Missouri hospitalist, issue 49 (2013 October-December)

 

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Contents

  • Hospitalist Update
    • Improving Primary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease by Increasing Documentation of Framingham Risk Scores / Jad Omran, Jim Koller, Mayank Mittal, and Brian Bostick
  • Case Report
    • 65-year-old male patient with left sided headache and orbital pain of 2-3 months duration / Tariq Enezate, Meryl Sundy, Scott A. Lucchese, and Lenworth N. Johnson
  • Original Article
    • High Vitamin B12 Level / Puja Nistala
  • Diagnostic Dilemma
    • Diagnostic Dilemma / Sudharshan Balla, and Mary L. Dohrmann
  • Ask a Specialist
    • Ask a Pathologist / Emily Coberly, and Magda Esebua
  • ID Corner
    • Laboratory Diagnosis of Infections / William Salzer
  • Conference Calendar
    • Missouri Hospitalist Calendar

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  • Laboratory diagnosis of infections 

    Salzer, William (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2013-10)
    Ever wonder what type of culture or test to order to diagnose an infection? Well, the IDSA haspublished guidelines which are arranged by anatomical site, with lots of tables that tell you what culture, Smear, PCR or serologic ...

  • Ask a pathologist 

    Coberly, Emily; Esebua, Magda (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2013-10)
    QUESTION: My patient has a palpable neck mass that is suspicious for malignancy, and I am considering ordering a fine needle aspiration (FNA) versus a core needle or open biopsy. Which typeof biopsy will have the fastest ...

  • Diagnostic dilemma 

    Balla, Sudharshan; Dohrmann, Mary (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2013-10)
    Questions: 1) A 68-year-old male was admitted for increasing shortness of breath. 2) A 45-year-old African American male presents to ER with increasing weakness.

  • High vitamin B12 level 

    Nistala, Puja (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2013-10)
    Vitamin B12/cobalamin functions as an important co-enzyme in the human body and is essential forpurine and pyrimidine synthesis. Vitamin B12 deficiency is a very well recognized clinical entity but the conditions leading ...

  • 65-year-old male patient with left sided headache and orbital pain of 2-3 months duration 

    Enezate, Tariq; Sundy, Meryl; Lucchese, Scott; Johnson, Lenworth (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2013-10)
    Despite advancement of neurotechnology and neuroimaging, detailed history and examination remain the most important tools for diagnosis of unilateral headache and orbital pain. Headache is a common symptom among all age ...

  • Improving primary prevention of coronary heart disease by increasing documentation of Framingham risk scores 

    Omran, Jad; Koller, Jim; Mittal, Mayank; Bostick, Brian (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2013-10)
    Heart disease is the leading cause of death in both men and women, accounting for nearly one-fourth of the deaths in the USA in 2010 [1]. Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the most common type of heart disease with about ...