The aim of this review is to draw attention to a preventable childhood condition, detailing the clinical presentation, diagnostic pathway and management.
This article explores the impact of genetics on cardiovascular diseases and its implications for GPs.
In this issue of AJGP, we cover a wide range of cardiovascular conditions that GPs encounter in everyday practice, providing up-to-date information and management guidelines based on current evidence.
This paper provides an overview of exercise care in general practice to support sustained solutions for patients living with chronic disease.
Noncardiac chest pain is a cause of significant morbidity and can be responsible for a high personal cost and healthcare burden.
In late-stage Parkinson’s disease there is a shift to increasing disability from non-motor symptoms unresponsive to levodopa.
Imaging algorithms for coronary artery disease screening differ significantly from diagnostic studies evaluating cardiac symptoms including chest pain.
A woman aged 64 years presented with a few weeks of tiredness, night sweats and palpitations.
A woman aged 49 years presented with a 12-month history of an enlarging painless but pruritic perianal plaque 2 cm from the anal verge.
What was once a fatal disease at the severe end of the spectrum is becoming a treatable condition with improved functional status and outcomes.
Our understanding of COVID-19-related renal disease and the effect of the infection in patients with renal disease is still evolving.
The Focus articles in this issue explore COVID-19 renal disease, acute kidney injury, renal colic, paediatric urinary tract infections and haematuria.
The interface of general practice and kidney healthcare has never been more important than it is in our current pandemic world.
International rheumatology bodies now recommend multiple forms of exercise as part of the management of both osteoarthritis and the more classically inflammatory rheumatic disorders.
Patients can be empowered through understanding chronic kidney disease as not confined to a single organ system but as the antecedent and consequence of several pathophysiological processes.