Vascular Physician

DECEMBER 21, 2022

As a result, your kidneys may not be able to properly function, which can lead to other serious health complications. The majority of individuals who develop RAS also have atherosclerosis, a condition that causes sticky plaque to build up on the inside of your artery walls. How Common is RAS?

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Plum Health

MAY 19, 2023

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Vascular Physician

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This is because both diabetes and PAD have many of the same risk factors and complications. If you have been diagnosed with diabetes, keeping your blood sugar under control is a proactive way to lower your risk of developing PAD or other complications including stroke and heart attack.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

No other tasks were associated with lifetime heavy use, recent use, or dependence diagnosis. It’s more complicated than that. Differences in demographic variables, age at first cannabis use, alcohol use, or nicotine use did not explain these results. We need to engage in conversations about what can harm and what can help.

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PEMBlog

MAY 1, 2025

Well break down the virology, epidemiology, clinical presentation, and complications of Parvovirus B19. Clinical Manifestations and Diagnosis of Parvovirus B19 Infection. Only about 25% of infected individuals will have this classic rash syndrome. Finally, lets talk about some rare neurologic complications. Parvoviruses.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

Donors, government ministries, agencies and academic partners regularly cascade requests for data that multiply and complicate the simple interaction into a complex, and often redundant, set of data requirements for the same singular interaction. Mobile phone penetration has finally exceeded 90% in low- and middle-income countries.

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AMMD

MARCH 10, 2025

1) If left unchecked, serious issues like malnutrition, digestive problems, and long-term health complications are the next step. However, for some individuals, it can trigger an inflammatory response. Here’s where gluten comes in—some research suggests that gluten can act as a trigger in certain individuals. The result?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. One of your articles addresses that.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We also talk about the importance of a proactive approach to involving speech-language pathologists in the care of individuals early on with neurodegenerative diseases like dementia and ALS. So as you mentioned, dementia, there’s some research that show about 86% or 93% of those individuals will get that. Raele: Yes, of course.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What should we use to screen individuals? So people who have Medicare mostly fee for service in a dementia diagnosis should have access to a care, essentially a care navigator for the duration of their condition, or at least the duration of the program. Who should get it if anyone? What happens after they test positive?

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CDOCS

APRIL 7, 2021

<p><span style="font-size:14px;">Dental technologies are constantly being developed, and each clinician must decide which innovations best fit their individual practice needs. Some other uses for CBCT are when I sense complicated anatomy, resorption, perforations, or instrument failures.</span></p>

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical. Again, otherwise the diagnosis is based on history and physical examination.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

-@AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of life care Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex Smith: This is Alex Smith. Is that your experience?

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Incontinence and avoiding issues can present in an older individual, in some cases, just like they do a younger person. Biological aging or physiological aging varies from individual to individual. How do you think about this from a clinical perspective when you’re seeing individuals in your office? Everybody ages.

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Rao Doctor

APRIL 3, 2025

In case you have missed it, click below to read- FEVER FAQ- Part 1 Fever Diagnosis: How is your health assessed? When assessing a fever, we doctors employ a systematic approach to ensure accurate diagnosis and effective management. Understanding the patient’s medical history is crucial for an accurate diagnosis.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

But I would say that in terms of education, it’s really complicated because it’s so confounded by socioeconomic status and so many social determinants of health. I’m thinking of chronic pain, for example, and individuals with chronic pain often have disturbed sleep or other conditions. So, that’s one thing.

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Mesa Family Physician

MAY 8, 2025

Why Preventive Health Maintenance Matters The importance of public health and individual wellness cannot be overstated. Tertiary Prevention and Long-Term Health In some cases, patients already living with chronic illness can still benefit from what’s called tertiary prevention —steps taken to reduce complications or improve quality of life.

