Next next week: Microbiology Review II

Next week: Microbiology review I

 
Diagnosis of colorectal polyps used to be a rare event, but nowadays its frequency is increasing because of the ever-increasing use of colonoscopy for evaluation of patients. So in my opinion learning about the different types of polyps and refreshing this topic can help us sooner than we expect.

  Next week: Pneumonia.

  Next week: Colorectal polyps.

  Septic arthritis is a disease that can have so many agents that predicting its outcome is very difficult. But fortunately the most common causes include bacteria that have many different antibiotics we can use.

Next week: Response to injury.

  Bronchiectasis is a topic that is always mentioned as a differential diagnosis of many pulmonary diseases, but it rarely is the diagnosis. This is because the incidence of bronchiectasis has not only decreased, but its diagnosis isn't very easy to catch.

Next week: Septic Artritis

  I was always intrigued as to how a case of neonatal jaundice could have gone on so long without a diagnosis. So in this episode I hope to review the topic and maybe help any of you who have some doubts about the topic so these cases become as rare as smallpox.

Next week: Bronchiectasis

Inflammatory bowel disease is actually the general description for two diseases:

1) Crohn's disease
2) Ulcerative Colitis

Clinically both diseases are similar in some respects and I imagine that in the past they were grouped together because of these clinical similarities. But recent studies have found that both actually have similar genetic markers and even similar response to certain therapies. So it seems they were far more related than initially thought.

Next Week: Neonatal Jaundice

Today's episode is a topic most frequently seen in pediatric surgery departments and pediatric oncology services.
When the words pediatric, surgery and oncology are all in the same sentence it normally is a very painful situation, but Wilms' tumor is one of those disease that can be considered a success story.  

Next week: Inflammatory Bowel disease

Today's episode deals with a subject that very sensitive and it should serve as a reminder to all of us, that when we treat patients with infertility we have to be responsive to how the disease can affect them and not make any assumptions on how they can feel.

Next week: Wilms Tumor

Myasthenia gravis is one of those diseases that used to be a very serious disorder, with a mortality of almost 30%. Thanks to advances in treatment, today it has a very low mortality rate.

Next week: Infertility

Attended:
The 6th International Symposium on Familial Amyloidotic Polyneuropathy and Other Transthyretin Related Disorders
&
The 5th International Workshop on Liver Transplantation in Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy

The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, California, USA August 24-26, 2005

And spent 1 week on vacation.

Next week for sure: Myasthenia gravis

Today's episode reviews shock. Due to the amount of information I recommend you complement the episode checking out any of the articles or chapters in todays references.

Next week: Myastenia gravis

In this episode I welcome you and give you an introduction to the program.
We review the simple structure of each episode and throw in a couple of disclaimers.
This weeks intro song: Tommorow by Morrissey. I am still looking for a good intro song, so if anybody out there can make a couple catchy tunes please send them my way.
Remember to send any comments to Medkast@gmail.com.

Next week: Shock