Weblinks for Sixth Edition
Chapter 1: Thinking About Medicine
1.The Lancet - Modification of attitudes to influence survival from breast cancer
2.BMJ - Mental health assessment - open and closed questions are often confused
5.BMJ - A good death: An important aim for health services and for us all
6.BMJ - Adherence to advance directives in critical care decision making: vignette study
9.BMJ - Effects of communicating individual risks in screening programmes: Cochrane systematic review
13.BMJ - Cochrane plans to allay fears over industry influence
28.Age & Ageing - The role of chest radiography in the evaluation of the ‘geriatric giants’
29.BMJ - Oxybutynin is preferred to tolterodine for overactive bladder
31.BMJ - Community institutional care for frail elderly people
Chapter 2: Epidemiology
2.BMJ - Evidence-based medicine: an approach to clinical problem solving
7.BMJ - Validation of a rapid whole blood test for diagnosing Helicobacter pylori infection
9.Diagnostic Strategies, 2nd Edition (American College of Physicians)
12.BMJ - Numbers needed to treat derived from meta-analyses: sometimes informative, usually misleading
13.BMJ - Confidence intervals for the number needed to treat
Chapter 3: Clinical Skills
Chapter 5: Cardiovascular Medicine
6.BMJ - “Chest pain - please admit”: is there an alternative?
9.NEJM - Chest Pain in Women with Normal Coronary Angiograms
37.Nature - French geneticists raise worries over use of new genome funds
40.Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd - Hypertensive crisis: definition, pathophysiology and treatment
46.NEJM - Aortic Stenosis - Listen to the Patient, Look at the Valve
54.Turk J Pediatr - Variable clinical expression of Holt-Oram syndrome in three generations
Chapter 6: Chest Medicine
Chapter 7: Gastoenterology
6.Hosp Med - Gastro-oesophageal reflux: the disease of the millennium
7.Cochrane Database Syst Rev - Initial management strategies for dyspepsia
10.NEJM - Absence of benefit of eradicating Helicobacter Pylori in patients with nonulcer dyspepsia
12.Drugs - Esomeprazole: a review of its use in the management of acid-related disorders
16,17, 20, 21 & 22.BMJ - Constipation and its management
18.Nahrung - Sorption of copper, zinc and cobalt by oat and oat products
24.Postgrad Med J - Massive haematemesis and melaena from a Meckel’s diverticulum
27.Semin Gastrointest Dis - The critically ill liver patient: the variceal bleeder
35.Surg Radiol Anat - Radio-anatomic study of the pancreatic duct by MR cholangiopancreatography
36.Surg Radiol Anat - Radio-anatomic study of the pancreatic duct by MR cholangiopancreatography
38.Gastroenterol Hepatol - Budd-Chiari syndrome: our experience of 71 patients
39.Aliment Pharmacol Ther - Nutritional therapy in alcoholic liver disease
44.AJR Am J Roentgenol - Discrimination of alcoholic from virus-induced cirrhosis on MR imaging
45.AJR Am J Roentgenol. - Viral-induced cirrhosis: grading of severity using MR imaging
49.Drugs Aging. - Drug treatment of the complications of cirrhosis in the older adult
50.Int J Artif Organs - Clinical outcome of orthotopic liver transplantation
51.Liver - Calculation and interpretation of the hepatic iron index: A brief summary
53.Ann Intern Med - Osteoporosis in hemochromatosis: iron excess, gonadal deficiency, or other factors?
