Fred R Buckhold rd
Fred R Buckhold rd
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a disease that affects 1 million patients in the United States. Many excellent drug regimens exist that effectively suppress the viral load and improve immune function, but there are consequences of lon...
Christopher J Wong,Genevieve Pagalilauan
Christopher J Wong
Solid organ transplantation (SOT) is one of the major advances in medicine. Care of the SOT recipient is complex and continued partnership with the transplant specialist is essential to manage and treat complications and maintain health. Th...
Anna Volerman
Anna Volerman
Today more than 80% of children diagnosed with cancer are alive 5 years after diagnosis. Childhood cancer survivors encounter high rates of morbidity and mortality from late effects and, as a result, require long-term follow-up care. Care m...
Genji Terasaki,Nicole Chow Ahrenholz,Mahri Z Haider
Genji Terasaki
Refugees share a common experience of displacement from their country of origin, migration, and resettlement in an unfamiliar country. More than 17 million people have fled their home countries due to war, generalized violence, and persecut...
Jared Wilson Klein,Simha Reddy
Jared Wilson Klein
This article discusses the unique considerations when caring for patients who lack housing, one of the most essential human needs. Special attention is provided to diseases and conditions that are affected by homelessness as well as to part...
Douglas Berger,Katharine A Bradley
Douglas Berger
More than one in four American adults consume alcohol in quantities exceeding recommended limits. One in 12 have an alcohol use disorder marked by harmful consequences. Both types of alcohol misuse contribute to acute injury and chronic dis...
Jean R Park,Sheryl A Pfeil
Jean R Park
Inflammatory bowel disease involves 2 major disorders, ulcerative colitis and Crohn disease, both of which are due to inflammatory dysregulation in the gastrointestinal tract. Although these disorders have many overlapping features in patho...
Michael J Lenaeus,Jan Hirschmann
Michael J Lenaeus
Obstructive lung disease includes asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Because a previous issue of Medical Clinics of North America (2012;96[4]) was devoted to COPD, this article focuses on asthma in adults, and addresse...
Meghan M Kiefer,Michael J Ryan
Meghan M Kiefer
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is defined by reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate, increased proteinuria, or both. CKD affects more than 10% of US adults, or 20 million people, and the numbers are rising as the population ages. Howeve...
Jocelyn James,Iris W Liou
Jocelyn James
Chronic liver disease results from a wide range of conditions, for which individual management is beyond the scope of this article. General education, counseling, and harm reduction practices are important to the primary care of these patie...