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The first article summarizes the practical aspects of choosing an antibiotic in a patient with a reported drug allergy. The second describes the presence of K103 resistant virus in CSF but not in plasma.
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Individuals caring for children must be prepared to diagnose and treat airway emergencies expeditiously. Appropriate management of acute upper airway obstruction tests the organization of emergency care systems. Successful management of airway emergencies in children requires a team approach, including the skills of the primary physician and the staff of the emergency department, radiology department, and operating room staff.
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One year later: Emergency department response to biological terrorism, part II - smallpox, viral hemorrhagic fevers, tularemia, and botulinum toxins
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Juvenile recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (also known as laryngeal papillomatosis), a condition with benign, wartlike tumors in the respiratory tract, may be associated with upper airway obstruction.
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Mesial temporal sclerosis is the most common pathology found in surgical series of patients undergoing temporal lobectomy for pharmacologically intractable focal epilepsy. A better understanding of the mechanisms leading to this neuropathological substrate for temporal lobe epilepsy should provide fundamental insights into the pathophysiology of epileptogenesis.
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Although syncope is common, its epidemiology and prognosis have not been well described. Soteriades and colleagues, therefore, evaluated the incidence, causes, and prognosis of syncope among men and women taking part in the Framingham Heart Study.
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The high lifetime prevalence of depression in MS, along with other variants of mood disorder including anxiety and bipolar-affective illness, should make the psychiatric complications of MS a central component of disease management. These studies provide an additional understanding of depression and suicidal behavior in patients with MS.
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No single antigen has yet been identified as the target in all patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, a presumed autoimmune disorder similar to chronic experimental allergic neuritis, where both humoral and cell-mediated immune responses have been documented. Evidence suggests that specific chemokines play a role in pathogenesis.