54.J Endocrinol Invest - Mineralocorticoid status and endocrine dysfunction in severe hemochromatosis
57.0 Diabete Metab - Haemoglobin AIc in patients on venesection therapy for haemochromatos
59.Hepatology - Prognostic factors for hepatocellular carcinoma in genetic hemochromatosis
65.Transplantation. - Benefit of transplantation in primary biliary cirrhosis between 1985-1997
66.Autoimmunity - Smooth muscle antibodies and type 1 autoimmune hepatitis
73.Trop Med Int Health - Clinical findings among 62 Thais with cholangiocarcinoma
74.Cancer - Neoadjuvant photodynamic therapy as a new approach to treating hilar cholangiocarcinoma
78.Gastroenterol - Secondary amyloidosis in ulcerative colitis--successful treatment with colchicine
84.Drug Saf - Comparative tolerability of treatments for inflammatory bowel disease
90.Int J Colorectal Dis - Improvement in irritable bowel syndrome following ano-rectal surgery
93.Ann Intern Med - The relation of passage of gas an abdominal bloating to colonic gas production
98.Psychopharmacology (Berl) - Neuropsychological investigation into the carcinoid syndrome
99.Ann Biol Clin (Paris) - Chromogranin A: a marker of neuroendocrine tumors
100.Presse Med - Symptomatic relief of carcinoid syndrome by ketanserin. A case
104.Curr Gastroenterol Rep - A perspective on tropical sprue
106.Arch Intern Med - Screening for alcohol problems in primary care: a systematic review
Chapter 8: Renal Medicine
4.Urology - Urinalysis, ultrasound analysis, and renal dynamic scintigraphy in acute appendicitis
5.Rev Med Interne - Pseudotumoral adenopathies, an unusual means of detecting systemic amyloidosis
6.Transplantation - Acute rejection presenting as nephrotic syndrome
8.Hinyokika Kiyo - Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis with large vessel thrombosis
9.J Endourol - Laparoscopic treatment of retroperitoneal fibrosis
12.Rinsho Byori - Evaluation of dysmorphic red cells in the urinary sediment
13.World J Gastroenterol -Role of hepatitis B virus infection in pathogenesis of IgA nephropathy
16.Clin Nephrol - Acute renal failure in idiopathic ephrotic syndrome
22.Adv Perit Dial - Incremental initiation of peritoneal dialysis: current practice
23.NEJM - Stopping long-term dialysis. An empirical study of withdrawal of life-supporting treatment
24.Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd - Voluntary discontinuation of dialysis treatment by chronic dialysis patients
27.Am J Surg - Selection of patients for renal artery repair using captopril testing
32.Rev Med Chil - Hemolytic-uremic syndrome and Streptococcus pneumoniae
34.Clin Ther - Pharmacologic management of diabetic nephropathy
35.NEJM - Multifactorial intervention and cardiovascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes
37.J Am Soc Nephrol - Inherited disorders of renal magnesium handling
38.Expert Rev Anticancer Ther - von Hippel-Lindau disease: recent advances and therapeutic perspectives
Chapter 9: Endocrinology
10.J Wound Care - Hot sand burns on the sole of a patient with diabetes
16 & 18.NICE - Guidance on the use of glitazones for the treatment of type 2 diabetes
20.Int J Clin Pract - Nateglinide (Starlix): update on a new antidiabetic agent
22.Drugs - Metabolic and additional vascular effects of thiazolidinediones
31.Intern Med - Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy for diabetic amyotrophy
32.Rev Med Chir Soc Med Nat Iasi - Gastroparesis and its management
34.Endocrine - High-dose calcium stimulation test in a case of insulinoma masquerading as hysteria
35.Br J Sports Med - Insulin as a drug of abuse in body building
36.Diabetes Res Clin Pract - Insulinoma accompanied by diabetes mellitus
38.Surgery - Pitfalls in the surgical treatment of insulinoma
42.Eur J Endocrinol - Autoimmune thyroid disease: propagation and progression
43.J Endocrinol Invest - Toxic multinodular goiter in the elderly
47.J Toxicol Clin Toxicol - Lithium: thyroid effects and altered renal handling
48.Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes - Thyroidectomy in iodine induced thyrotoxic storm
49.BMJ - Thyrotoxicosis induced by iodine contamination of food - a common unrecognised condition?
