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Chapter 1: Thinking About Medicine

  1. 1.The Lancet - Modification of attitudes to influence survival from breast cancer

  2. 2.BMJ - Mental health assessment - open and closed questions are often confused

  3. 3.The Lancet - Medicine, the arts, and the humanities

  4. 5.BMJ - A good death: An important aim for health services and for us all

  5. 6.BMJ - Adherence to advance directives in critical care decision making: vignette study

  6. 7.BMJ - Growing algorithms from seed

  7. 8.Health Expectations - Information about screening - is it to achieve high uptake or to ensure informed choice?

  8. 9.BMJ - Effects of communicating individual risks in screening programmes: Cochrane systematic review

  9. 13.BMJ - Cochrane plans to allay fears over industry influence

  10. 16.WHO comments on NICE methodologies 2003

  11. 17.Gastroenterology - Systematic review and economic evaluation of the effectiveness of infliximab for the treatment of Crohn’s disease

  12. 18.IMJ - Cost Analysis of Primary Total Hip Replacement

  13. 19.BMJ - Effect of socioeconomic deprivation on waiting time for cardiac surgery: retrospective cohort study

  14. 20.Salon.com - Review of Atonement by Ian McEwan

  15. 28.Age & Ageing - The role of chest radiography in the evaluation of the ‘geriatric giants’

  16. 29.BMJ - Oxybutynin is preferred to tolterodine for overactive bladder

  17. 30.BMJ - Randomised trial of impact of model of integrated care and case management for older people living in the community

  18. 31.BMJ - Community institutional care for frail elderly people

  19. 32.Familiar Medical Quotations - “As to diseases, make a habit of two things -- to help, or at least to do no harm”

Chapter 2: Epidemiology

  1. 1.BMJ - Evidence-based medicine

  2. 2.BMJ - Evidence-based medicine: an approach to clinical problem solving

  3. 4.The Damon Runyon Society

  4. 5.BMJ - Is it possible to exclude a diagnosis of myocardial damage within six hours of admission to an emergency department? Diagnostic cohort study

  5. 6.BMJ - Validation of a rapid whole blood test for diagnosing Helicobacter pylori infection. Likelihood ratios provide more information with little effort

  6. 7.BMJ - Validation of a rapid whole blood test for diagnosing Helicobacter pylori infection

  7. 9.Diagnostic Strategies, 2nd Edition (American College of Physicians)

  8. 12.BMJ - Numbers needed to treat derived from meta-analyses: sometimes informative, usually misleading

  9. 13.BMJ - Confidence intervals for the number needed to treat

Chapter 3: Clinical Skills

  1. 3.E-chocardiography Journal - Hepatojugular Reflux

  2. 4.Brain - A functional neuroimaging study of the variables that generate category-specific object processing differences

  3. 5.Cortex - Gender affects naming latencies for living and nonliving things: implications for familiarity

  4. 7.Alcohol Health & Research World - Brief screening instruments for alcoholism

Chapter 4: Symptoms and Signs

  1. 5.Journal of Family Practice - Does treatment of acute herpes zoster prevent or shorten postherpetic neuralgia?

  2. 6.Critical Care Medicine - Clinical assessment and management of massive hemoptysis

  3. 7.BMJ - Towards an understanding of oedema

Chapter 5: Cardiovascular Medicine

  1. 4.BMJ - Bupropion: a new treatment for smokers

  2. 6.BMJ - “Chest pain - please admit”: is there an alternative?

  3. 8.NEJM - Abnormal Myocardial Phosphorus-31 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Women with Chest Pain but Normal Coronary Angiograms

  4. 9.NEJM - Chest Pain in Women with Normal Coronary Angiograms

  5. 16.BMJ- Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty versus medical treatment for non-acute coronary heart disease: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

  6. 17.Schweiz Med Wochenschr - To stent or not to stent

  7. 19.BMJ - Cardiac troponins in chest pain

  8. 21.European Heart Journal - Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation

  9. 22.NICE - Guidance on the use of glycoprotein llb/llla inhibitors in the treatment of acute coronary syndromes

  10. 24.DVLA web site

  11. 25.BMJ - Catheter ablation for cardiac arrhythmias

  12. 28.J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol - Right atrial flutter isthmus revisited: normal anatomy favors nonuniform anisotropic conduction

  13. 37.Nature - French geneticists raise worries over use of new genome funds

  14. 40.Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd - Hypertensive crisis: definition, pathophysiology and treatment

  15. 46.NEJM - Aortic Stenosis - Listen to the Patient, Look at the Valve

  16. 54.Turk J Pediatr - Variable clinical expression of Holt-Oram syndrome in three generations

Chapter 6: Chest Medicine

  1. 15 & 16. Thorax - Nutritional enhancement of exercise performance in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomised controlled trial

  2. 17.BMJ - Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease: Mucolytics useful for COPD, guidelines say

  3. 17.Pneumologie - N-acetylcystein in the therapy of chronic bronchitis

  4. 21.Rev Esp Anestesiol Reanim - The administration of 20 ppm of inhaled nitric oxide produces a faster response than the inhalation of 5 ppm in adult respiratory distress syndrome

  5. 24.Eur Respir J - Mechanisms of increased epithelial lung clearance of DTPA in diffuse fibrosing alveolitis

  6. 26 & 28.NEJM - Prospective Study of the Association between Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Hypertension

Chapter 7: Gastoenterology

  1. 1.Nutr J - Consumption of fruits and vegetables in relation to the risk of developing acute coronary syndromes; the CARDIO2000 case-control study

  2. 2.New Scientist - Dark chocolate boosts antioxidant levels

  3. 3.JAMA - Effects of comprehensive lifestyle modification on blood pressure control: main results of the PREMIER clinical trial

  4. 4.US Department of Health and Human Services recommendation

  5. 5.Oral Dis - Oral signs and symptoms in relation to disease activity and site of involvement in patients with inflammatory bowel disease

  6. 6.Hosp Med - Gastro-oesophageal reflux: the disease of the millennium

  7. 7.Cochrane Database Syst Rev - Initial management strategies for dyspepsia

  8. 8.Primary Care Society for Gastroenterology - Decision points for the management of Helicobacter Pylori in primary care

  9. 10.NEJM - Absence of benefit of eradicating Helicobacter Pylori in patients with nonulcer dyspepsia

  10. 11.Gastrosource.com - Minor diffuse changes such as erythema, oedema and friability are not included, and the term mucosal break is introduced to encompass the old terms erosion and ulceration

  11. 12.Drugs - Esomeprazole: a review of its use in the management of acid-related disorders

  12. 12.Surg Endosc - Laparoscopic antireflux surgery: disease-related quality of life assessment before and after surgery in GERD patients with and without Barrett’s esophagus

  13. 13.Dis Colon Rectum - Ulcerative colitis: rectal dilations in a patient with refractory diarrhoea. Report of a case

