Chapters 10-20

Chapter 10: Neurology

1. Mol Psychiatry - A new framework for investigating antipsychotic action in humans: lessons from PET imaging
2. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA - Chronic antidepressant administration decreases the expression of tyrosine hydroxylase in the rat locus coeruleus
3. J Hand Surg [Am] - Crossed fingers and other tests of ulnar nerve motor function
4. J Hand Surg [Br] - Finger flexion sign for ulnar neuropathy
6. Headache - Possible parasympathetic contributions to peripheral and central sensitization during migraine
7. Exp Brain Res - Modulation of visual cortical excitability in migraine with aura: effects of 1 Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation
8. Rev Hosp Clin Fac Med Sao Paulo - New migraine preventive options: an update with pathophysiological considerations
9. J Manipulative Physiol Ther - The efficacy of spinal manipulation, amitriptyline and the combination of both therapies for the prophylaxis of migraine headache
10. CNS Drugs -New and emerging prophylactic agents for migraine
11. BMJ - Rebreathing aborts migraine attacks
12. Otolaryngol Pol - Tinnitus in systemic diseases
13. The Lancet - Tinnitus after cycling
15. J Otolaryngol - Efficacy of amitriptyline in the treatment of subjective tinnitus
16. Arch Intern Med - A randomized trial of nortriptyline for severe chronic tinnitus. Effects on depression, disability, and tinnitus symptoms
17. Eur Radiol - Spinal cord tumors
18. Surg Neurol - Metastases of the spinal cord from remote neoplasms. Study of five cases
19. Br J Neurosurg - Schistosoma haematobium presenting as an intrinsic conus tumour
20. Dev Med Child Neurol - Bizarre posture and movement disorder with third ventricle astrocytoma
31. Neurology - How to identify psychogenic disorders of stance and gait. A video study in 37 patients
33. J Rehabil Med - Sitting up and transferring to a chair: two functional tests for patients with stroke
34. Technol Health Care - Overview of clinical trials with MITMANUS: a robot-aided neuro-rehabilitation facility
35. Nervenarzt - New developments in stroke rehabilitation based on behavioral and neuroscientific principles: constraint-induced therapy
38. Haematologia (Budap) - Multiple myeloma in sickle cell syndromes
52. The Lancet - Thunderclap headache as first symptom of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis
53. Rinsho Shinkeigaku - A case with an isolated cortical vein thrombosis
57. Presse Med - Cerebral venous thromboses
58. Head Injury
59. JAMA - Differential diagnosis of acute meningitis. An analysis of the predictive value of initial observations
60. APMIS - Rapid immunodiagnosis of streptococci and enterococci in blood cultures
64. Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
65. Epilepsy and catalepsy in Anglo-American literature between romanticism and realism: Tennyson, Poe, Eliot and Collins
66. NCSE post subarachnoid haemorrhage is refractory to therapy, and the prognosis is poor. Routine postoperative EEG monitoring of patients with SAH who are at high risk for NCSE, allowing earlier diagnosis and treatment, offers the best chance of improving outcomes
67. Acta Neurol Scand - Non-convulsive status epilepticus with marked neuropsychiatric manifestations and MRI changes after treatment of hypercalcaemia
68. Neurology - Nonconvulsive status epilepticus in thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
69. Cochrane Database Syst Rev - Cholinesterase inhibitors for dementia with Lewy bodies
69. Mov Disord - Rivastigmine in the treatment of parkinsonian psychosis and cognitive impairment: preliminary findings from an open trial
70. Schweiz Rundsch Med Prax - Vitamin B12 deficiency in geriatrics
71. Radiology - Cost-Effectiveness of PET in the Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease
74. NEJM - Use It or Lose It - Do Effortful Mental Activities Protect against Dementia?
75. CNS Drugs - The role of insulin resistance in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease: implications for treatment
76. J Alzheimers Dis - The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, smoking, and Alzheimer's disease
77. Phytomedicine - Ginkgo extract or cholinesterase inhibitors in patients with dementia: what clinical trials and guidelines fail to consider
78. Stroke - Pulse pressure and risk of Alzheimer disease in persons aged 75 years and older: a community-based, longitudinal study
79. Pharmacol Res - Pravastatin inhibits proinflammatory effects of Alzheimer's peptide Abeta(1-42) in glioma cell culture in vitro
81. JAMA - Participation in cognitively stimulating activities and risk of incident Alzheimer disease
83. NEJM - Rethinking the Role of Tube Feeding in Patients with Advanced Dementia
87. Rev Neurol - Use of lamotrigine in the treatment of absence epilepsy crises
88. Epilepsia - Sudden unexplained death and injury in epilepsy 90. The Lancet - Safety and efficacy of vigabatrin and carbamazepine in newly diagnosed epilepsy: a multicentre randomised double-blind study
91. Clin Neuropharmacol - Successful use of donepezil for the treatment of psychotic symptoms in patients with Parkinson's disease
91. Exp Gerontol - mt4216C variant in linkage with the mtDNA TJ cluster may confer a susceptibility to mitochondrial dysfunction resulting in an increased risk of Parkinson's disease in the Irish
92. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry - Multidisciplinary rehabilitation for people with Parkinson's disease: a randomised controlled study
93. Sleep - Modafinil for the treatment of daytime sleepiness in Parkinson's disease: a double-blind, randomized, crossover, placebo-controlled polygraphic trial 94. Mov Disord - Rivastigmine in the treatment of parkinsonian psychosis and cognitive impairment: preliminary findings from an open trial
96. Drugs Aging - Comparative tolerability of the newer generation antiparkinsonian agents
97. Cochrane Database Syst Rev - Anticholinergics for symptomatic management of Parkinson's disease (Cochrane Review)
98. Prescrire Int 2002 - Selegiline: a second look. Six years later: too risky in Parkinson's disease
99. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry - High incidence and prevalence of multiple sclerosis in south east Scotland: evidence of a genetic predisposition