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Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Unlike urgent care, which is suited for non-life-threatening conditions, the ER is designed to provide immediate, high-level care for severe complications from a sore throat, such as difficulty breathing, inability to swallow, or signs of a serious infection. Weakened immune systems increase the risk of complications — seek care sooner.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

And so there was a report in 2009 by the Institute of Medicine saying that we need to equip all of these individuals in caring for older person in an evidence based manner. There’s the complications associated with immune senescence, comorbidities, atypical clinical presentations. One of your articles addresses that.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? Eric: So we’re going to be talking about dementia and considerations around surgery for individuals with dementia. Fifty percent have a diagnosis in their record of decedents have dementia.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Hypertensive emergency is a clinical diagnosis characterized by a sudden and severe elevation in blood pressure accompanied by signs of acute end-organ dysfunction. Evaluation consists of lab studies, including CBC, CMP, BNP, troponin, UA, UDS, TSH with reflex to T4, and urine pregnancy test for individuals with a uterus.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

I’ve seen patients post transplant when they start having complications. They are complicated. They’re complicated from a symptom standpoint. And so I honestly think it has to do with how complex the diseases and the complications that come from it. Can you come and be in our clinic once a week?

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

By diagnosis? And that’s where things like diagnosis triggers, if you will, prognostic triggers, and then the ideal need-based triggers. Eric: Our outpatient service does have guides around diagnosis and prognosis. That gets really complicated as well. Alex: It gets very local and individualizes as you were saying.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

My favorite line from Emily’s paper: “Geriatric assent has not been widely adopted in clinical care, but bioethicists should advocate for this, as adoption of partial-involvement strategies can prolong the period in which individuals are (appropriately) engaged in decisions about their health care.” This is Eric Widera. Lynn: Sure.

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GeriPal

MAY 4, 2023

Patients that remind us of loved ones, patients that are often younger, really hard stories, complicated issues. The whole idea of holding hope seems also so much more complicated for younger people because the hopes that they had, the normal hopes are not likely to be realized. What are the patients that we remember? Abby: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We discuss with her how we should work-up and manage “urinary tract infections” (I’ve added air quotes to “UTI” in honor of Tom Finucane’s JAGS article titled “Urinary Tract Infection”—Requiem for a Heavyweight in which he advocated to put air quotes around the term UTI due to the ambiguity of the diagnosis.). That’s how I would do it.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of. I thought that was an interesting take on doing this, because a mother-daughter relationship can be complicated, can be wonderful, and it’s hard to navigate when you lose your mother. I often say that doulas are mirrors. Again, I go back to this.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 29, 2024

We must often deliver complex medical information that carries heavy emotional weight in pressured settings to individuals with varying cultural backgrounds, values, and beliefs. So the first thing, explain the diagnosis. This is a complicated case. Summary Transcript CME Summary Serious illness communication is hard.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about this complicated topic that a lot of people have differing opinions to and potentially very strong opinions, medical aid in dying. Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. So it started off for individuals with a terminal illness. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. So for the stepped care model, all patients see palliative care at the time of diagnosis.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. Melissa: The other scenario that exists is just disenrollment because an individual is hospitalized. People with dementia make up about half of hospice admissions. Melissa, what are your thoughts on that?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

So we’re going to be talking about palliative care for individuals with mental illness. Depending on your geography, who you are as an individual, the ethical parameter you’re considering. But some of the nuance I would want to point out is that, like Brent mentioned, first of all, this is not a diagnosis.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Holly has accumulated mountains of evidence for the diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder as a specific condition primarily notable for a yearning over a year after the death. It’s complicated, it’s messy. How does that defer from is it complicated grief, prolonged grief disorder? Holly: Oh absolutely.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Eric: So Scott, two questions for you then is since this is aimed, POLST is people with limited life expectancy, we also have no randomized control trials of CPR of individuals in this population. Gretchen Schwarze like surgery, four things, live longer, feel better, be more functional, make a diagnosis. You write who the surrogate is.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

It’s easier to concentrate on cure, diagnosis, cure. When we think about palliative care delivered here, like individuals with chronic pain, non-serious illness chronic pain, non-life threatening illness, oftentimes if we get consulted on them, we don’t even see them, may just be discontinued in most palliative care places.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

But the HIV we do see, and it feels tragic because the people who are dying of and affected by the more kind of traditional, if you call it that, kinds of complications, some of which can be fatal of HIV AIDS are the people who are not on treatment. Is a new diagnosis of HIV. If they did, it was before AIDS was a diagnosis.

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