  14. 14.Gastrointest Endosc - The prevalence, anatomic distribution, and diagnosis of colonic causes of chronic diarrhea

  15. 15.Gut - Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency: accuracy and clinical value of the uniformly labelled 13C-Hiolein breath test

  16. 16,17, 20, 21 & 22.BMJ - Constipation and its management

  17. 18.Nahrung - Sorption of copper, zinc and cobalt by oat and oat products

  18. 23.Int J Mol Med - Predictive factors for remission and death in 73 patients with autoimmune hepatitis in Japan

  19. 24.Postgrad Med J - Massive haematemesis and melaena from a Meckel’s diverticulum

  20. 26.Endoscopy - Ulcers and nonvariceal bleeding

  21. 27.Semin Gastrointest Dis - The critically ill liver patient: the variceal bleeder

  22. 30.Gastroenterology - Emergency sclerotherapy versus vasoactive drugs for variceal bleeding in cirrhosis: a Cochrane metaanalysis

  23. 31.Curr Treat Options Gastroenterol - Variceal Bleeding

  24. 35.Surg Radiol Anat - Radio-anatomic study of the pancreatic duct by MR cholangiopancreatography

  25. 36.Dig Surg - Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreaticography as a diagnostic tool for common bile duct stones. A comparison with ERCP and clinical follow-up

  26. 36.Surg Radiol Anat - Radio-anatomic study of the pancreatic duct by MR cholangiopancreatography

  27. 37.Am J Gastroenterol - Initial experience of wireless-capsule endoscopy for evaluating occult gastrointestinal bleeding and suspected small bowel pathology

  28. 38.Gastroenterol Hepatol - Budd-Chiari syndrome: our experience of 71 patients

  29. 39.Aliment Pharmacol Ther - Nutritional therapy in alcoholic liver disease

  30. 40.J Hepatol - Terlipressin plus albumin infusion: an effective and safe therapy of hepatorenal syndrome

  31. 42.The Lancet - Liver donation: safety comes first

  32. 43.Examination of nails

  33. 44.AJR Am J Roentgenol - Discrimination of alcoholic from virus-induced cirrhosis on MR imaging

  34. 45.AJR Am J Roentgenol. - Viral-induced cirrhosis: grading of severity using MR imaging

  35. 46.Taehan Kan Hakhoe Chi. - Early diagnosis and improved survival with screening for hepatocellular carcinoma

  36. 49.Drugs Aging. - Drug treatment of the complications of cirrhosis in the older adult

  37. 50.Int J Artif Organs - Clinical outcome of orthotopic liver transplantation

  38. 51.Liver - Calculation and interpretation of the hepatic iron index: A brief summary

  39. 53.Ann Intern Med - Osteoporosis in hemochromatosis: iron excess, gonadal deficiency, or other factors?

  40. 54.J Endocrinol Invest - Mineralocorticoid status and endocrine dysfunction in severe hemochromatosis

  41. 57.0 Diabete Metab - Haemoglobin AIc in patients on venesection therapy for haemochromatos

  42. 58.Liver Transpl Surg - Primary liver cancer and survival in patients undergoing liver transplantation for hemochromatosis

  43. 59.Hepatology - Prognostic factors for hepatocellular carcinoma in genetic hemochromatosis

  44. 60.Rinsho Ketsueki. - Successful treatment using iron depletion phlebotomy combined with recombinant erythropoietin after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for myelodysplastic syndrome complicated by secondary hemochromatosis

  45. 63.Rev Neurol - Wilson’s disease: a clinical case is presented with neuropsychiatric dominant form and probable physiopathology interpretation with magnetic resonance of the brain

  46. 65.Transplantation. - Benefit of transplantation in primary biliary cirrhosis between 1985-1997

  47. 66.Autoimmunity - Smooth muscle antibodies and type 1 autoimmune hepatitis

  48. 67.Taehan Kan Hakhoe Chi - Validation of international autoimmune hepatitis group scoring system for diagnosis of type 1 autoimmune hepatitis in Korea

  49. 69.Semin Liver Dis - Treatment of autoimmune hepatitis

  50. 71.Ann Surg - Late development of bile duct cancer in patients who had biliary-enteric drainage for benign disease: a follow-up study of more than 1,000 patients

  51. 72.Mutat Res - Liver fluke infection and cholangiocarcinoma: model of endogenous nitric oxide and extragastric nitrosation in human carcinogenesis

  52. 73.Trop Med Int Health - Clinical findings among 62 Thais with cholangiocarcinoma

  53. 74.Cancer - Neoadjuvant photodynamic therapy as a new approach to treating hilar cholangiocarcinoma

  54. 75.Hepatogastroenterology - Outcome after resection of central cholangiocarcinoma: preliminary experience with 46 patients in a single center

  55. 78.Gastroenterol - Secondary amyloidosis in ulcerative colitis--successful treatment with colchicine

  56. 79.Scand J Gastroenterol Suppl - Cost-effectiveness of colorectal cancer surveillance in ulcerative colitis

  57. 81.Aliment Pharmacol Ther - Rectal aminosalicylate therapy for distal ulcerative colitis: a meta-analysis

  58. 84.Drug Saf - Comparative tolerability of treatments for inflammatory bowel disease

  59. 85.BMJ - Management of Crohn’s disease

  60. 88.Gastroenterology - Efficacy and safety of retreatment with anti-tumor necrosis factor antibody (infliximab) to maintain remission in Crohn’s disease

  61. 89.Health Technol Assess - Systematic review and economic evaluation of the effectiveness of infliximab for the treatment of Crohn’s disease

  62. 90.Int J Colorectal Dis - Improvement in irritable bowel syndrome following ano-rectal surgery

  63. 92.J Infect - Giardia lamblia infections become clinically evident by eliciting symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome

  64. 93.Ann Intern Med - The relation of passage of gas an abdominal bloating to colonic gas production

  65. 95.Neurogastroenterol Motil - Efficacy of alosetron in irritable bowel syndrome: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

  66. 97.Minerva Med - Carcinoid tumour

  67. 98.Psychopharmacology (Berl) - Neuropsychological investigation into the carcinoid syndrome

  68. 99.Ann Biol Clin (Paris) - Chromogranin A: a marker of neuroendocrine tumors

  69. 100.Presse Med - Symptomatic relief of carcinoid syndrome by ketanserin. A case

  70. 102.Am J Gastroenterol - Juturi J. A case of biliary carcinoid presenting with pancreatitis and obstructive jaundice

  71. 103.J Travel Med - Tropical sprue after travel to Tanzania

  72. 104.Curr Gastroenterol Rep - A perspective on tropical sprue

  73. 105.Gut - Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency: accuracy and clinical value of the uniformly labelled 13C-Hiolein breath test

  74. 106.Arch Intern Med - Screening for alcohol problems in primary care: a systematic review

Chapter 8: Renal Medicine

  1. 2.Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network - Investigation of Asymptomatic Microscopic Haematuria in Adults

