Latest Updates

Noncandidal Fungal Infections

Brett A Melnikoff, MD, René P Myers, MD
    • Evidence for Aspergillus diagnosis best practice
    • Updated treatment options for patients with aspergillosis
    • Evidence for emerging noncandidal fungal pathogens

Noncandidal Fungal Infections

Brett A Melnikoff, MD, René P Myers, MD
    • Evidence for Aspergillus diagnosis best practice
    • Updated treatment options for patients with aspergillosis
    • Evidence for emerging noncandidal fungal pathogens

Candidiasis

Brett A Melnikoff, MD, René P Myers, MD
    • Updated treatment options for patients with candidiasis
    • Evidence for efficacy of rapid Candida species identification products
    • Enhanced understanding of antifungal prophylaxis

Feeding and Eating Disorders

Phillip S Mehler, MD, Patricia Westmoreland, MD
    • With the DSM-5, rumination and pica are now placed in the same chapter as bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa.
    • In the DSM-5, diagnoses were modified and expanded to better describe patient diversity, especially with respect to age.
    • According to a recent study, implementation of the DSM-5 criteria may dramatically reduce residual eating disorder diagnoses within clinical settings.

Pituitary, Thyroid, and Parathyroid Disorders and Considerations

Jill Yaung, MD
    • Endocrine emergencies, such as thyroid storm and myxedema coma, still carry a high mortality rate and need to be promptly managed.
    • Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion remains the most common cause of hyponatremia, a common electrolyte abnormality encountered in the critically ill.
    • Nonthyroidal illness syndrome, or euthyroid sick syndrome, may occur as a response to acute illness or stress and should be differentiated from underlying thyroid disease.

Critical Care: Diagnostic Imaging Techniques 

Phuong-Anh T. Duong, MD, Gerald W. Staton Jr, MD, FACP
    • Recently developed dual-energy chest radiographs can detect calcium in lesions or remove overlapping bone to confirm the presence of a lesion
    • Automatic tube current and tube potential modulation reduces computed tomography radiation risk by optimizing the radiation dose to the patient size and scan region
    • Positron emission tomography has limited applicability in low-grade adenocarcinoma and carcinoid tumors owing to poor fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in these clinical concerns

Caustic and Toxic Ingestions

CDR Thomas Q Gallagher, DO, CDR Robert L Ricca, MD
    • Use of steroids in the medical and surgical management of caustic injuries
    • Button batteries as a source of caustic injury
    • Management of strictures secondary to caustic injury, including stent placement
    • Initial medical management of caustic injury
    • Surgical management of caustic injury

Infertility

Alan H. DeCherney, MD, Katherine A Green, MD, Eric D. Levens, MD
    • Updates regarding the assessment and treatment of ovulatory disorders
    • Ovulation induction with letrozole in anovulatory patients
    • Advances in in vitro fertilization, including genetic screening
    • Fertility preservation options, including in vitro oocyte maturation, ovarian tissue cryopreservation, and mature oocyte cryopreservation
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