100. BMJ - Multiple sclerosis Self reported stressful life events and exacerbations in multiple sclerosis: prospective study
101. NEJM - Antimyelin Antibodies as a Predictor of Clinically Definite Multiple Sclerosis after a First Demyelinating Event
102. Drugs - Early intervention in multiple sclerosis : better outcomes for patients and society?
104. Curr Treat Options Neurol - Disease-modifying Therapies for MS
105. BMJ - Drug 105. J Rehabil Med - Long-term modification of spasticity
106. Diagnostic Criteria for Multiple Sclerosis
107. The Cleveland Clinic Foundation - MRI Criteria for Brain Abnormality: Space and Time Dissemination
108. J Fr Ophtalmol - Bilateral papilledema in young women: two case reports of benign intracranial hypertension?
109. Curr Opin Ophthalmol - Elevated intracranial pressure and pseudotumor cerebri
110. Rev Electroencephalogr Neurophysiol Clin - Epilepsy beginning between 18 and 39 years of age
111. Arch Neurol - Right parietal stroke with Gerstmann's syndrome. Appearance on computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and single-photon emission computed tomography
112. Optometry - Dorsal midbrain syndrome secondary to a pineocytoma
116. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg - Scarless lip rehabilitation for the adynamic lip
117. Tohoku J Exp Med - Retroauricular pain preceding Bell's palsy: report of three cases and clinical analysis
118 & 124. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry - Ramsay Hunt syndrome
119. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol - Outcome of treatment with valacyclovir and prednisone in patients with Bell's palsy
120. J Neurol - Viral infections of the CNS with special emphasis on herpes simplex infections
121. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol - Outcome of treatment with valacyclovir and prednisone in patients with Bell's palsy
122. Cochrane Database Syst Rev - Links Aciclovir for Bell's palsy (idiopathic facial paralysis)
125. Sarcoidosis Vasc Diffuse Lung Dis - Differential diagnosis of facial nerve palsy
126. Am J Otol - Episodic facial paralysis due to temporal bone pneumocele: a case report
127. Can J Anaesth - Unilateral trigeminal and facial nerve palsies associated with epidural analgesia in labour
128. Muscle Nerve - Neuralgic amyotrophy: an increasingly diverse entity
130. J Am Acad Orthop Surg - Compressive ulnar neuropathies at the elbow: I. Etiology and diagnosis
131. Night splints
132. Ulnar nerve entrapment
133. Instr Course Lect - Compressive neuropathies of the ulnar nerve at the elbow and wrist
134. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol - Dominantly inherited peripheral neuropathies
135. J Peripher Nerv Syst - Resolution of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathyassociated central nervous system lesions after treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin
136. Hawaii Med J - Therapy with hypertonic saline in combination with anti-convulsants for hyponatremia-induced seizure: a case report and review of the literature
137. Acta Neurol Belg - Improvement of central pontine myelinolysis as demonstrated by repeated magnetic resonance imaging in a patient without evidence of hyponatremia
138. BMJ - US links motor neurone disease with Gulf war service
139. J Biol Inorg Chem - The perplexing role of copper-zinc superoxide dismutase in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease)
140. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry - Effect of a multidisciplinary amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) clinic on ALS survival: a population based study, 1996-2000
143. Neurol Neurochir Pol - Pathogenesis of ALS: implications for treatment strategies
145. Amyotroph Lateral Scler Other Motor Neuron Disord - A double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial of alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) in the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
146. Curr Biol - Inhibiting axon degeneration and synapse loss attenuates apoptosis and disease progression in a mouse model of motoneuron disease
151. Cochrane Database Syst Rev - Scapular fixation in muscular dystrophy
152. Muscle Nerve - Unusual clinical presentations in patients harboring the facioscapulohumeral dystrophy 4q35 deletion
153. Spine - Spinal deformities in patients with muscular dystrophy other than Duchenne. A review of 11 patients having surgical treatment
154. Ophthalmology - An ice test for the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis
155. Neurol Sci - High-dose intravenous immunoglobulin G treatment of myasthenia gravis
156. Acta Neurol Scand - Intravenous immunoglobulin in the preparation of thymectomy for myasthenia gravis
157. Chin Med J - Diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of thymoma: an analysis of 116 cases
159. Q J Med - A clinical study of type 2 neurofibromatosis
160. Surg Neurol - Links Intradural spinal arachnoid cysts in adults
161. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry - Hypothesis on the pathophysiology of syringomyelia based on simulation of cerebrospinal fluid dynamics
162. The Lancet - A cough, then respiratory failure
163. Eye - Ocular manifestations of hindbrain-related syringomyelia and outcome following craniovertebral decompression
164. Arch Phys Med Rehabil - Total knee arthroplasty in a patient with bilateral Charcot knees
165. Joint Bone Spine - Destructive hip disease complicating traumatic paraplegia
166. J Belge Radiol - Neuropathic arthropathy of the shoulder secondary to syringomyelia
167. J Rheumatol - Neuropathic arthropathy (Charcot joints) due to cervical osteolysis: a complication of progressive systemic sclerosis
168. Virology - Human T cell leukemia virus type Iinduced disease: pathways to cancer and neurodegeneration
169. Neural Netw - Three Centuries of Category Errors in Studies of the Neural Basis of Consciousness and Intentionality
170. Information Sciences - Comparison of Brain Models
171. The Lancet - Modification of attitudes to influence survival from breast cancer
172. J Am Geriatr Soc - Emotional well-being predicts subsequent functional independence and survival

