Osteoporosis in anorexia nervosa.

Osteoporosis is common in anorexia nervosa. It places these patients at increased lifetime risk for fractures. Bone loss may never recover completely even once weight is restored.

Interpreting the complete blood count in anorexia nervosa.

Anemia, leukopenia and thrombocytopenia are frequent complications of anorexia nervosa. The complete blood count provides useful information to diagnose and characterize these findings. Anemia tends to be normocytic and normochromic.

Intimate partner violence in women hospitalized on an internal medicine service: prevalence and relationship to responses to the review of systems.

Background: Although intimate partner violence is common, the prevalence in patients hospitalized on internal medicine services and whether it is associated with numerous positive responses to the review of systems are not known.

Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of intimate partner violence in women hospitalized on an internal medicine service and to determine whether it is associated with the number or types of positive responses to the review of systems.

Design: This was a prospective, cross-sectional survey.

A cooperative care model: cardiologists and hospitalists reduce length of stay in a chest pain observation unit.

Chest pain observation units are increasingly used to evaluate patients at low risk for cardiovascular events and are commonly staffed by cardiologists. The role of hospitalists in this setting has not been described. We assessed emergency department (ED) length of stay before and after adding hospitalists to the care team among 493 patients.

The genome sequence of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae strain 232, the agent of swine mycoplasmosis.

We present the complete genome sequence of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae, an important member of the porcine respiratory disease complex. The genome is composed of 892,758 bp and has an average G+C content of 28.6 mol%.

Neurocysticercosis: nursing perspectives.

Management of neurocysticercosis (NCC) is mostly by means of prevention and antihelminthic medications. We reviewed the role of medical and surgical intervention in patients with NCC lesions. We also identified two patients with isolated NCC lesions to determine whether they might be rendered seizure free through surgical removal of the lesion.