Australian Journal of General Practice
This article investigates the prevalence of chronic pain in a rural setting and the use of specialist pain clinics and examines factors associated with well-managed pain.
These presentations provide fertile ground for educating patients about infections, self-management options, dealing with uncertainty and responsible use of medicines.
Buprenorphine–naloxone is well tolerated by patients with chronic pain, and has the potential to improve pain scores and affective symptoms.
Calcium score has been shown to convincingly predict future cardiovascular risk in the asymptomatic population.
Pouchitis is an inflammatory or infective condition of the ileal pouch. It is a common complication of colectomy surgery.
PID is a major cause of morbidity and reproductive difficulty in women of childbearing age. This article outlines the pathogenesis, clinical evaluation and management of PID.
Noncardiac chest pain is a cause of significant morbidity and can be responsible for a high personal cost and healthcare burden.
In late-stage Parkinson’s disease there is a shift to increasing disability from non-motor symptoms unresponsive to levodopa.
Imaging algorithms for coronary artery disease screening differ significantly from diagnostic studies evaluating cardiac symptoms including chest pain.
A woman aged 64 years presented with a few weeks of tiredness, night sweats and palpitations.
A woman aged 49 years presented with a 12-month history of an enlarging painless but pruritic perianal plaque 2 cm from the anal verge.
What was once a fatal disease at the severe end of the spectrum is becoming a treatable condition with improved functional status and outcomes.
Our understanding of COVID-19-related renal disease and the effect of the infection in patients with renal disease is still evolving.
International rheumatology bodies now recommend multiple forms of exercise as part of the management of both osteoarthritis and the more classically inflammatory rheumatic disorders.
While it is important to investigate and understand the role of the BCG vaccine in other areas, this should not be at the expense of its proven use for tuberculosis protection.