  2. 3.BMJ - Asymptomatic haematuria

  3. 4.Urology - Urinalysis, ultrasound analysis, and renal dynamic scintigraphy in acute appendicitis

  4. 5.Rev Med Interne - Pseudotumoral adenopathies, an unusual means of detecting systemic amyloidosis

  5. 6.Transplantation - Acute rejection presenting as nephrotic syndrome

  6. 8.Hinyokika Kiyo - Idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis with large vessel thrombosis

  7. 9.J Endourol - Laparoscopic treatment of retroperitoneal fibrosis

  8. 11.Diagn Cytopathol - Urine cytology in renal glomerular disease and value of G1 cell in the diagnosis of glomerular bleeding

  9. 12.Rinsho Byori - Evaluation of dysmorphic red cells in the urinary sediment

  10. 13.World J Gastroenterol -Role of hepatitis B virus infection in pathogenesis of IgA nephropathy

  11. 16.Clin Nephrol - Acute renal failure in idiopathic ephrotic syndrome

  12. 20.J Intern Med - Extrapolation of reciprocal creatinine plot is not reliable in predicting the onset of dialysis in patients with progressive renal insufficiency

  13. 21.The Lancet - Combination treatment of angiotensin-II receptor blocker and angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitor in non-diabetic renal disease (COOPERATE): a randomised controlled trial

  14. 22.Adv Perit Dial - Incremental initiation of peritoneal dialysis: current practice

  15. 23.NEJM - Stopping long-term dialysis. An empirical study of withdrawal of life-supporting treatment

  16. 24.Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd - Voluntary discontinuation of dialysis treatment by chronic dialysis patients

  17. 25.ASAIO J - End of life issues in ESRD. A study of three decision variables that affect patient attitudes

  18. 26.Pediatr Nephrol - Center volume effects in pediatric renal transplantation. A report of the North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study

  19. 27.Am J Surg - Selection of patients for renal artery repair using captopril testing

  20. 32.Rev Med Chil - Hemolytic-uremic syndrome and Streptococcus pneumoniae

  21. 33.BMJ - Cholesterol emboli syndrome

  22. 34.Clin Ther - Pharmacologic management of diabetic nephropathy

  23. 35.NEJM - Multifactorial intervention and cardiovascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes

  24. 36.Toxicol Clin Toxicol - Dural sinus thrombosis with severe hypernatremia developing in a patient on long-term lithium therapy

  25. 37.J Am Soc Nephrol - Inherited disorders of renal magnesium handling

  26. 38.Expert Rev Anticancer Ther - von Hippel-Lindau disease: recent advances and therapeutic perspectives

Chapter 9: Endocrinology

  1. 1 & 8.Diabetes Res Clin Pract - The prevention of type 2 diabetes - lifestyle change or pharmacotherapy? A challenge for the 21st century

  2. 2.BMJ - Training in flexible, intensive insulin management to enable dietary freedom in people with type 1 diabetes: dose adjustment for normal eating (DAFNE) randomised controlled trial

  3. 4.Insulin glargine: a new basal insulin

  4. 7.Lancet - Is there really an epidemic of type 2 diabetes?

  5. 9.J R Soc Med - Hidden diabetes in the UK: use of capture–recapture methods to estimate total prevalence of diabetes mellitus in an urban population

  6. 10.J Wound Care - Hot sand burns on the sole of a patient with diabetes

  7. 11 & 15.Circulation - Enalapril reduces the incidence of diabetes in patients with chronic heart failure: insight from the Studies Of Left Ventricular Dysfunction (SOLVD)

  8. 13.National service framework for diabetes

  9. 14.Lancet - Coffee consumption and risk of type 2 DM

  10. 16 & 18.NICE - Guidance on the use of glitazones for the treatment of type 2 diabetes

  11. 17.Postgrad Med - Constructing an algorithm for managing type 2 diabetes. Focus on role of the thiazolidinediones

  12. 20.Int J Clin Pract - Nateglinide (Starlix): update on a new antidiabetic agent

  13. 22.Drugs - Metabolic and additional vascular effects of thiazolidinediones

  14. 23.UK prospective diabetes study

  15. 27.Curr Opin Neurol - Update on diabetic neuropathy

  16. 28.Plast Reconstr Surg - Results of decompression of peripheral nerves in diabetics: a prospective, blinded study

  17. 29.Rev Neurol (Paris) - Rapidly evolving diabetic mononeuritis multiplex. Favourable outcome after immunosuppressive treatment

  18. 30.Semin Neurol - Diabetic amyotrophy: current concepts

  19. 31.Intern Med - Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy for diabetic amyotrophy

  20. 32.Rev Med Chir Soc Med Nat Iasi - Gastroparesis and its management

  21. 33.Ann Intern Med - Preventing progression to diabetes

  22. 34.Endocrine - High-dose calcium stimulation test in a case of insulinoma masquerading as hysteria

  23. 35.Br J Sports Med - Insulin as a drug of abuse in body building

  24. 36.Diabetes Res Clin Pract - Insulinoma accompanied by diabetes mellitus

  25. 37.Chir Ital - What preoperative assessment is necessary for insulinomas? Calculating the degree of waste: analysis of 29 cases

  26. 38.Surgery - Pitfalls in the surgical treatment of insulinoma

  27. 39.J Nucl Med - Thallium-201, technetium-99mtetrofosmin and iodine-131 in detecting differentiated thyroid carcinoma metastases

  28. 40.Surg Oncol Clin N Am - The use of imaging studies in the diagnosis and management of thyroid cancer and hyperparathyroidism

  29. 41.J Clin Endocrinol Metab - Thyroid acropachy: report of 40 patients treated at a single institution in a 26-year period

  30. 42.Eur J Endocrinol - Autoimmune thyroid disease: propagation and progression

  31. 43.J Endocrinol Invest - Toxic multinodular goiter in the elderly

  32. 44.Otolaryngol Clin North Am - Multinodular goiter

  33. 45.Endocr J - Familial occurrence of subacute thyroiditis

  34. 46.Thyroid - Severe thyrotoxicosis due to hyperfunctioning liver metastasis from follicular carcinoma: treatment with (131)I and interstitial laser ablation

  35. 47.J Toxicol Clin Toxicol - Lithium: thyroid effects and altered renal handling

  36. 48.Exp Clin Endocrinol Diabetes - Thyroidectomy in iodine induced thyrotoxic storm

  37. 49.BMJ - Thyrotoxicosis induced by iodine contamination of food - a common unrecognised condition?

