#133 Herpes for Everyone

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science, Higher Education, Education

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Master the diagnosis and management of Genital Herpes with tips from expert, Robert Bettiker MD . Topics include: the natural history, diagnosis & screening guidelines for genital herpes; cold sores; options for primary and recurrent episodes including prophylaxis; and consideration of specific populations including symptomatic and asymptomatic patients, pregnancy and MSM (men who have sex with men). We also discuss partner notification and treatment.

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Credits

Written and produced by: Kate Grant MBChB DipGUMed, Matthew Watto MD

Images by: Kate Grant MBChB DipGUMed

Hosts: Stuart Brigham MD, Paul Williams MD, Matthew Watto MD

Guest: Robert Bettiker MD

Time Stamps

00:00 Disclaimer, guest bio, intro
01:50 Guest one liner, memorable teaching moment and a few failures
10:50 Intro to herpes
12:25 Case 1: Genital herpes in a married man
15:42 Overview of testing options
18:50 Marital counseling in Herpes
22:18 Prophylaxis in serodiscordant partners and asymptomatic shedding
25:08 Case 2: Severe outbreak of genital herpes in a young woman
31:50 Case 3: Young male with recent exposure to herpes
38:45 Herpes 1 (HSV1) versus Herpes 2 (HSV2)
44:12 Case 4: Herpes in pregnancy
50:45 Do topical agents work for herpes
55:05 Take home points
56:10 Outro
57:52 Stuart shares a PUN!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, Curbsiders, and welcome to a special holiday episode of the Curbsiders.
0:06.4	We decided that for this special episode, we would talk about the gift that keeps on
0:11.4	giving all year long herpes for everyone.
0:15.9	With infectious diseases expert Dr. Robert Bedaker, MD, he is a professor of medicine at the
0:22.2	Lewis Cat School of Medicine at Temple University.
0:25.8	This episode was a lot of fun to record, so without further ado, onto the show.
0:55.8	Welcome back to the Curbsiders.
1:07.8	Well, hello, Matt. How are you doing?
1:10.8	Good, Stuart.
1:11.8	How are you?
1:12.8	The audience probably won't miss a beat, but you haven't been here for a while.
1:15.8	No.
1:16.8	Good to have you back.
1:17.8	Yeah, about what? Like two or three weeks?
1:20.8	Yeah, something like that.
1:22.8	Paul has been just in his glory.
1:27.8	He's just been, yeah, he's been killing it with the puns in your absence.
1:32.8	Paul, would you mind telling the audience what we do on this show?
1:36.8	Sure, be happy to, Matt. We are an internal medicine podcast that uses expert interviews to renew
1:41.6	clinical pearls and practice changing knowledge.
1:44.7	We also do a little bit of just getting to know the guest up front, so feel free to skip
1:48.4	past that part if you want to get to the good stuff, but you're missing out on quality
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