Chapter 11: Rheumatology

1. Ballet Magazine - Francois Verret's interpretation of Robert Musil's novel 'The Man Without Qualities'
4. Spine - The test of Lasegue: systematic review of the accuracy in diagnosing herniated discs
10. Clin Infect Dis - Pneumococcal septic arthritis: review of 190 cases
15. Osteoarthritis Cartilage - C-reactive protein as a biomarker of emergent osteoarthritis
16. BMJ - Gout
18. Arthritis Rheum - Inorganic pyrophosphate in metabolic diseases predisposing to calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal deposition
19. J Rheumatol - Prospective use of intramuscular triamcinolone acetonide in pseudogout
21. Arch Intern Med - Structural and symptomatic efficacy of glucosamine and chondroitin in knee osteoarthritis: a comprehensive meta-analysis
22. Ann Pharmacother - Glucosamine
24. Is juvenile rheumatoid arthritis/juvenile idiopathic arthritis different from rheumatoid arthritis?
25. Acta Derm Venereol - Dermatomyositis in 132 patients with different clinical subtypes: cutaneous signs, constitutional symptoms and circulating antibodies
25. Arch Mal Coeur Vaiss - Pre-capillary pulmonary hypertension complicating CREST syndrome. Apropos of a case
26. Curr Opin Rheumatol - Scleroderma overlap syndromes
29. J Rheumatol - Effect of iloprost infusion on the resistance index of renal vessels of patients with systemic sclerosis
30. Minerva Med - Dermatomyositis: diagnosis, evaluation and management
30. Curr Opin Investig Drugs - Intravenous immunoglobulin: an emerging treatment for immune-mediated skin diseases
33. Emin Nephrol - New prospects for treatment of lupus nephritis
34. Medicine (Baltimore) - Adrenal involvement in the antiphospholipid syndrome: clinical and immunologic characteristics of 86 patients
35. Lupus -Evaluation of clinical and laboratory features of antiphospholipid syndrome: a retrospective study of 637 patients
36. Ophthalmology - The incidence of irreversible retinal toxicity in patients treated with hydroxychloroquine: a reappraisal
37. Transplantation - Recurrent lupus nephritis in renal transplant recipients revisited: it is not rare
38. Arthritis Rheum - Treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus by inhibition of T cell costimulation with anti-CD154: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
39. Rev Alerg Mex - New prospects for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus Iniestra
42 & 43. Med Klin - Neuropsychiatric involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus. Part 1: clinical presentation and pathogenesis
44. Hinyokika Kiyo - Erectile dysfunction arising from polyarteritis nodosa: a case report
45. The Lancet - Pyoderma gangrenosum and its treatment