50.Endocr J - Reducing effect of nadolol on serum levels of free thyroid hormones in hyperthyroidism
51.Pol Arch Med Wewn - Reversible thyrotoxic cardiomyopathy - report of three cases
53.Thyroid - Epidemiology and prevention ofgraves’ ophthalmopathy
59.Minerva Med - Primary hyperparathyroidism and peptic ulcer
64.World J Surg - Subtotal parathyroidectomy in renal failure: still needed after all these years
66.Genomics - STK25 is a candidate gene for pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism
71.P R Health Sci J - Clinical profile of 128 subjects operated for primary hyperparathyroidism
74.Dermatol Clin Multiple endocrine neoplasia 2B (MEN 2B)/MEN 3
79.Rev Med Chil - Cushing’s syndrome: review of a national caseload
83.Am J Gastroenterol - Gastrointestinal manifestations of Addison’s disease
84.AACN Clin Issues Crit Care Nurs - Adrenocortical insufficiency: a medical emergency
88.Trop Geogr Med - Addison’s disease presenting withmarked eosinophilia and psychosis
91.Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am - Autoantibodies in autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type II
93 & 94.Ann Surg - Clinical experience over 48 years with pheochromocytoma
99.NEJM - Hemodynamic Effects of Sildenafil in Men with Severe Coronary Artery Disease
102.Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd - ‘Smart drugs’ enticements on the Internet
105.NICE - Human growth hormone (somatropin) in adults with growth hormone deficiency
108.Leg Med (Tokyo) - Sudden death due to pituitary apoplexy
111.Pituitary - Self image and quality of life in acromegaly
113.J Clin Endocrinol Metab - The prevalence and characteristics of colorectal neoplasia in acromegaly
114.J Assoc Physicians India - Toxic thyroid adenoma and acromegaly: an unusual association
Chapter 10: Neurology
3.J Hand Surg [Am] - Crossed fingers and other tests of ulnar nerve motor function
4.J Hand Surg [Br] - Finger flexion sign for ulnar neuropathy
10.CNS Drugs -New and emerging prophylactic agents for migraine
15.J Otolaryngol - Efficacy of amitriptyline in the treatment of subjective tinnitus
18.Surg Neurol - Metastases of the spinal cord from remote neoplasms. Study of five cases
19.Br J Neurosurg - Schistosoma haematobium presenting as an intrinsic conus tumour
20.Dev Med Child Neurol - Bizarre posture and movement disorder with third ventricle astrocytoma
31.Neurology - How to identify psychogenic disorders of stance and gait. A video study in 37 patients
38.Haematologia (Budap) - Multiple myeloma in sickle cell syndromes
52.The Lancet - Thunderclap headache as first symptom of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis
53.Rinsho Shinkeigaku - A case with an isolated cortical vein thrombosis
58.Head Injury
60.APMIS - Rapid immunodiagnosis of streptococci and enterococci in blood cultures
68.Neurology - Nonconvulsive status epilepticus in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
69.Cochrane Database Syst Rev - Cholinesterase inhibitors for dementia with Lewy bodies
70.Schweiz Rundsch Med Prax - Vitamin B12 deficiency in geriatrics
71.Radiology - Cost-Effectiveness of PET in the Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease
74.NEJM - Use It or Lose It - Do Effortful Mental Activities Protect against Dementia?
76.J Alzheimers Dis - The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, smoking, and Alzheimer’s disease
81.JAMA - Participation in cognitively stimulating activities and risk of incident Alzheimer disease
83.NEJM - Rethinking the Role of Tube Feeding in Patients with Advanced Dementia
87.Rev Neurol - Use of lamotrigine in the treatment of absence epilepsy crises
88.Epilepsia - Sudden unexplained death and injury in epilepsy 90. The Lancet - Safety and efficacy of vigabatrin and carbamazepine in newly diagnosed epilepsy: a multicentre randomised double-blind study
93.Sleep - Modafinil for the treatment of daytime sleepiness in Parkinson’s disease: a double-blind, randomized, crossover, placebo-controlled polygraphic trial 94. Mov Disord - Rivastigmine in the treatment of parkinsonian psychosis and cognitive impairment: preliminary findings from an open trial
96.Drugs Aging - Comparative tolerability of the newer generation antiparkinsonian agents
98.Prescrire Int 2002 - Selegiline: a second look. Six years later: too risky in Parkinson’s disease
102.Drugs - Early intervention in multiple sclerosis: better outcomes for patients and society?
