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NEW ORLEANS — Primary care physicians and internists need to ask pointed questions to determine if their patient is suffering from PTSD, according to a presenter here at the American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Evidence supports the use of hydrocortisone in more severely ill patients with sepsis, according to a presentation here at Hospital Medicine 2018.

It is my pleasure to announce exciting changes to the Orthopedics Today Editorial Board. In an effort to continually evolve in covering orthopedics, we have made significant changes to the Editorial Board. Orthopedics continues to transform and Orthopedics Today has responded to these changes with the addition of up-and-coming innovators, as well as more established professionals.

ATLANTA — Transplant-associated thrombotic microangiopathy may be a final common pathway for several disorders with different pathophysiologic mechanisms, according to a retrospective cohort analysis presented at the ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition.

ORLANDO — In this exclusive video from Advances in IBD 2017, David Suskind, MD, professor of pediatrics and director of clinical gastroenterology at Seattle Children’s Hospital, University of Washington, discusses recent advances in the use of nutrition therapy in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease.

WASHINGTON — Reaching sustained virologic response with direct-acting antivirals reduced the occurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma by 71%, but all treatments that cleared the virus saw a similar reduction in risk, according to a presenter at The Liver Meeting 2017.

The AAP recently issued revised clinical practice guidelines — including new normative blood pressure tables, updated screening protocols for screening, and streamlined medication recommendations — for the diagnosis and management of pediatric hypertension.

In 2015, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease contributed to 3.2 million deaths worldwide and asthma contributed to 0.4 million deaths. These statistics demonstrate the significant impact of these respiratory diseases and a need for better policies to improve access to and quality of existing interventions for prevention and treatment, according to findings published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

Almost one-quarter of children who survived community-acquired sepsis experienced significant declines in health-related quality of life, lasting up to 4.5 months after discharge, according to research presented at the 2017 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

Enthesitis and dactylitis were associated with a greater burden of disease in patients with psoriatic arthritis, according to data published from the Corrona registry.