Chapter 12: Oncology

1. NEJM - Use of Alternative Medicine - A Marker for Distress?
4. BMJ - Cancer care in the United Kingdom: new solutions are needed
9. Recent Results Cancer Res - Aromatase inhibitors in prevention data from the ATAC (arimidex, tamoxifen alone or in combination) trial and the design of IBIS-II (the second International Breast Cancer Intervention Study)
10. NEJM - Environmental and heritable factors in the causation of cancer: analyses of cohorts of twins from Sweden, Denmark, and Finland
11. Curr Treat Options Oncol - Superior vena cava syndrome
12. Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) - Radiological stenting provides effective palliation in malignant central venous obstruction
14. Support Care Cancer - Pan-European multicentre economic evaluation of recombinant urate oxidase (rasburicase) in prevention and treatment of hyperuricaemia and tumour lysis syndrome in haematological cancer patients
16. Semin Oncol - Treatment of hypercalcemia of malignancy with bisphosphonates
17. Clin Radiol - External radiotherapy in the management of malignant pericardial effusion
20. Pain Symptom Manage - Transdermal fentanyl in opioid-naive cancer pain patients: an open trial using transdermal fentanyl for the treatment of chronic cancer pain in opioid-naive patients and a group using codeine
21. Drug Saf - Prevention and management of extravasation of cytotoxic drugs
24. Aust Fam Physician - Fertility effects of cancer treatment
25. Contracept Fertil Sex - Conservation of sperm before cancer therapy. An efficient measure for preserving chances of future conception
26. Cancer - Testicular sperm extraction combined with intracytoplasmic sperm injection in the treatment of men with persistent azoospermia postchemotherapy
27. Early Pregnancy - Cryobiology in human assisted reproductive technology. Would Hippocrates approve?
28. Best Pract Res Clin Endocrinol Metab - Late reproductive sequelae following treatment of childhood cancer and options for fertility preservation
29. Telegraph - UK performs badly in cancer league
30. Arch Fam Med - Breast cancer trends of black women compared with white women

