Essentials of a new clinical practice guidance on familial hypercholesterolaemia for physicians

Essentials of Neuroimaging for Clinical Practice

In this chapter I discuss the use of electroencephalography, event-related potentials, and magnetoencephalography in psychiatry. Of these three measures, electroencephalography is the only one that is currently used in standard psychiatric clinical practice, and even here, its main use is to exclude certain neurological disorders in the differential diagnosis of psychiatric disorders. Event-rel...

Good medical practice: guidance for occupational physicians.

Following a catalogue of serious, highly publicized medical misdemeanours, the General Medical Council (GMC) has introduced plans for a new system of medical licensing in the UK called 'revalidation'. Under this, the onus will fall on individual doctors, including occupational physicians, to demonstrate their continuing fitness to practice. Doctors will need to show that they meet basic minimum...

Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia: new insights and guidance for clinicians to improve detection and clinical management. A position paper from the Consensus Panel on Familial Hypercholesterolaemia of the European Atherosclerosis Society

AIMS Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (HoFH) is a rare life-threatening condition characterized by markedly elevated circulating levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and accelerated, premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ACVD). Given recent insights into the heterogeneity of genetic defects and clinical phenotype of HoFH, and the availability of new therape...

PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT OF FOOT PROBLEMS IN DIABETES: A SUMMARY GUIDANCE FOR DAILY PRACTICE BASED ON THE IWGDF GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS

Background: Diabetic foot is one of the main complications of diabetes, which is caused by a significant proportion of patients with diabetes and which imposes costs on the family and the health system around the world. This review aims to summarize the latest findings in the field of diabetic foot based on clinical guidelines. Methods: In this review study, in order to achieve the best clinic...

Impact of the integrated guidance on the care of familial hypercholesterolaemia.