In Dogs With Pyothorax Does Medical Management Alone, Invasive Medical Management, or Surgical Management Result in Better Long-term Outcome?

Long term outcome of medical and surgical co-management of craniospinal aspergillosis in an immunocompromised patient

35 yr old steroid dependent lady with Pulmonary TB underwent debridement of epidural abscess & posterior stabilization for paraparesis. With histopathology and cultures showing Aspergillus fumigatus, voricanozole was started. By the fourth week, she developed persistent fever, and altered mental status. Brain MRI and CSF study including multiplex PCR evaluation confirmed cerebral aspergillosis....

MEDICAL MANAGEMENT Working With Families in Long-Term Care

Effective communication with families can improve clinical process and outcomes in long-term care. Such communication may be challenging to long-term care clinicians, who may feel they lack requisite skills or are uncomfortable with potentially charged and negative emotions that may result. These barriers can be overcome by using models of family behavior and of physician involvement in family ...

Endocarditis. Medical and Surgical Management

In the rush of current publications concerning AIDS, it is difficult to distinguish between new, noteworthy articles and those of lesser significance. There is need for a compilation of up-to-date scientific information in this rapidly growing field. AIDS: Modern Concepts and Therapeutic Challenges fills that need. Edited by Samuel Broder, Associate Director of the National Cancer Institute's C...

Septic Arthritis of Native Joints: Are Outcomes Better with Medical or Surgical Management?

Medical management of recurrent endometrioma with long-term norethindrone acetate

PURPOSE Evaluate the efficacy of norethindrone acetate in the resolution of symptoms and regression of recurrent endometrioma. PATIENTS AND METHODS Retrospective chart review at SUNY Downstate Medical Center of patients with a history of surgical excision of endometrioma (with histological confirmation) and recurrent endometrioma (demonstrated by strict sonographic criterion of endometrioma) ...