr- old with Respiratory distress and wheezing with underly...

Review Course: Continued Laragh’s Lessons in Pathophysiology and Clinical Pearls for Treating Hypertension Introduction to Lessons X to XII

Last month, we presented the evidence implicating plasma renin-angiotensin excesses (ie, excess plasma renin activity levels) as the cause of malignant hypertension and of its cardiac, cerebral, and renal vessel damage, which lead rapidly to fatal heart attack or stroke, or heart or kidney failure. We also showed that milder but inappropriate excesses of plasma renin angiotensin directly sustai...

Clinical Pearls in Anaesthesia for Pleurectomy/Decortication for Malignant Mesothelioma