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Case 1Tessa, 20 years of age, presents with chest pains of 10 hours duration. She was last at your clinic one month ago with gastroenteritis.Question 1Chest pain most characteristic of pericarditis...
DefinitionAn aneurysm is an artery that has enlarged to greater than 1.5 times the expected diameter.1 In the infrarenal aorta, the threshold diameter is accepted as 3.0 cm in the Caucasian...
Warfarin is a commonly used medication for the prevention and treatment of venous thromboembolism. It can be challenging for both the patient and the prescriber to manage at times.
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Ximelagatran, the first of the alternative agents to be developled, is a direct thrombin inhibitor. It showed clinical efficacy in non-valvular atrial fibrillation and venous thromboembolic disease...
Case 1: MavisMavis is an office worker aged 58 years who presents with a 2-year history of worsening left knee pain and swelling that are now preventing her from playing golf. Her body-mass index...
In community practice, patients who require further investigation have variable presentations but most commonly these include chest pain and/or dyspnoea. A chest X-ray (Figure 1) is a very useful...