Adolescent Medicine

  • Medical complications of anorexia nervosa
    Jeana Cost, LPC,CEDS, Mori J. Krantz, MD and Philip S. Mehler, MD,FACP,FAED
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2020, 87 (6) 361-366; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19084

    Many of these complications resolve with treatment and weight gain, but others can lead to permanent damage.

  • CGRP antagonists for decreasing migraine frequency: New options, long overdue
    Julia Bucklan, DO and Zubair Ahmed, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2020, 87 (4) 211-218; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19048

    CGRP drugs are an exciting frontier, but migraine management is still a combination of lifestyle changes plus treatment.

  • Preventing migraine: The old and the new
    Glen D. Solomon, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2020, 87 (4) 219-221; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19147

    Roughly half of patients taking any preventive medication have a 50% reduction in migraine frequency.

  • Mitral valve prolapse and sudden cardiac death: A perspective on risk-stratification
    Aaron A. H. Smith, MD and Omer J. Iqbal, MD, FHRS
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2020, 87 (3) 136-138; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19096

    Mitral valve prolapse is common, but sudden cardiac death is rare. How can we stratify risk?

  • Restrictive eating disorders in previously overweight adolescents and young adults
    Restrictive eating disorders in previously overweight adolescents and young adults
    Radhika Rastogi, BA and Ellen S. Rome MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2020, 87 (3) 165-171; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19034

    Some patients with restrictive eating disorders are hiding in plain sight.

  • Atypical anorexia nervosa can be just as bad
    Neville H. Golden, MD and Philip S. Mehler, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2020, 87 (3) 172-174; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19146

    Eating disorders can occur in patients with a wide variety of weights.

  • Familial hypercholesterolemia: Detect, treat, and ask about family
    Familial hypercholesterolemia: Detect, treat, and ask about family
    Nishant P. Shah, MD, Haitham M. Ahmed, MD, MPH and W. H. Wilson Tang, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2020, 87 (2) 109-120; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19021

    Patients can develop elevated LDL-C and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease at a young age.

  • A young man with hypertension and hypokalemia
    Zainah Chiko, BSHS, Mohamad Hanouneh, MD and C. John Sperati, MD, MHS
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2020, 87 (2) 77-79; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19111

    At presentation, his blood pressure was 184/154 mm Hg, and his serum potassium level was 3.1 mmol/L.

  • Sickle cell disease: A primary care update
    Grace Onimoe, MD and Seth Rotz, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2020, 87 (1) 19-27; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.18051

    Survival has improved, but patients still face multiorgan damage, chronic anemia, and debilitating pain crises.

  • STI update: Testing, treatment, and emerging threats
    Matifadza Hlatshwayo, MD, MPH, Hilary E. L. Reno, MD, PhD and Melanie L. Yarbrough, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2019, 86 (11) 733-740; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18098

    Fast, sensitive molecular diagnostic tests that use self-collected samples may help bend the upward curve of STIs.

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