  38. 50.Endocr J - Reducing effect of nadolol on serum levels of free thyroid hormones in hyperthyroidism

  39. 51.Pol Arch Med Wewn - Reversible thyrotoxic cardiomyopathy - report of three cases

  40. 52.South Med J - Thyrocardiotoxic embolic syndrome

  41. 53.Thyroid - Epidemiology and prevention ofgraves’ ophthalmopathy

  42. 59.Minerva Med - Primary hyperparathyroidism and peptic ulcer

  43. 60.Am Fam Physician - Hyperparathyroidism

  44. 61.BMJ - Cohort study on effects of parathyroid surgery on multiple outcomes in primary hyperparathyroidism

  45. 62.Eur J Endocrinol - Recurrence of hyperparathyroidism; a long-term follow-up after surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism

  46. 63.Ital J Orthop Traumatol - Clinical, histological, and chemical characterization of ectopic calcification in dialyzed and non-dialyzed patients

  47. 64.World J Surg - Subtotal parathyroidectomy in renal failure: still needed after all these years

  48. 65.Ann Surg - Long-term follow-up of patients with tertiary hyperparathyroidism treated by resection of a single or double adenoma

  49. 66.Genomics - STK25 is a candidate gene for pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism

  50. 67.Annu Rev Physiol - Multiple endocrine neoplasias

  51. 68.J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab - A concise genetic and clinical guide to multiple endocrine neoplasias and related syndromes

  52. 69.J Clin Endocrinol Metab - Clinical and molecular features of the Carney complex: diagnostic criteria and recommendations for patient evaluation

  53. 70.J Intern Med - Functional studies of the MEN1 gene

  54. 71.P R Health Sci J - Clinical profile of 128 subjects operated for primary hyperparathyroidism

  55. 72.Eur J Endocrinol - Familial isolated primary hyperparathyroidism--a multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 variant?

  56. 73.Semin Surg Oncol - Multiple endocrine neoplasias

  57. 74.Dermatol Clin Multiple endocrine neoplasia 2B (MEN 2B)/MEN 3

  58. 75.Aust N Z J Ophthalmol - Multiple endocrine neoplasia type two B. A case report with light and electron microscopic and immunohistochemical correlation

  59. 76.Anticancer Res - Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN)--an overview and case report - patient with sporadic bilateral pheochromocytoma, hyperparathyroidism and marfanoid habitus

  60. 77.Pediatr Dev Pathol - RET(Men2B)-transgene produces sympathoadrenal tumors but does not prevent intestinal aganglionosis in gdnf-/- or gfr alpha-1(-/-) mice

  61. 78.Osteoporos Int - Recovery of bone mineral density after surgical cure, but not by ketoconazole treatment, in Cushing’s syndrome

  62. 79.Rev Med Chil - Cushing’s syndrome: review of a national caseload

  63. 80.J Clin Endocrinol Metab - Optimal response criteria for the human CRH test in the differential diagnosis of ACTH-dependent Cushing’s syndrome

  64. 81.BMJ - Lesson of the Week: Addison’s disease

  65. 82.South Med J - Prompt differentiation of Addison’s disease from anorexia nervosa during weight loss and vomiting

  66. 83.Am J Gastroenterol - Gastrointestinal manifestations of Addison’s disease

  67. 84.AACN Clin Issues Crit Care Nurs - Adrenocortical insufficiency: a medical emergency

  68. 85.Scand J Gastroenterol - High frequency of coeliac disease among patients with autoimmune adrenocortical failure

  69. 86.Leuk Lymphoma - Primary adrenal lymphomaassociated with adrenal insufficiency: a distinct clinical entity

  70. 87.Clin Exp Rheumatol - SLE and acute Addisonian crisis due to bilateral adrenal hemorrhage: association with the antiphospholipid syndrome

  71. 88.Trop Geogr Med - Addison’s disease presenting withmarked eosinophilia and psychosis

  72. 89 & 90.South Med J - Prompt differentiation of Addison’s disease from anorexia nervosa during weight loss and vomiting

  73. 91.Endocrinol Metab Clin North Am - Autoantibodies in autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type II

  74. 92.Scand J Gastroenterol - High frequency of coeliac disease among patients with autoimmune adrenocortical failure

  75. 93 & 94.Ann Surg - Clinical experience over 48 years with pheochromocytoma

  76. 95.Am J Hypertens - Unilateral adrenal hyperplasia causing primary aldosteronism: limitations of I-131 norcholesterol scanning

  77. 98.Eur J Med Res - Erectile dysfunction: comparison of efficacy and side effects of the PDE-5 inhibitors sildenafil, vardenafil and tadalafil--review of the literature

  78. 99.NEJM - Hemodynamic Effects of Sildenafil in Men with Severe Coronary Artery Disease

  79. 100.J Clin Endocrinol Metab - Single and combined effects of growth hormone and testosterone administration on measures of body composition, physical performance, mood, sexual function, bone turnover, and muscle gene expression in healthy older men

  80. 101.Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) - Establishment of reference values for standard dose short synacthen test (250 microgram), low dose short synacthen test (1 microgram) and insulin tolerance test for assessment of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis in normal subjects

  81. 102.Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd - ‘Smart drugs’ enticements on the Internet

  82. 103.J Clin Endocrinol Metab - Effect of growth hormone (GH) and/or testosterone replacement on the prostate in GH-deficient adult patients

  83. 104.Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) - Recombinant human growth hormone treatment in elderly patients undergoing elective total hip replacement

  84. 105.NICE - Human growth hormone (somatropin) in adults with growth hormone deficiency

  85. 106.Eur J Endocrinol - The changing spectrum of TSH-secreting pituitary adenomas: diagnosis and management in 43 patients

  86. 108.Leg Med (Tokyo) - Sudden death due to pituitary apoplexy

  87. 109.ORL J Otorhinolaryngol Relat Spec - Pituitary apoplexy: a pathologic entity from an otolaryngologist’s view

  88. 111.Pituitary - Self image and quality of life in acromegaly

  89. 112.Pituitary - Roles of insulin-like growth factor-I and growth hormone in mediating insulin resistance in acromegaly

  90. 113.J Clin Endocrinol Metab - The prevalence and characteristics of colorectal neoplasia in acromegaly

  91. 114.J Assoc Physicians India - Toxic thyroid adenoma and acromegaly: an unusual association

  92. 115.J Endocrinol Invest - Improvement of left ventricular hypertrophy and arrhythmias after lanreotide-induced GH and IGF-I decrease in acromegaly. A prospective multi-center study

  93. 116.Eur J Endocrinol - Impact of successful transsphenoidal surgery on cardiovascular risk factors in acromegaly

  94. 117.J Endocrinol Invest - Effects of two different somatostatin analogs on glucose tolerance in acromegaly

  95. 118.Pituitary - Decreased insulin requirements after LARoctreotide but not after lanreotide in an acromegalic patient

  96. 120.J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab - Morbidity and mortality associated with vasopressin replacement therapy in children

  97. 121.Ren Fail - Emergency treatment of lithium-induced diabetes insipidus with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

Chapter 10: Neurology

  1. 1.Mol Psychiatry - A new framework for investigating antipsychotic action in humans: lessons from PET imaging

  2. 2.Proc Natl Acad Sci USA - Chronic antidepressant administration decreases the expression of tyrosine hydroxylase in the rat locus coeruleus

