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An evaluation of liver fibrosis severity during the initial examination is essential for the determination of chronic liver disease prognosis. Although liver biopsy is the gold standard for evaluation of...
Physicians of South Korea are not guaranteed their safe health care environment amid the recent increase in medical disputes and changed medical disputes. There has been surprisingly high tendency of...
Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors constitute a class of diabetes medications that have demonstrated the potential to improve outcomes for heart failure (HF) patients. Although they were originally developed to...
Low back pain, categorized as nociceptive, neuropathic, or nociplastic, is the leading cause of disability in terms of years lived among young people. The lumbar spine may produce specific or...
The hospitalist system has recently been implemented in Korea. Claims against hospitalists may become a new medicolegal issue, as the number of medical malpractice claims is increasing. Hospitalist medical malpractice...
Myasthenic crisis, which can be life-threatening due to severe respiratory failure, occurs in 15-20% of patients with myasthenia gravis. However, the crisis often develops within 1-2 years after diagnosis and...
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is the most common and fatal idiopathic interstitial pneumonia and is characterized by chronic progressive pulmonary fibrosis of indeterminate etiology. In 2018, the American Thoracic Society,...
COVID-19 vaccination is essential in cancer patients. However, there is limited evidence of the prognosis of these patients, especially for those taking immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). We present a patient...