ClinMeditorial November 2020

16/11/2020 9 min
ClinMeditorial November 2020

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The ClinMeditorial features the ClinMeditations of our editor, Professor Anton Emmanuel, on the latest issue of Clinical Medicine, the journal of the Royal College of Physicians.  Links to specific articles he discusses are below, or read the whole issue here. Distribution of contemporary sensitivity troponin in the emergency department and relationship to 30-day mortality: The CHARIOT-ED substudy  The investigation and management of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency: A retrospective cohort study  Point-of-care ultrasound rapidly and reliably diagnoses renal tract obstruction in patients admitted with acute kidney injury Update on the diagnosis and management of early rheumatoid arthritis  Rheumatoid arthritis and bone health  Adult Paget’s disease of bone  An update on the general management approach to common vasculitides  Raynaud’s phenomenon   Oxycodone-induced leukoencephalopathy: a rare diagnosis  Delayed diagnosis of mitral stenosis presenting initially as Ortner’s syndrome  A painful nodule arising within chronic necrobiosis lipoidica  Antiviral treatment for COVID-19: the evidence supporting remdesivirInhaled and systemic heparin as a repurposed direct antiviral drug for prevention and treatment of COVID-19Evaluation of a patient self-stratification methodology to identify those in need of shielding during COVID-19How COVID-19 has changed the unselected medical take: an observational study Support the show