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LAC+USC DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY
MEDICINE
MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REVIEW (MMWR)
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - TROPICAL MEDICINE
INTERNATIONAL
SOCIETY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF
TROPICAL MEDICINE
AND HYGIENE
CENTER FOR DISEASE
CONTROL AND
PREVENTION
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES
GORGAS COURSE ON
TROPICAL MEDICINE
SWISS TROPICAL
INSTITUTE
LONDON SCHOOL OF
TROPICAL MEDICINE
INTERNATIONAL
EXPEDITIONS
TROPICAL MEDICINE
CENTER
MASTER TRAVEL
ANTIBIOTIC GUIDE
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One of the thrilling aspects of living in Los Angeles is enjoying the diverse cultural atmosphere evident throughout the city. With its close proximity to the Mexican border, in addition to its pivotal role as a central hub for entry into the United States, many of our emergency department patients at LAC+USC are recent immigrants or international travelers. To improve our diagnostic abilities, tropical infectious diseases have become an important part of our emergency medicine training, a basic knowledge of which is fundamental for any physician working with these populations of patients. Past lectures have emphasized the diagnostic approach to fever in the returned traveler, tropical causes of space occupying lesions of the hepatobiliary tree diagnosed by bedside ultrasound, leprosy, malaria, and tropical skin ulcers. |
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Active research continues in tropical medicine in the emergency department at LAC+USC. Using mostly retrospective case reports and descriptive studies in the past as tools for further research, prospective studies are currently in progress and future projects are being planned. Our efforts range from identifying the parasite of Chagas' disease as an etiology of chest pain to the tapeworm Taenia Solium, which is responsible for many of our patients seizures. |
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Tuberculosis wards are not uncommon in many countries. It remains an enormous problem, both with diagnosis, compliance with treatment, and drug resistance (Solomon Islands) |
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Also, descriptive abstract studies of diseases such as tetanus, malaria, typhoid, amebiasis, ascariasis, and leprosy have aided in our understanding and expanded our differential diagnosis. |
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Signs such as these are posted to remind the population the necessity of precautionary measures to combat malaria, which remains a deadly disease, especially in the young. (Solomon Islands) |
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With increasing immigration and ease of global travel, patients with tropical diseases will continue to present to our emergency department at LAC+USC. Recognizing this, our physicians will persist in our devotion to provide the highest quality of health care to all our patients. |
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LAC+USC Medical Center Department of Emergency of Medicine Room L 1011
1200 N. State St.
Los Angeles, CA 90033
Georgia Sotiropoulos
M.D., MPH
Department of Emergency Medicine LAC+USC Medical Center
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Malnutrition remains a major problem throughout the world. These children in rural Kenya suffer from kwashiorkor, as a result of protein deficiency. |
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The International Emergency Medicine Website was designed by MGB Design, with medical oversight provided by Richard J. Hoffner M.D.
All images on this site are copyrighted and the exclusive property of LAC+USC Medical Center and it's affiliated physicians.
This page was last updated on: Monday, August 7, 2000 |
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