  3. 3.J Hand Surg [Am] - Crossed fingers and other tests of ulnar nerve motor function

  4. 4.J Hand Surg [Br] - Finger flexion sign for ulnar neuropathy

  5. 6.Headache - Possible parasympathetic contributions to peripheral and central sensitization during migraine

  6. 7.Exp Brain Res - Modulation of visual cortical excitability in migraine with aura: effects of 1 Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

  7. 8.Rev Hosp Clin Fac Med Sao Paulo - New migraine preventive options: an update with pathophysiological considerations

  8. 9.J Manipulative Physiol Ther - The efficacy of spinal manipulation, amitriptyline and the combination of both therapies for the prophylaxis of migraine headache

  9. 10.CNS Drugs -New and emerging prophylactic agents for migraine

  10. 11.BMJ - Rebreathing aborts migraine attacks

  11. 12.Otolaryngol Pol - Tinnitus in systemic diseases

  12. 13.The Lancet - Tinnitus after cycling

  13. 15.J Otolaryngol - Efficacy of amitriptyline in the treatment of subjective tinnitus

  14. 16.Arch Intern Med - A randomized trial of nortriptyline for severe chronic tinnitus. Effects on depression, disability, and tinnitus symptoms

  15. 17.Eur Radiol - Spinal cord tumors

  16. 18.Surg Neurol - Metastases of the spinal cord from remote neoplasms. Study of five cases

  17. 19.Br J Neurosurg - Schistosoma haematobium presenting as an intrinsic conus tumour

  18. 20.Dev Med Child Neurol - Bizarre posture and movement disorder with third ventricle astrocytoma

  19. 31.Neurology - How to identify psychogenic disorders of stance and gait. A video study in 37 patients

  20. 33.J Rehabil Med - Sitting up and transferring to a chair: two functional tests for patients with stroke

  21. 34.Technol Health Care - Overview of clinical trials with MITMANUS: a robot-aided neuro-rehabilitation facility

  22. 35.Nervenarzt - New developments in stroke rehabilitation based on behavioral and neuroscientific principles: constraint-induced therapy

  23. 38.Haematologia (Budap) - Multiple myeloma in sickle cell syndromes

  24. 52.The Lancet - Thunderclap headache as first symptom of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis

  25. 53.Rinsho Shinkeigaku - A case with an isolated cortical vein thrombosis

  26. 57.Presse Med - Cerebral venous thromboses

  27. 58.Head Injury

  28. 59.JAMA - Differential diagnosis of acute meningitis. An analysis of the predictive value of initial observations

  29. 60.APMIS - Rapid immunodiagnosis of streptococci and enterococci in blood cultures

  30. 64.Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

  31. 65.Epilepsy and catalepsy in Anglo-American literature between romanticism and realism: Tennyson, Poe, Eliot and Collins

  32. 66.NCSE post subarachnoid haemorrhage is refractory to therapy, and the prognosis is poor. Routine postoperative EEG monitoring of patients with SAH who are at high risk for NCSE, allowing earlier diagnosis and treatment, offers the best chance of improving outcomes

  33. 67.Acta Neurol Scand - Non-convulsive status epilepticus with marked neuropsychiatric manifestations and MRI changes after treatment of hypercalcaemia

  34. 68.Neurology - Nonconvulsive status epilepticus in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura

  35. 69.Cochrane Database Syst Rev - Cholinesterase inhibitors for dementia with Lewy bodies

  36. 69.Mov Disord - Rivastigmine in the treatment of parkinsonian psychosis and cognitive impairment: preliminary findings from an open trial

  37. 70.Schweiz Rundsch Med Prax - Vitamin B12 deficiency in geriatrics

  38. 71.Radiology - Cost-Effectiveness of PET in the Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease

  39. 74.NEJM - Use It or Lose It - Do Effortful Mental Activities Protect against Dementia?

  40. 75.CNS Drugs - The role of insulin resistance in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease: implications for treatment

  41. 76.J Alzheimers Dis - The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, smoking, and Alzheimer’s disease

  42. 77.Phytomedicine - Ginkgo extract or cholinesterase inhibitors in patients with dementia: what clinical trials and guidelines fail to consider

  43. 78.Stroke - Pulse pressure and risk of Alzheimer disease in persons aged 75 years and older: a community-based, longitudinal study

  44. 79.Pharmacol Res - Pravastatin inhibits proinflammatory effects of Alzheimer’s peptide Abeta(1-42) in glioma cell culture in vitro

  45. 81.JAMA - Participation in cognitively stimulating activities and risk of incident Alzheimer disease

  46. 83.NEJM - Rethinking the Role of Tube Feeding in Patients with Advanced Dementia

  47. 87.Rev Neurol - Use of lamotrigine in the treatment of absence epilepsy crises

  48. 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

  49. 91.Clin Neuropharmacol - Successful use of donepezil for the treatment of psychotic symptoms in patients with Parkinson’s disease

  50. 91.Exp Gerontol - mt4216C variant in linkage with the mtDNA TJ cluster may confer a susceptibility to mitochondrial dysfunction resulting in an increased risk of Parkinson’s disease in the Irish

  51. 92.J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry - Multidisciplinary rehabilitation for people with Parkinson’s disease: a randomised controlled study

  52. 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

  53. 96.Drugs Aging - Comparative tolerability of the newer generation antiparkinsonian agents

  54. 97.Cochrane Database Syst Rev - Anticholinergics for symptomatic management of Parkinson’s disease (Cochrane Review)

  55. 98.Prescrire Int 2002 - Selegiline: a second look. Six years later: too risky in Parkinson’s disease

  56. 99.J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry - High incidence and prevalence of multiple sclerosis in south east Scotland: evidence of a genetic predisposition

  57. 100.BMJ - Multiple sclerosis Self reported stressful life events and exacerbations in multiple sclerosis: prospective study

  58. 101.NEJM - Antimyelin Antibodies as a Predictor of Clinically Definite Multiple Sclerosis after a First Demyelinating Event

  59. 102.Drugs - Early intervention in multiple sclerosis: better outcomes for patients and society?

  60. 104.Curr Treat Options Neurol - Disease-modifying Therapies for MS

  61. 105.BMJ - Drug 105. J Rehabil Med - Long-term modification of spasticity

  62. 106.Diagnostic Criteria for Multiple Sclerosis

  63. 107.The Cleveland Clinic Foundation - MRI Criteria for Brain Abnormality: Space and Time Dissemination

  64. 108.J Fr Ophtalmol - Bilateral papilledema in young women: two case reports of benign intracranial hypertension?

