Cardiology

  • Promoting physical activity in older women to maximize health
    Augustine Chavez, MD, Robert Scales, PhD and Juliana M. Kling, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2021, 88 (7) 405-415; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20170

    The optimal type, intensity, and level required to achieve specific health outcomes depend on the disease the patient and clinician are trying to prevent or manage.

  • Evolving distal signs
    Zackary D. Goff, MD, Sandra E. Zaeh, MD, MS, Michael K. Poku, MD, John N. Aucott, MD and Allan C. Gelber, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2021, 88 (6) 310-312; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20126

    The patient’s evolving signs and symptoms prompted a reconsideration of his diagnosis.

  • Famous and not-so-famous physical findings in infectious endocarditis: A look back
    Adam J. Brown, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2021, 88 (6) 316-318; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.21033

    It is difficult to find a disease more emblematic of the practice of internal medicine.

  • Dual antiplatelet therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention: Personalize the duration
    Travis M. Howard, MD and Umesh N. Khot, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2021, 88 (6) 325-332; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20113

    A review of current guidelines on the duration of therapy and perioperative management.

  • Medical complications of bulimia nervosa
    Allison Nitsch, MD, Heather Dlugosz, MD, Dennis Gibson, MD and Philip S. Mehler, MD, FACP, FAED
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2021, 88 (6) 333-343; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20168

    Complications can affect all body systems, but especially the renal and electrolyte systems.

  • Quetiapine for primary insomnia: Consider the risks
    Vania Modesto-Lowe, MD, MPH, Agata K. Harabasz, MD and Sophia A. Walker, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2021, 88 (5) 286-294; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20031

    Its cardiometabolic effects and potential for abuse warrant caution in off-label use.

  • Update in perioperative cardiac medicine 2021
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2021, 88 (5) 294;

    The following article contained an error: Cohn SL. Update in perioperative cardiac medicine. Cleve Clin J Med 2021; 88(4):216–220. doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.21014

  • CABG: When, why, and how?
    CABG: When, why, and how?
    George Dimeling, MD, Laurice Bakaeen, PharmD, Jaikirshan Khatri, MD and Faisal G. Bakaeen, MD, FACS
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2021, 88 (5) 295-303; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20115

    The surgery has developed beyond a “cookie-cutter” generic cardiac operation.

  • Tumoral calcinosis
    Hiroyuki Yano, MD and Mitsuyo Kinjo, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2021, 88 (4) 208-209; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20084

    A 47-year-old woman on peritoneal dialysis presented with dyspnea and hip pain.

  • Update in perioperative cardiac medicine 2021
    Steven L. Cohn, MD, MACP, SFHM
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2021, 88 (4) 216-220; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.21014

    New light on preoperative assessment and on the need for anticoagulation.

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