Vascular Physician

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To diagnose this condition, your physician may perform screening tests, such as an ankle-brachial index test (ABI). In fact, sexual dysfunction is so often associated with Leriche Syndrome that the absence of this symptom suggests that another diagnosis should be considered. An ABI less than 0.9

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Hypertension Complication Patients Diagnosis 52

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Other complications include obstruction due to intussusception or volvulus, leading to bowel ischemia and shock. Recognizing the characteristic features and understanding the differential diagnosis is crucial in managing patients with lower gastrointestinal bleeding. The bleeding is usually painless. References Dixon P & Nolan D.

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Diagnosis Complication Consulting Management 64

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. It was discovered by accident back in 1975, so a little bit before I was born, and it was labeled B19 because of the sample number in a Hepatitis B screening panel.

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Complication Patient-Centered Patients Diagnosis 83

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

CT Imagin g: CT is recommended at diagnosis if lymphadenopathy or splenomegaly is present, or if clinically indicated. Notably, CT imaging is required prior to venetoclax-based therapy to assess the risk of tumor lysis syndrome (TLS), but it is not routinely used for diagnosis, surveillance, or treatment monitoring. ›

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Management Diagnosis Complication Screening 52

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. Given multiple areas of cortical hyperostosis in the absence of healing or acute fracture, a diagnosis of infantile cortical hyperostosis was made that was later confirmed with genetic testing. mg/dL] Phosphorus 6.7

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Routine Screenings Patient-Centered Diagnosis Clinic 59

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most common complication of diabetes mellitus and is the leading cause of blindness in working age Americans. Outcome Measures: The outcome of interest was receiving an annual eye exam in the preceding 12 months.

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Diabetes Screening Insurance Healthcare 130

Mesa Family Physician

MAY 8, 2025

It’s more than just visiting your doctor when something feels off—it’s about catching potential problems early, staying on top of health screenings, and setting goals that keep you feeling your best. Preventive care refers to medical services that focus on early detection, routine screenings, and health counseling.

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Preventative Care Preventive Care Wellness Visit Physicals 100

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Do you screen for lower urinary tract symptoms, incontinence, and if so, how? If I was going to ask one question about this just as a screen, is there a way to ask this question that is not both stigmatizing, but people also understand and it gets around some of these issues. Eric 08:05 Yeah. Eric 08:19 Sure thing, if I’m honest.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 120

Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 7, 2025

This plaque buildup is known as atherosclerosis, which can cause cardiac disease, stroke, and other severe conditions – making early cholesterol screening essential. Routine cholesterol screenings help assess your risk for cardiovascular disease so you and your healthcare provider can better understand your overall heart health.

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Screening Healthcare Family Medicine DO 52

Vascular Physician

MARCH 29, 2022

Consequently, screening for additional aneurysms upon diagnosis is highly recommended. Initial screening modalities include bilateral ultrasound (US), with CT angiography of the lower extremity if US results are inconclusive. cm in diameter.

Complication 52

Complication Screening Hypertension Patients 52

Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

During these regular appointments, doctors conduct various tests and screenings to catch issues early. If you have a chronic condition like asthma, diabetes, or arthritis, unexpected complications or flare-ups can occur at any time. Patients can receive consultations, diagnosis, and treatment without needing an overnight stay.

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Clinic Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Chronic Condition 52

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

We then walk through how we should screen for anxiety and how we should think about a differential. If they’ve said they had a traumatic experience receiving a diagnosis. And so in terms of, am I looking to put a DSM diagnosis to someone? What would be the benefit to myself, or hopefully for them to add a DSM diagnosis?

Illness 129

Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

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.

IT 102

IT Families Family Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

The ability to appreciate, recognize, and engage with music is preserved even until late stages of dementia, and Theresa is examining how music can be useful from the time of diagnosis, not only for the person with dementia, but their caregivers. Relationships are usually more complicated. You might see me on the TV screens next year.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 96

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.

Management 122

Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 122

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

I had it on my screen. 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. Jennifer: I think it’s such a complicated question. Jennifer: Yeah.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

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.

IT 100

IT Complication Relationship Specialization 100

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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Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 94

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I think the advanced planning debate is really a question of, how do we help this very complicated situation? That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? So I’m just going to share on my screen. We see how hard it is. We see when they don’t understand. We wonder if they were told. Juliet: Sure.

Illness 98

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

That’s what I had done with my abortion research, and I had also studied newborn screening policies evolving. For example, one physician that I interviewed with medical aid in dying, in the US everywhere except Montana, you need to have the diagnosis and prognosis confirmed by a second physician.

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Provider Medical Hospital Patient-Centered 19

GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

Ken Covinsky reminds us that we should not be making a diagnosis based on what we see on TV, and that if a patient’s daughter expressed a concern that their parent “wasn’t right,” we would conduct an in depth evaluation that might last an hour. You hear people, a lot of talking heads on tv. There is a tension.

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Diagnosis Diagnose IT Physicals 141