Milena Leo,Tim Betts
Milena Leo
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained heart rhythm disturbance. Estimates suggest an AF prevalence as high as 2% in adults with an exponential relationship with increasing age. AF is associated with a 1.5-2 fold increased ri...
Review
The Practitioner. 2016 Oct;260(1797):11-7. DOI: 2016
Jonathan Rees
Jonathan Rees
Editorial
The Practitioner. 2016 Oct;260(1797):5. DOI: 2016
Alastair M Hull,Frank M Corrigan,Stephen A Curran
Alastair M Hull
While the common perception of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is of an individual suffering from a single traumatic event, clinicians need to be aware of those people who have been exposed to multiple potentially traumatic events. Ty...
Olivier Gaillemin,Fiona McGill
Olivier Gaillemin
Bacterial meningitis and meningococcal sepsis are rare in adults. Any diagnostic delays with subsequent delay to treatment can have disastrous consequences. The decline in bacterial meningitis over the past few decades has not been accompan...
Sarah Taylor,Alan J Lobo
Sarah Taylor
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) may previously have received a diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome and there may be a delay in making the correct diagnosis. This is particularly the case in patients with ileal Crohn's disea...
Michelle S Y Lau,Andrew D Hopper,David S Sanders
Michelle S Y Lau
The common presentation of coeliac disease has shifted from the historically classical symptoms of malabsorption in childhood to non-classical symptoms in adulthood such as irritable bowel syndrome-type symptoms, anaemia, chronic fatigue, c...
Chlamydia infection raises long-term risk of reproductive complications [0.03%]
沙眼衣原体感染会增加长期生育并发症的风险
Richard Ma
Richard Ma
Editorial
The Practitioner. 2016 Jul-Aug;260(1795):5. DOI: 2016
David Haslam
David Haslam
Margaret G Keane,Charles Hensher,Stephen P Pereira
Margaret G Keane
Morbidity and mortality associated with cirrhosis are on the increase. In a recent UK cohort study the incidence of cirrhosis increased by 50.6% between 1998 and 2009. Although all causes of liver disease increased during this period, this ...
James G Shepherd,Ann L N Chapman
James G Shepherd
More than 25% of the world population has been infected with tuberculosis (TB), however only 10% of those infected will ever develop active disease. Clinically significant disease occurs through progression of primary infection or through l...