HOW THE GENERAL PRACTITIONER SHOULD TREAT GONORRHEA.

“How should we treat older patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer, A Review”

Nearly 50 % of newly diagnosed colorectal cancer, affect people over 70 years of age. Inclusion of older patients in clinical trials has been extremely rare. As a result, there is debate on how to manage these patients because it is still unclear how to balance the therapeutic advantages and toxicities. For patients who do not have comorbid conditions, with performance status (P.S.) 0–1, treatm...

What Should the General Practitioner Know about Filariasis

wise healthy and beautiful towns and villages dreadfully unhealthy. As an observer from the West Coast in South India, I may mention Mangalore in South Canara, Ponnani in Malabar, Mattancheri in Cochin and Sherthali in Travancore, as a few examples of such places where people with ' big legs' or ' indecently hung' may be seen in disgusting proportions not to speak of the sufferers who go down w...

Cefuroxime axetil to treat gonorrhea.

How should we treat portopulmonary hypertension?

T he development of pulmonary arterial hypertension in the setting of advanced liver disease (portopulmonary hypertension (POPH)) has certainly captured the attention of all liver transplant centres, but why? For patients with moderate-to-severe POPH (mean pulmonary artery pressure (mPAP) .35 mmHg and pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) .400 dyne?s?cm-5), the risk of intra-operative death and p...

How should we treat coarctation of the aorta?

Coarctation is a narrowing of the aorta located between the first brachiocephalic vessel and the aortic bifurcation. When isolated coarctation is associated with congestive heart failure, it is considered clinically important,2 but what is "important" when the child is asymptomatic? Shaddy et all use as an entrance criterion "hemodynamically significant native coarctation of the aorta" without ...