104.Curr Treat Options Neurol - Disease-modifying Therapies for MS
105.BMJ - Drug 105. J Rehabil Med - Long-term modification of spasticity
107.The Cleveland Clinic Foundation - MRI Criteria for Brain Abnormality: Space and Time Dissemination
109.Curr Opin Ophthalmol - Elevated intracranial pressure and pseudotumor cerebri
110.Rev Electroencephalogr Neurophysiol Clin - Epilepsy beginning between 18 and 39 years of age
112.Optometry - Dorsal midbrain syndrome secondary to a pineocytoma
116.Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg - Scarless lip rehabilitation for the adynamic lip
118 & 124.J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry - Ramsay Hunt syndrome
120.J Neurol - Viral infections of the CNS with special emphasis on herpes simplex infections
122.Cochrane Database Syst Rev - Links Aciclovir for Bell’s palsy (idiopathic facial paralysis)
125.Sarcoidosis Vasc Diffuse Lung Dis - Differential diagnosis of facial nerve palsy
126.Am J Otol - Episodic facial paralysis due to temporal bone pneumocele: a case report
128.Muscle Nerve - Neuralgic amyotrophy: an increasingly diverse entity
130.J Am Acad Orthop Surg - Compressive ulnar neuropathies at the elbow: I. Etiology and diagnosis
131.Night splints
133.Instr Course Lect - Compressive neuropathies of the ulnar nerve at the elbow and wrist
134.J Neuropathol Exp Neurol - Dominantly inherited peripheral neuropathies
138.BMJ - US links motor neurone disease with Gulf war service
143.Neurol Neurochir Pol - Pathogenesis of ALS: implications for treatment strategies
151.Cochrane Database Syst Rev - Scapular fixation in muscular dystrophy
154.Ophthalmology - An ice test for the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis
155.Neurol Sci - High-dose intravenous immunoglobulin G treatment of myasthenia gravis
157.Chin Med J - Diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of thymoma: an analysis of 116 cases
160.Surg Neurol - Links Intradural spinal arachnoid cysts in adults
164.Arch Phys Med Rehabil - Total knee arthroplasty in a patient with bilateral Charcot knees
165.Joint Bone Spine - Destructive hip disease complicating traumatic paraplegia
166.J Belge Radiol - Neuropathic arthropathy of the shoulder secondary to syringomyelia
171.The Lancet - Modification of attitudes to influence survival from breast cancer
172.J Am Geriatr Soc - Emotional well-being predicts subsequent functional independence and survival
Chapter 11: Rheumatology
4.Spine - The test of Lasegue: systematic review of the accuracy in diagnosing herniated discs
10.Clin Infect Dis - Pneumococcal septic arthritis: review of 190 cases
15.Osteoarthritis Cartilage - C-reactive protein as a biomarker of emergent osteoarthritis
16.BMJ - Gout
19.J Rheumatol - Prospective use of intramuscular triamcinolone acetonide in pseudogout
24.Is juvenile rheumatoid arthritis/juvenile idiopathic arthritis different from rheumatoid arthritis?
30.Minerva Med - Dermatomyositis: diagnosis, evaluation and management
33.Emin Nephrol - New prospects for treatment of lupus nephritis
37.Transplantation - Recurrent lupus nephritis in renal transplant recipients revisited: it is not rare
39.Rev Alerg Mex - New prospects for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus Iniestra
44.Hinyokika Kiyo - Erectile dysfunction arising from polyarteritis nodosa: a case report
Chapter 12: Oncology
1.NEJM - Use of Alternative Medicine - A Marker for Distress?
