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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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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