  65. 109.Curr Opin Ophthalmol - Elevated intracranial pressure and pseudotumor cerebri

  66. 110.Rev Electroencephalogr Neurophysiol Clin - Epilepsy beginning between 18 and 39 years of age

  67. 111.Arch Neurol - Right parietal stroke with Gerstmann’s syndrome. Appearance on computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and single-photon emission computed tomography

  68. 112.Optometry - Dorsal midbrain syndrome secondary to a pineocytoma

  69. 116.Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg - Scarless lip rehabilitation for the adynamic lip

  70. 117.Tohoku J Exp Med - Retroauricular pain preceding Bell’s palsy: report of three cases and clinical analysis

  71. 118 & 124.J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry - Ramsay Hunt syndrome

  72. 119.Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol - Outcome of treatment with valacyclovir and prednisone in patients with Bell’s palsy

  73. 120.J Neurol - Viral infections of the CNS with special emphasis on herpes simplex infections

  74. 121.Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol - Outcome of treatment with valacyclovir and prednisone in patients with Bell’s palsy

  75. 122.Cochrane Database Syst Rev - Links Aciclovir for Bell’s palsy (idiopathic facial paralysis)

  76. 125.Sarcoidosis Vasc Diffuse Lung Dis - Differential diagnosis of facial nerve palsy

  77. 126.Am J Otol - Episodic facial paralysis due to temporal bone pneumocele: a case report

  78. 127.Can J Anaesth - Unilateral trigeminal and facial nerve palsies associated with epidural analgesia in labour

  79. 128.Muscle Nerve - Neuralgic amyotrophy: an increasingly diverse entity

  80. 130.J Am Acad Orthop Surg - Compressive ulnar neuropathies at the elbow: I. Etiology and diagnosis

  81. 131.Night splints

  82. 132.Ulnar nerve entrapment

  83. 133.Instr Course Lect - Compressive neuropathies of the ulnar nerve at the elbow and wrist

  84. 134.J Neuropathol Exp Neurol - Dominantly inherited peripheral neuropathies

  85. 135.J Peripher Nerv Syst - Resolution of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathyassociated central nervous system lesions after treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin

  86. 136.Hawaii Med J - Therapy with hypertonic saline in combination with anti-convulsants for hyponatremia-induced seizure: a case report and review of the literature

  87. 137.Acta Neurol Belg - Improvement of central pontine myelinolysis as demonstrated by repeated magnetic resonance imaging in a patient without evidence of hyponatremia

  88. 138.BMJ - US links motor neurone disease with Gulf war service

  89. 139.J Biol Inorg Chem - The perplexing role of copper-zinc superoxide dismutase in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease)

  90. 140.J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry - Effect of a multidisciplinary amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) clinic on ALS survival: a population based study, 1996-2000

  91. 143.Neurol Neurochir Pol - Pathogenesis of ALS: implications for treatment strategies

  92. 145.Amyotroph Lateral Scler Other Motor Neuron Disord - A double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial of alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) in the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

  93. 146.Curr Biol - Inhibiting axon degeneration and synapse loss attenuates apoptosis and disease progression in a mouse model of motoneuron disease

  94. 151.Cochrane Database Syst Rev - Scapular fixation in muscular dystrophy

  95. 152.Muscle Nerve - Unusual clinical presentations in patients harboring the facioscapulohumeral dystrophy 4q35 deletion

  96. 153.Spine - Spinal deformities in patients with muscular dystrophy other than Duchenne. A review of 11 patients having surgical treatment

  97. 154.Ophthalmology - An ice test for the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis

  98. 155.Neurol Sci - High-dose intravenous immunoglobulin G treatment of myasthenia gravis

  99. 156.Acta Neurol Scand - Intravenous immunoglobulin in the preparation of thymectomy for myasthenia gravis

  100. 157.Chin Med J - Diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of thymoma: an analysis of 116 cases

  101. 159.Q J Med - A clinical study of type 2 neurofibromatosis

  102. 160.Surg Neurol - Links Intradural spinal arachnoid cysts in adults

  103. 161.J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry - Hypothesis on the pathophysiology of syringomyelia based on simulation of cerebrospinal fluid dynamics

  104. 162.The Lancet - A cough, then respiratory failure

  105. 163.Eye - Ocular manifestations of hindbrain-related syringomyelia and outcome following craniovertebral decompression

  106. 164.Arch Phys Med Rehabil - Total knee arthroplasty in a patient with bilateral Charcot knees

  107. 165.Joint Bone Spine - Destructive hip disease complicating traumatic paraplegia

  108. 166.J Belge Radiol - Neuropathic arthropathy of the shoulder secondary to syringomyelia

  109. 167.J Rheumatol - Neuropathic arthropathy (Charcot joints) due to cervical osteolysis: a complication of progressive systemic sclerosis

  110. 168.Virology - Human T cell leukemia virus type Iinduced disease: pathways to cancer and neurodegeneration

  111. 169.Neural Netw - Three Centuries of Category Errors in Studies of the Neural Basis of Consciousness and Intentionality

  112. 170.Information Sciences - Comparison of Brain Models

  113. 171.The Lancet - Modification of attitudes to influence survival from breast cancer

  114. 172.J Am Geriatr Soc - Emotional well-being predicts subsequent functional independence and survival

Chapter 11: Rheumatology

  1. 1.Ballet Magazine - Francois Verret’s interpretation of Robert Musil’s novel ‘The Man Without Qualities’

  2. 4.Spine - The test of Lasegue: systematic review of the accuracy in diagnosing herniated discs

  3. 10.Clin Infect Dis - Pneumococcal septic arthritis: review of 190 cases

  4. 15.Osteoarthritis Cartilage - C-reactive protein as a biomarker of emergent osteoarthritis

  5. 16.BMJ - Gout

  6. 18.Arthritis Rheum - Inorganic pyrophosphate in metabolic diseases predisposing to calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal deposition

  7. 19.J Rheumatol - Prospective use of intramuscular triamcinolone acetonide in pseudogout

  8. 21.Arch Intern Med - Structural and symptomatic efficacy of glucosamine and chondroitin in knee osteoarthritis: a comprehensive meta-analysis

  9. 22.Ann Pharmacother - Glucosamine

  10. 24.Is juvenile rheumatoid arthritis/juvenile idiopathic arthritis different from rheumatoid arthritis?