Chapter 13: Surgery

6. National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths (NCEPOD)
13. Bandolier - Systematic reviews on pain topics
15. Clin Exp Med - Variation of plasma D-dimer following surgery: implications for prediction of postoperative venous thromboembolism
16. Circulation - Combination of a Normal D-Dimer Concentration and a Non-High Pretest Clinical Probability Score Is a Safe Strategy to Exclude Deep Venous Thrombosis
27. Gastroenterology - Safety and efficacy of dynamic muscle plasty for anal incontinence: lessons from a prospective, multicenter trial
30 & 31. Handbook of Transfusion Medicine
34. NEJM - Preventing Complications of Central Venous Catheterization
35. Update in Anaesthesia - Clinical Management of Diabetes Mellitus During Anaesthesia and Surgery
38. The Lancet - Surgery in the obese
43. BMJ - Fertility patterns after appendicectomy: historical cohort study
56. NEJM - Urgent Colonoscopy for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Severe Diverticular Hemorrhage
63. Emedicine - Acute small bowel ischaemia
64. Emedicine - Gastric volvulus
79. NEJM - Noninvasive detection of clinically occult lymph-node metastases in prostate cancer
81. NEJM - Quality of life after radical prostatectomy or watchful waiting
85. BMJ - Natural experiment examining impact of aggressive screening and treatment on prostate cancer mortality in two fixed cohorts from Seattle area and Connecticut
90. J Gen Intern Med - Isolated asymptomatic microhematuria: a cross-sectional analysis of test-positive and test-negative patients
91. BMJ- Time to abandon routine tests for microhaematuria?
92. Eur J Appl Physiol Occup Physiol -The effect of exercise intensity on hematuria in healthy male runners
97. Clin Breast Cancer -Epirubicin versus Doxorubicin: which is the anthracycline of choice for the treatment of breast cancer?
101. NICE - Full guidance on trastuzumab for advanced breast cancer
102. WHO working party report on breast cancer screening
108. NEJM - A Randomized Trial of Aspirin to Prevent Colorectal Adenomas
110. Postgrad Med J - Management of colorectal cancer
112. NEJM - Screening for colorectal cancer
116, 117 & 119. Gut - Guidelines on management of oesophageal and gastric cancer
128. Postgrad Med - Progress in the understanding of chronic anal fissure
130. The Oncologist - Carcinoma of the Anus: Strategies in Management
135. NEJM - A Comparison of Suture Repair with Mesh Repair for Incisional Hernia
136. BMJ - Why does NICE not recommend laparoscopic herniorraphy?
139. NICE guidelines
145. J Gastroenterol Hepatol - Long-term effect of alpha-glucosidase inhibitor on late dumping syndrome
146. Int Surg - Metabolic problems after gastric surgery
147. Surgery - Afferent loop obstruction presenting as acute pancreatitis and pseudocyst: case reports and review of the literature

Chapter 14: Infectious Diseases

1. Meningitis Research Foundation - Since 2000 there have been outbreaks of the meningitis W135 strain amongst pilgrims to Hajj. Vaccination against meningitis A and C does not protect against this strain
7. BMJ - Sensitivity of 93.3%, specificity 98.3%, a positive predictive value of 95.6%, and a negative predictive value of 97.4%
13. BMJ - Periodic fevers enter the era of molecular diagnosis
15. The Mercury News - World sees an explosion in new infectious diseases
17. J Clin Virol - Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia
19. Baillieres Clin Rheumatol - Viral infections: alpha-viral arthropathy
20. J Clin Microbiol - Rapid detection and quantification of RNA of Ebola and Marburg viruses, Lassa virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, Rift Valley fever virus, dengue virus, and yellow fever virus by real-time reverse transcription-PCR
35. BMJ - Travel medicine
37. BMJ - Malaria
38. BMJ - Multidrug resistant tuberculosis
39. BMJ - Drug resistant tuberculosis can be controlled, says WHO
43. BMJ - Current medical treatment for tuberculosis
50, 51 & 52. BMJ - Rapid virological surveillance of community influenza infection in general practice
60. NEJM - Suppressing Hepatitis B without Resistance - So Far, So Good
61. NEJM - Hepatitis B Antigen and the Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
63. NEJM - Peginterferon Alfa-2a plus Ribavirin for Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection
66. FDA News - FDA approves new rapid HIV test kit
67. NEJM - Prophylaxis against Opportunistic Infections in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
68. NEJM - Discontinuation of Prophylaxis against Mycobacterium avium Complex Disease in HIV-Infected Patients Who Have a Response to Antiretroviral Therapy
70. NEJM - A Controlled Trial of Valganciclovir as Induction Therapy for Cytomegalovirus Retinitis
71. NEJM - Prophylaxis against Opportunistic Infections in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
72. J Inf Dis- Eradication of AIDS-Related Disseminated Mycobacterium avium Complex Infection after 12 Months of Antimycobacterial Therapy Combined with Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy
74. British HIV Association (BHIVA)
75. British National Fomulary
76. NEJM - Lopinavir-Ritonavir versus Nelfinavir for the Initial Treatment of HIV Infection
77. NEJM - Interactions among Drugs for HIV and Opportunistic Infections
78. BMJ - Sexually transmitted infections
81. JAMA - One terrorist group, Aum Shinrikyo, responsible for the release of sarin in a Tokyo, Japan, subway station in 1995 dispersed aerosols of anthrax and botulism throughout Tokyo on at least 8 occasions. For unclear reasons, the attacks failed to produce illness. Anthrax as a Biological Weapon Medical and Public Health Management
93. NEJM - Typhoid Fever
97. WHO epidemiological data on Leprosy
100. BMJ - Leprosy elimination"a virtual phenomenon or a reality?
103. BMJ - Syphilis: old problem, new strategy
107. The Lancet - Polio-endemic countries pledge to boost eradication efforts in 2004
108. NEJM - The Final Stages of the Global Eradication of Polio
109. The Lancet - Early indicators in acute dengue infection
110. Rev Inst Med Trop Sao Paulo Molecular typing of dengue virus type 2 in Brazil
116. NEJM - Fluconazole for the Treatment of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Caused by Leishmania major
123. NEJM- - Treatment is with intravenous voriconazole (two doses of 6 mg per kilogram of body weight on day 1, then 4 mg per kilogram twice daily for at least seven days) followed by 200 mg orally twice daily
124. NEJM - Capsofungin was shown in one trial to be at least as effective as Amphotericin B in the treatment of invasive candidiasis
130. Global Alliance to eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis

