How frequently and how soon should we screen our patients for the presence of antimalarial retinopathy?

How Should We Screen Patients for Major Depression?

practice. 8 However, the initial manifestations of depression can be subtle and might not be recognized during routine, often brief, primary care visits focused on physical complaints or conditions (as illustrated in the case presented here). Many office visits may occur before the physician explores the possibility of depression. Untreated depression may lead patients to attempt suicide (and p...

How vigorously should we exercise our rheumatoid arthritis patients?

How frequently should asymptomatic patients be dilated?

PURPOSE To determine if routine dilated fundus examination (DFE) should be performed sooner than at 10-year intervals in asymptomatic patients. METHODS Records for all patients consecutively evaluated in a one-year time frame were systematically reviewed. Of those patients who received initial DFE and were living 10 years later, records for sequential DFE were again evaluated to determine pre...

How should we screen competitive athletes for cardiovascular disease?

The sudden unexpected deaths of young trained athletes are highly visible events which have a substantial impact on the physician and lay communities. Although initially a focal point in the United States in the early 1980s, this issue has now become a matter of concern in most parts of the industrialized world (particularly in Europe). Evidence of this is the highly publicized recent sudden de...

How frequently should we follow small asymptomatic intracranial aneurysms?

How Frequently Should We Follow Small Asymptomatic Intracranial Aneurysms? To the Editor: We would like to congratulate the authors1 on collecting data regarding an issue that remains poorly understood, ie, aneurysm growth. Although aneurysm growth has been observed in a number of studies,2,3 the role, if any, that aneurysm growth has in aneurysm pathophysiology is not understood. Data from Int...