  11. 25.Acta Derm Venereol - Dermatomyositis in 132 patients with different clinical subtypes: cutaneous signs, constitutional symptoms and circulating antibodies

  12. 25.Arch Mal Coeur Vaiss - Pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension complicating CREST syndrome. Apropos of a case

  13. 26.Curr Opin Rheumatol - Scleroderma overlap syndromes

  14. 29.J Rheumatol - Effect of iloprost infusion on the resistance index of renal vessels of patients with systemic sclerosis

  15. 30.Minerva Med - Dermatomyositis: diagnosis, evaluation and management

  16. 30.Curr Opin Investig Drugs - Intravenous immunoglobulin: an emerging treatment for immune-mediated skin diseases

  17. 33.Emin Nephrol - New prospects for treatment of lupus nephritis

  18. 34.Medicine (Baltimore) - Adrenal involvement in the antiphospholipid syndrome: clinical and immunologic characteristics of 86 patients

  19. 35.Lupus -Evaluation of clinical and laboratory features of antiphospholipid syndrome: a retrospective study of 637 patients

  20. 36.Ophthalmology - The incidence of irreversible retinal toxicity in patients treated with hydroxychloroquine: a reappraisal

  21. 37.Transplantation - Recurrent lupus nephritis in renal transplant recipients revisited: it is not rare

  22. 38.Arthritis Rheum - Treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus by inhibition of T cell costimulation with anti-CD154: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

  23. 39.Rev Alerg Mex - New prospects for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus Iniestra

  24. 42 & 43.Med Klin - Neuropsychiatric involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus. Part 1: clinical presentation and pathogenesis

  25. 44.Hinyokika Kiyo - Erectile dysfunction arising from polyarteritis nodosa: a case report

  26. 45.The Lancet - Pyoderma gangrenosum and its treatment

Chapter 12: Oncology

  1. 1.NEJM - Use of Alternative Medicine - A Marker for Distress?

  2. 4.BMJ - Cancer care in the United Kingdom: new solutions are needed

  3. 9.Recent Results Cancer Res - Aromatase inhibitors in prevention data from the ATAC (arimidex, tamoxifen alone or in combination) trial and the design of IBIS-II (the second International Breast Cancer Intervention Study)

  4. 10.NEJM - Environmental and heritable factors in the causation of cancer: analyses of cohorts of twins from Sweden, Denmark, and Finland

  5. 11.Curr Treat Options Oncol - Superior vena cava syndrome

  6. 12.Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) - Radiological stenting provides effective palliation in malignant central venous obstruction

  7. 14.Support Care Cancer - Pan-European multicentre economic evaluation of recombinant urate oxidase (rasburicase) in prevention and treatment of hyperuricaemia and tumour lysis syndrome in haematological cancer patients

  8. 16.Semin Oncol - Treatment of hypercalcemia of malignancy with bisphosphonates

  9. 17.Clin Radiol - External radiotherapy in the management of malignant pericardial effusion

  10. 20.Pain Symptom Manage - Transdermal fentanyl in opioid-naive cancer pain patients: an open trial using transdermal fentanyl for the treatment of chronic cancer pain in opioid-naive patients and a group using codeine

  11. 21.Drug Saf - Prevention and management of extravasation of cytotoxic drugs

  12. 24.Aust Fam Physician - Fertility effects of cancer treatment

  13. 25.Contracept Fertil Sex - Conservation of sperm before cancer therapy. An efficient measure for preserving chances of future conception

  14. 26.Cancer - Testicular sperm extraction combined with intracytoplasmic sperm injection in the treatment of men with persistent azoospermia postchemotherapy

  15. 27.Early Pregnancy - Cryobiology in human assisted reproductive technology. Would Hippocrates approve?

  16. 28.Best Pract Res Clin Endocrinol Metab - Late reproductive sequelae following treatment of childhood cancer and options for fertility preservation

  17. 29.Telegraph - UK performs badly in cancer league

  18. 30.Arch Fam Med - Breast cancer trends of black women compared with white women

Chapter 13: Surgery

  1. 6.National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths (NCEPOD)

  2. 13.Bandolier - Systematic reviews on pain topics

  3. 15.Clin Exp Med - Variation of plasma D-dimer following surgery: implications for prediction of postoperative venous thromboembolism

  4. 16.Circulation - Combination of a Normal D-Dimer Concentration and a Non-High Pretest Clinical Probability Score Is a Safe Strategy to Exclude Deep Venous Thrombosis

  5. 27.Gastroenterology - Safety and efficacy of dynamic muscle plasty for anal incontinence: lessons from a prospective, multicenter trial

  6. 30 & 31.Handbook of Transfusion Medicine

  7. 34.NEJM - Preventing Complications of Central Venous Catheterization

  8. 35.Update in Anaesthesia - Clinical Management of Diabetes Mellitus During Anaesthesia and Surgery

  9. 38.The Lancet - Surgery in the obese

  10. 43.BMJ - Fertility patterns after appendicectomy: historical cohort study

  11. 56.NEJM - Urgent Colonoscopy for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Diverticular Hemorrhage

  12. 63.Emedicine - Acute small bowel ischaemia

  13. 64.Emedicine - Gastric volvulus

  14. 79.NEJM - Noninvasive detection of clinically occult lymph-node metastases in prostate cancer

  15. 81.NEJM - Quality of life after radical prostatectomy or watchful waiting

  16. 85.BMJ - Natural experiment examining impact of aggressive screening and treatment on prostate cancer mortality in two fixed cohorts from Seattle area and Connecticut

  17. 90.J Gen Intern Med - Isolated asymptomatic microhematuria: a cross-sectional analysis of test-positive and test-negative patients

  18. 91.BMJ- Time to abandon routine tests for microhaematuria?

  19. 92.Eur J Appl Physiol Occup Physiol -The effect of exercise intensity on hematuria in healthy male runners

  20. 97.Clin Breast Cancer -Epirubicin versus Doxorubicin: which is the anthracycline of choice for the treatment of breast cancer?

  21. 101.NICE - Full guidance on trastuzumab for advanced breast cancer

  22. 102.WHO working party report on breast cancer screening

  23. 108.NEJM - A Randomized Trial of Aspirin to Prevent Colorectal Adenomas

  24. 110.Postgrad Med J - Management of colorectal cancer

  25. 112.NEJM - Screening for colorectal cancer

  26. 116, 117 & 119.Gut - Guidelines on management of oesophageal and gastric cancer

  27. 128.Postgrad Med - Progress in the understanding of chronic anal fissure

  28. 130.The Oncologist - Carcinoma of the Anus: Strategies in Management

  29. 135.NEJM - A Comparison of Suture Repair with Mesh Repair for Incisional Hernia

  30. 136.BMJ - Why does NICE not recommend laparoscopic herniorraphy?