Chapter 15: Haematology

30. BMJ - Stem cell transplantation
35. Medicine (Baltimore) - Amyloidosis: review of 236 cases

Chapter 16: Clinical Chemistry

3. Heart - Left ventricular remodelling and brain natriuretic peptide after first myocardial infarction

Chapter 18: Eponymous Syndromes

1. NEJM - Behcet's disease
2. NEJM - IgA Nephropathy
3. J Cardiovasc Electrophysiol - Phenotypic characterization of a large European family with Brugada syndrome displaying a sudden unexpected death syndrome mutation in SCN5A
4. J Gastroenterol Hepatol - Budd-Chiari syndrome: our experience of 71 patients
6. NEJM - Detection of Pathologic Prion Protein in the Olfactory Epithelium in Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
8. Transplantation - Successful liver transplantation of two brothers with crigler-najjar syndrome type 1 using a single cadaveric organ
10. NEJM - Molecular Pathogenesis of Cholestasis
11. EDTNA ERCA J - Restless legs syndrome: a review for the renal care professionals
12. NEJM - New Therapies for Fabry's Disease
13. The Haematology Journal - Inherited aplastic anaemia
14. Journal of Gastroenterology - Complete regression of colonic adenomas after treatment with sulindac in Gardner's syndrome: a 4-year follow-up
15. NEJM - Narcolepsy and the HLA System
17. E J Clin Neurosci - Huntington's disease: neurological assessment of potential gene carriers presenting for predictive DNA testing
20. Emedicine - Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome
22. Cardiology - Loffler's endomyocarditis in the idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome
23. Emedicine - Lown-Ganong-Levine Syndrome
24. Archives of Neurology - Treatment of McArdle Disease (Phosphorylase Deficiency - MPD or PYGM)
27. NEJM - Neostigmine for the Treatment of Acute Colonic Pseudo-Obstruction
28. NEJM - Liver Disease in Patients with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
29. Cancer - The conservative management of Paget's disease of the breast with radiotherapy
30. J Urol - Iontophoresis for treatment of Peyronie's disease
31. J Urol - Peyronie's disease: a review
32. Expert Opin Investig Drugs - Sjogren's syndrome: evolving therapies
33. Arch Dermatol - Intravenous immunoglobulin treatment for Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis: a prospective noncomparative study showing no benefit on mortality or progression
34. Dermatology Online Journal - Treatment of severe drug reactions: Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis and Hypersensitivity syndrome

Chapter 19: Practical Procedures

1. James Joyce, 1922 Ulysses, page 272-3. Pengnin
2. J Am Geriatr Soc - Urinary catheters: what type do men and their nurses prefer?
7. BMJ - Headaches after diagnostic dural punctures

Chapter 20: Emergencies

14. NEJM - Effect of Intravenous Omeprazole on Recurrent Bleeding after Endoscopic Treatment of Bleeding Peptic Ulcers
16. The Lancet - Averting a malaria disaster
19. Mayo Clin Proc - Antiparasitic agents
21. S Afr Med J - Hyperosmolar non-ketotic diabetic coma as a cause of emergency hyperglycaemic admission to Baragwanath Hospital
24. Toxbase

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