Grand rounds: catatonia

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Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds

The UCSF Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds series (course number MGR18074) seeks to promote excellence and quality in clinical care; introduce clinicians to recent advances in medical care; provide updates on scientific advances that affect the practice of medicine; and provide a forum for discussion of topics that strengthen the relationship of psychiatry to the broader community. Events a...

Hypertension Grand Rounds Gitelman Syndrome

Gitelman syndrome (GS) is an autosomal-recessive renal tubular disorder characterized by hypokalemia, hypomagnesemia, hypocalciuria, metabolic alkalosis, secondary hyperreninemic aldosteronism, and low blood pressure.1–3 GS patients are usually diagnosed relatively late, because malaise, low blood pressure, hypokalemia, hypocalciuria, and hypomagnesemia are difficult to categorize clinically. I...

Grand Rounds in Environmental Medicine

With this issue, Environmental Health Perspectives initiates a new series: Grand Rounds in Environmental Medicine. In this new series, we will present cases drawn from real life that represent problems commonly encountered in environmental medicine. Some of the cases will be routine; others will have a twist, a twist that is not too unordinary, but rather is illustrative of some of the variatio...