  31. 139.NICE guidelines

  32. 145.J Gastroenterol Hepatol - Long-term effect of alpha-glucosidase inhibitor on late dumping syndrome

  33. 146.Int Surg - Metabolic problems after gastric surgery

  34. 147.Surgery - Afferent loop obstruction presenting as acute pancreatitis and pseudocyst: case reports and review of the literature

Chapter 14: Infectious Diseases

  1. 1.Meningitis Research Foundation - Since 2000 there have been outbreaks of the meningitis W135 strain amongst pilgrims to Hajj. Vaccination against meningitis A and C does not protect against this strain

  2. 7.BMJ - Sensitivity of 93.3%, specificity 98.3%, a positive predictive value of 95.6%, and a negative predictive value of 97.4%

  3. 13.BMJ - Periodic fevers enter the era of molecular diagnosis

  4. 15.The Mercury News - World sees an explosion in new infectious diseases

  5. 17.J Clin Virol - Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia

  6. 19.Baillieres Clin Rheumatol - Viral infections: alpha-viral arthropathy

  7. 20.J Clin Microbiol - Rapid detection and quantification of RNA of Ebola and Marburg viruses, Lassa virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, Rift Valley fever virus, dengue virus, and yellow fever virus by real-time reverse transcription-PCR

  8. 35.BMJ - Travel medicine

  9. 37.BMJ - Malaria

  10. 38.BMJ - Multidrug resistant tuberculosis

  11. 39.BMJ - Drug resistant tuberculosis can be controlled, says WHO

  12. 43.BMJ - Current medical treatment for tuberculosis

  13. 50, 51 & 52.BMJ - Rapid virological surveillance of community influenza infection in general practice

  14. 60.NEJM - Suppressing Hepatitis B without Resistance - So Far, So Good

  15. 61.NEJM - Hepatitis B Antigen and the Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

  16. 63.NEJM - Peginterferon Alfa-2a plus Ribavirin for Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection

  17. 66.FDA News - FDA approves new rapid HIV test kit

  18. 67.NEJM - Prophylaxis against Opportunistic Infections in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

  19. 68.NEJM - Discontinuation of Prophylaxis against Mycobacterium avium Complex Disease in HIV-Infected Patients Who Have a Response to Antiretroviral Therapy

  20. 70.NEJM - A Controlled Trial of Valganciclovir as Induction Therapy for Cytomegalovirus Retinitis

  21. 71.NEJM - Prophylaxis against Opportunistic Infections in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

  22. 72.J Inf Dis- Eradication of AIDS-Related Disseminated Mycobacterium avium Complex Infection after 12 Months of Antimycobacterial Therapy Combined with Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy

  23. 74.British HIV Association (BHIVA)

  24. 75.British National Fomulary

  25. 76.NEJM - Lopinavir-Ritonavir versus Nelfinavir for the Initial Treatment of HIV Infection

  26. 77.NEJM - Interactions among Drugs for HIV and Opportunistic Infections

  27. 78.BMJ - Sexually transmitted infections

  28. 81.JAMA - One terrorist group, Aum Shinrikyo, responsible for the release of sarin in a Tokyo, Japan, subway station in 1995 dispersed aerosols of anthrax and botulism throughout Tokyo on at least 8 occasions. For unclear reasons, the attacks failed to produce illness. Anthrax as a Biological Weapon Medical and Public Health Management

  29. 93.NEJM - Typhoid Fever

  30. 97.WHO epidemiological data on Leprosy

  31. 100.BMJ - Leprosy elimination”a virtual phenomenon or a reality?

  32. 103.BMJ - Syphilis: old problem, new strategy

  33. 107.The Lancet - Polio-endemic countries pledge to boost eradication efforts in 2004

  34. 108.NEJM - The Final Stages of the Global Eradication of Polio

  35. 109.The Lancet - Early indicators in acute dengue infection

  36. 110.Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo Molecular typing of dengue virus type 2 in Brazil

  37. 116.NEJM - Fluconazole for the Treatment of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Caused by Leishmania major

  38. 123.NEJM- - Treatment is with intravenous voriconazole (two doses of 6 mg per kilogram of body weight on day 1, then 4 mg per kilogram twice daily for at least seven days) followed by 200 mg orally twice daily

  39. 124.NEJM - Capsofungin was shown in one trial to be at least as effective as Amphotericin B in the treatment of invasive candidiasis

  40. 130.Global Alliance to eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis

Chapter 15: Haematology

  1. 30.BMJ - Stem cell transplantation

  2. 35.Medicine (Baltimore) - Amyloidosis: review of 236 cases

Chapter 16: Clinical Chemistry

  1. 3.Heart - Left ventricular remodelling and brain natriuretic peptide after first myocardial infarction

Chapter 18: Eponymous Syndromes

  1. 1.NEJM - Behcet’s disease

  2. 2.NEJM - IgA Nephropathy

  3. 3.J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol - Phenotypic characterization of a large European family with Brugada syndrome displaying a sudden unexpected death syndrome mutation in SCN5A

  4. 4.J Gastroenterol Hepatol - Budd-Chiari syndrome: our experience of 71 patients

  5. 6.NEJM - Detection of Pathologic Prion Protein in the Olfactory Epithelium in Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

  6. 8.Transplantation - Successful liver transplantation of two brothers with crigler-najjar syndrome type 1 using a single cadaveric organ

  7. 10.NEJM - Molecular Pathogenesis of Cholestasis

  8. 11.EDTNA ERCA J - Restless legs syndrome: a review for the renal care professionals

  9. 12.NEJM - New Therapies for Fabry’s Disease

  10. 13.The Haematology Journal - Inherited aplastic anaemia

  11. 14.Journal of Gastroenterology - Complete regression of colonic adenomas after treatment with sulindac in Gardner’s syndrome: a 4-year follow-up

  12. 15.NEJM - Narcolepsy and the HLA System

  13. 17.E J Clin Neurosci - Huntington’s disease: neurological assessment of potential gene carriers presenting for predictive DNA testing

  14. 20.Emedicine - Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome

  15. 22.Cardiology - Loffler’s endomyocarditis in the idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome

  16. 23.Emedicine - Lown-Ganong-Levine Syndrome

  17. 24.Archives of Neurology - Treatment of McArdle Disease (Phosphorylase Deficiency - MPD or PYGM)

  18. 27.NEJM - Neostigmine for the Treatment of Acute Colonic Pseudo-Obstruction

  19. 28.NEJM - Liver Disease in Patients with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia

  20. 29.Cancer - The conservative management of Paget’s disease of the breast with radiotherapy

  21. 30.J Urol - Iontophoresis for treatment of Peyronie’s disease

  22. 31.J Urol - Peyronie’s disease: a review

  23. 32.Expert Opin Investig Drugs - Sjogren’s syndrome: evolving therapies

  24. 33.Arch Dermatol - Intravenous immunoglobulin treatment for Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis: a prospective noncomparative study showing no benefit on mortality or progression

  25. 34.Dermatology Online Journal - Treatment of severe drug reactions: Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis and Hypersensitivity syndrome

Chapter 19: Practical Procedures

  1. 1.James Joyce, 1922 Ulysses, page 272-3. Pengnin

  2. 2.J Am Geriatr Soc - Urinary catheters: what type do men and their nurses prefer?

  3. 7.BMJ - Headaches after diagnostic dural punctures

Chapter 20: Emergencies

  1. 14.NEJM - Effect of Intravenous Omeprazole on Recurrent Bleeding after Endoscopic Treatment of Bleeding Peptic Ulcers

  2. 16.The Lancet - Averting a malaria disaster

  3. 19.Mayo Clin Proc - Antiparasitic agents

  4. 21.S Afr Med J - Hyperosmolar non-ketotic diabetic coma as a cause of emergency hyperglycaemic admission to Baragwanath Hospital

  5. 24.Toxbase