Ace The Internal Medicine Exam

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the leading causes of death. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is a non-surgical, invasive proc ...

Lichen sclerosus (LS) is a chronic inflammatory disease. It was first described by Hallopeau in 1881. Since then, multiple names have been used to ...

Guyon canal syndrome is a relatively rare peripheral ulnar neuropathy that involves injury to the distal portion of the ulnar nerve as it ...

Methyldopa is a centrally acting sympatholytic agent used in the treatment of hypertension. Since its introduction in 1960, the drug quickl ...

Lung cancer is a diagnosis that approximately 230,000 United States citizens will receive annually. Deaths are estimated at 135,000 patients p ...

Hemorrhage is an acute loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel. The bleeding can be minor, such as when the superficial vessels in the skin are d ...

Cerebellar hemorrhage or hematoma is a type of intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) where the bleeding is located in the posterior fossa or cerebellum and ...

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a microvascular disorder occurring due to long term effects of diabetes, leading to vision-threatening damage to the r ...

Glucose is a monosaccharide sugar that our bodies obtain from food and use as our principal energy source. The basic molecular form of glucose is C ...

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) refers to a group of conditions that include ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), non-ST elevation myocardial ...

Medication overuse headache (MOH) is thought to occur when medications intended to relieve a headache are consumed too frequently. T ...

Ethacrynic acid is a loop diuretic that gained FDA approval for widespread use in 1967. Unlike other loop diuretics, ethacrynic acid is a novel dru ...

Pioneered in the 1960s, and successfully implemented in the 1980s, with a declining number of candidates since the 1990s,

Since its discovery in 1908, phenytoin has become one of the most well-studied anticonvulsants. With an average monthly cost of $30, it has also be ...

Over the years, many types of tuning forks tests had been developed to assess hearing loss, but today only two have withstood the test of time: Rin ...

is the causative agent of diphtheria. is a nonencapsulated, nonmotile, gram ...

Gynecomastia relates to any condition in which the male breast volume is enlarged due to an increase in ductal tissue, stroma, or fat. Gynecom ...

Dacryoadenitis refers to inflammation of the lacrimal gland and may be unilateral or bilateral. The lacrimal gland is located superotemporally to t ...