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Chronic kidney disease in type 2 diabetes

1st July 2022
Around one in two adults with type 2 diabetes will have chronic kidney disease (CKD). Screening undertaken in all people with type 2 diabetes at least annually can identify patients with
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Heart failure

24th June 2022
Echocardiography is the cornerstone of heart failure (HF) diagnosis and classifies HF into HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). This
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Diplopia

17th June 2022
Monocular diplopia is the presence of double vision when viewing with just the one (affected) eye; it is almost always related to an ocular pathology. Binocular diplopia is most commonly
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Double vision
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Irregular vaginal bleeding

10th June 2022
Irregular vaginal bleeding is common and may be the only symptom of serious pathology. Bleeding may arise from any part of the genital tract, and a systematic approach is required.
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Migraine

3rd June 2022
In terms of clinical management, consider tension headache and migraine on a spectrum. A holistic approach to migraine management seems preferable to conventional serial polypharmacy.
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Hepatocellular carcinoma

27th May 2022
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the few cancers in Australia with increasing incidence and mortality. Indigenous Australians are affected at twice the rate of non-Indigenous
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Microscopic view of hepatocellular carcinoma.
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Adrenal disease

20th May 2022
Adrenal incidentaloma can be assessed with a dedicated non-contrast CT scan, an aldosterone-to-renin ratio (ARR), plasma metanephrines and an overnight 1mg dexamethasone suppression test.
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