{"title":"Alphabetical index of diseases","authors":"T. Nuttall, P. McKeever, R. Harvey","doi":"10.1201/b15206-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/b15206-2","url":null,"abstract":"Systemic diseases that produce itching are listed in Table 1. Control of prurtis in each case depends on control of the fundamental disease. Intolerable itching may require the combined services of a generalist, a dermatologist, an internist or subspecialist. Prurtis is a common symptom, not completely understood, mediated by stimulation of nerve endings in the skin. It may be produced by internal or external stimuli, may be mild or severe, and its cause is often obscure. Treat the symptoms and watch for developments.","PeriodicalId":75729,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive therapy","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65986308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sunita Juliana Ferns, William H Wehrmacher, Maria Serratto
{"title":"Pediatric pulmonary arterial hypertension--a review.","authors":"Sunita Juliana Ferns, William H Wehrmacher, Maria Serratto","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) afflicts thousands of children worldwide. The pathophysiology involves intravascular proliferation and remodeling leading to an increase in pulmonary vascular resistance which if left untreated results in right heart failure and death. Signs and symptoms are subtle as the disease progresses to irreversible lung damage. There is no cure for PAH, however newer methods of treatment can successfully manage these patients and delay progression of the disease process.</p>","PeriodicalId":75729,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive therapy","volume":"35 2","pages":"81-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28315632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hasan Shakoor, Jose Fernando Santacruz, Raed A Dweik
{"title":"Venous thrombo-embolic disease.","authors":"Hasan Shakoor, Jose Fernando Santacruz, Raed A Dweik","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Venous thrombo-embolic disease carries a high mortality rate and sometimes difficulties in diagnosis. Conventional pulmonary angiography remains the gold standard diagnostic test for pulmonary embolism. While contrast venography remains the gold standard modality to diagnose deep venous thrombi, the highly sensitive and specific venous ultrasonography makes it the most common initial test. The management of below-the-knee deep vein thrombosis and the indications for thrombolysis in pulmonary embolism are among the controversies explored.</p>","PeriodicalId":75729,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive therapy","volume":"35 1","pages":"24-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28098330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Renin-angiotensin system inhibitors in proteinuric chronic kidney disease.","authors":"Sheldon Hirsch","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Renin-angiotensin inhibitors are effective in slowing the progression of chronic proteinuric kidney disease. These medicines should be used in preference to anti-hypertensives that do not provide renoprotection.</p>","PeriodicalId":75729,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive therapy","volume":"35 2","pages":"91-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28315633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Majid Dudha, Stuart G Lehrman, Wilbert S Aronow, Abid Butt
{"title":"Evaluation and management of cough.","authors":"Majid Dudha, Stuart G Lehrman, Wilbert S Aronow, Abid Butt","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cough is the most common complaint for which patients seek outpatient medical attention. Usually a minor irritant, it can occasionally be caused by a serious underlying process, and healthcare providers should be diligent in their evaluation. Symptom duration and the particular response to treatment options help identify the etiology of the cough.</p>","PeriodicalId":75729,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive therapy","volume":"35 1","pages":"9-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28098328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lung cancer: the importance of early intervention.","authors":"Dipak Chandy, George Maguire, Wilbert S Aronow","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Fifteen percent of patients are asymptomatic at diagnosis. Symptoms usually indicate advanced disease. Signs include chronic cough, hemoptysis, wheezing, dyspnea, vague chest pain, hoarseness, pleural effusion, cardiac arrhythmias and bone pain. Significant surgical advances have reduced operational mortality rate. Early detection and surgery can increase survival rates for some patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":75729,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive therapy","volume":"35 1","pages":"18-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28098329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Frank S Ciminello, Robert J Morin, T Joanna Nguyen, S Anthony Wolfe
{"title":"Cleft lip and palate: review.","authors":"Frank S Ciminello, Robert J Morin, T Joanna Nguyen, S Anthony Wolfe","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The most common craniofacial malformation in the newborn is the orofacial cleft, consisting of cleft lip with or without cleft palate and isolated cleft palate. Given its prevalence it is important to understand the etiology of the deformity, medical management prior to surgical correction, surgical techniques and timing.</p>","PeriodicalId":75729,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive therapy","volume":"35 1","pages":"37-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28098331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resuscitation and rescue of the pharmaceutical detail: a prescriber-drug representative collaboration.","authors":"Scott A Kale, Robert L Barkin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The traditional pharmaceutical detail must be revised to meet current prescriber presentation and interaction needs. Best practice and evidence-based clinical strategies demands, an expanded database describing prescribable pharmaceutical therapies. We present a format for the structure of a functional database for pharmaceuticals and a means by which the data can be introduced, updated and instituted.</p>","PeriodicalId":75729,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive therapy","volume":"35 2","pages":"68-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28316813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The diagnosis and treatment of depression in the geriatric population.","authors":"Hani Raoul Khouzam","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As the elderly population increases, the number of older psychiatric patients with depression will also increase. Although depression may be manifested by characteristics that are different from depression in the younger population, it responds readily to appropriate therapy. When untreated, this disorder may result in increased morbidity, mortalityand suicide.</p>","PeriodicalId":75729,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive therapy","volume":"35 2","pages":"103-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28315635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eosinophilic esophagitis.","authors":"Sanny K. Chan, M. Mahmoudi","doi":"10.1201/9781420086553-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420086553-5","url":null,"abstract":"Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a chronic allergic inflammatory disease of the esophagus characterized by abnormal infiltration of eosinophils. The incidence of the disease that occurs in children and adults has been rapidly increasing in the last decade. Diagnosis and management of EoE warrants consultation with an allergist and a gastroenterologist.","PeriodicalId":75729,"journal":{"name":"Comprehensive therapy","volume":"35 3-4 1","pages":"160-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1201/9781420086553-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65964836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}