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Duke Medicine
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A. ...Muscle does not turn to fat. Muscle is muscle and fat is fat. With a sedentary lifestyle muscle atrophies and you develop more fat stores thus...
A. Do not confuse pain severity with an ACL tear. Torn is torn. If you tore your ACL you do not HAVE to fix it, however based on the activities you like...
A. ... I have recently treated a patient with a similar problem that had the same "deep itch" complaint. SHe said it was like an itch she...
A. Plantar fasciitis can be a real pain in the foot. Good news: it is typically self limiting but can last a year or more. Treatment starts with...
A. Understanding your egg supply, both origins and ways in which egg number declines, can help you to decide your next steps on the pathway to...
A. While most medications do not affect sperm production, both allopurinol and colchicine have been been reported to influence semen parameters. Unlike...
A. There are two basic types of stents that cardiologists use to treat blockages in coronary arteries. Both are made of metal, but one type is coated...
A. Any chest pain that occurs in someone that has known coronary disease, as you do with the three stents, should be evaluated by a physician...
A. As someone who loves and collects wine, I was particularly interested in this question.... First, how did people come to the notion that red wine...
A. These are worrisome symptoms: shortness of breath and passing out. After a bypass operation, these symptoms could reflect some damage to the heart...
A. ... It sounds great that your CEA is not changing and that your colonoscopy looks good. These are exactly the things that we need to follow. You...
A. ... Good-news-bad-news. The LHRH agonist (Lupron is one brand) is critical to the success of prostate cancer treatment for many men and sounds like...
A. Unfortunately, this is a very common scenario. MRIs are very sensitive and not specific. This means that they often find all kinds of things that may...
A. Vocal cord dysfunction is a condition that causes abnormal movement of the vocal cords. This causes episodes of shortness of breath that come on...
A. Steroids can cause elevations in blood sugar. I would record the blood sugar values you are obtaining and then contact your primary doctor or...