Cardiology

  • Navigating the anticoagulant landscape in 2017
    James D. Douketis, MD, FRCP(C), FACP, FCCP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2017, 84 (10) 768-778; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84gr.17005

    What is the best strategy in acute venous thromboembolism? How should anticoagulation be managed before surgery?

  • Challenges and advances in cardiovascular disease
    Maan A. Fares, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2017, 84 (12 suppl 3) 11; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84.s3.01
  • Cardiac amyloidosis: An update on diagnosis and treatment
    Joseph P. Donnelly, MD and Mazen Hanna, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2017, 84 (12 suppl 3) 12-26; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84.s3.02
  • Severely frail elderly patients do not need lipid-lowering drugs
    Laurie Herzig Mallery, MD, FRCPC, MSM, Paige Moorhouse, MD, MPH, FRCPC, MSM, Pam McLean Veysey, BSc (Pharm), Michael Allen, MD, MSc and Isobel Fleming, BScPharm, ACPR
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2017, 84 (2) 131-142; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15114

    Statins have no role as primary prevention in this population, and a minor role as secondary prevention.

  • Statin therapy in the frail elderly: A nuanced decision
    Donald Clark, MD and Leslie S. Cho, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2017, 84 (2) 143-145; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16036

    Clinicians—and patients—may reasonably feel there is value in statin therapy—even in advanced frailty.

  • Cardiopulmonary exercise testing: A contemporary and versatile clinical tool
    Cardiopulmonary exercise testing: A contemporary and versatile clinical tool
    Kenneth Leclerc, MD, FACC, FACSM
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2017, 84 (2) 161-168; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15013

    It has a class I recommendation for evaluating dyspnea of uncertain cause and in candidates for heart transplant.

  • Porcelain heart in a uremic patient
    Hsiu-Chien Yang, MD, Chang-Han Lo, MD, Chun-Chi Chen, MD and Chia-Chao Wu, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2017, 84 (3) 184-185; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15177
  • Cardiopulmonary exercise testing February 2017
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2017, 84 (3) 214;
  • Management of coronary chronic total occlusion
    Jaikirshan Khatri, MD, Mouin Abdallah, MD and Stephen Ellis, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2017, 84 (12 suppl 3) 27-38; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84.s3.03
  • Cardiogenic shock: From ECMO to Impella and beyond
    Cardiogenic shock: From ECMO to Impella and beyond
    Mehdi H. Shishehbor, DO, MPH, PhD, Nader Moazami, MD, Michael Z.-Y. Tong, MD, MBP, Shinya Unai, MD, W. H. Wilson Tang, MD and Edward G. Soltesz, Md, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2017, 84 (4) 287-295; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84gr.17002

    Several devices can serve as a bridge to recovery, transplant, or a long-term device.

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