4.BMJ - Cancer care in the United Kingdom: new solutions are needed
16.Semin Oncol - Treatment of hypercalcemia of malignancy with bisphosphonates
17.Clin Radiol - External radiotherapy in the management of malignant pericardial effusion
21.Drug Saf - Prevention and management of extravasation of cytotoxic drugs
24.Aust Fam Physician - Fertility effects of cancer treatment
27.Early Pregnancy - Cryobiology in human assisted reproductive technology. Would Hippocrates approve?
30.Arch Fam Med - Breast cancer trends of black women compared with white women
Chapter 13: Surgery
6.National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths (NCEPOD)
30 & 31.Handbook of Transfusion Medicine
34.NEJM - Preventing Complications of Central Venous Catheterization
35.Update in Anaesthesia - Clinical Management of Diabetes Mellitus During Anaesthesia and Surgery
43.BMJ - Fertility patterns after appendicectomy: historical cohort study
56.NEJM - Urgent Colonoscopy for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Diverticular Hemorrhage
79.NEJM - Noninvasive detection of clinically occult lymph-node metastases in prostate cancer
81.NEJM - Quality of life after radical prostatectomy or watchful waiting
101.NICE - Full guidance on trastuzumab for advanced breast cancer
108.NEJM - A Randomized Trial of Aspirin to Prevent Colorectal Adenomas
116, 117 & 119.Gut - Guidelines on management of oesophageal and gastric cancer
128.Postgrad Med - Progress in the understanding of chronic anal fissure
130.The Oncologist - Carcinoma of the Anus: Strategies in Management
135.NEJM - A Comparison of Suture Repair with Mesh Repair for Incisional Hernia
136.BMJ - Why does NICE not recommend laparoscopic herniorraphy?
139.NICE guidelines
145.J Gastroenterol Hepatol - Long-term effect of alpha-glucosidase inhibitor on late dumping syndrome
Chapter 14: Infectious Diseases
13.BMJ - Periodic fevers enter the era of molecular diagnosis
15.The Mercury News - World sees an explosion in new infectious diseases
19.Baillieres Clin Rheumatol - Viral infections: alpha-viral arthropathy
39.BMJ - Drug resistant tuberculosis can be controlled, says WHO
50, 51 & 52.BMJ - Rapid virological surveillance of community influenza infection in general practice
60.NEJM - Suppressing Hepatitis B without Resistance - So Far, So Good
61.NEJM - Hepatitis B Antigen and the Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
63.NEJM - Peginterferon Alfa-2a plus Ribavirin for Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection
70.NEJM - A Controlled Trial of Valganciclovir as Induction Therapy for Cytomegalovirus Retinitis
76.NEJM - Lopinavir-Ritonavir versus Nelfinavir for the Initial Treatment of HIV Infection
77.NEJM - Interactions among Drugs for HIV and Opportunistic Infections
100.BMJ - Leprosy elimination”a virtual phenomenon or a reality?
107.The Lancet - Polio-endemic countries pledge to boost eradication efforts in 2004
108.NEJM - The Final Stages of the Global Eradication of Polio
110.Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo Molecular typing of dengue virus type 2 in Brazil
116.NEJM - Fluconazole for the Treatment of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Caused by Leishmania major
Chapter 18: Eponymous Syndromes
4.J Gastroenterol Hepatol - Budd-Chiari syndrome: our experience of 71 patients
11.EDTNA ERCA J - Restless legs syndrome: a review for the renal care professionals
22.Cardiology - Loffler’s endomyocarditis in the idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome
24.Archives of Neurology - Treatment of McArdle Disease (Phosphorylase Deficiency - MPD or PYGM)
27.NEJM - Neostigmine for the Treatment of Acute Colonic Pseudo-Obstruction
28.NEJM - Liver Disease in Patients with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
29.Cancer - The conservative management of Paget’s disease of the breast with radiotherapy
30.J Urol - Iontophoresis for treatment of Peyronie’s disease
32.Expert Opin Investig Drugs - Sjogren’s syndrome: evolving therapies