More articles from Infectious-Diseases

  • COVID-19: A management update
    Kathryn Bash, MHSc, MSN, APRN-CNP, Gretchen Sacha, PharmD, BCCCP and Mani Latifi, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2023, 90 (11) 677-683; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.90a.22102

    The authors examine current guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the National Institutes of Health.

  • Should midodrine be used as an intravenous vasopressor-sparing agent in septic shock?
    Simran Gupta, MD, Ayan Sen, MD and Aman Verma, DO
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2023, 90 (10) 603-605; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.90a.23040

    Research and robust data are still lacking regarding use of midodrine in this setting.

  • vOka vaccine-associated disseminated varicella zoster
    Peter R. Hyson, MD and Louis B. Polish, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2023, 90 (10) 599-600; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.90a.23008

    The patient had received the live attenuated vaccine 1 month before presentation. He had no history of varicella infection.

  • Should you use compression duplex ultrasonography to detect deep vein thrombosis to evaluate unexplained fevers?
    Daniel Rozenbaum, MD, Anirudh Yalamanchali, MD, MS and Deborah Hornacek, MD, FSVM
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2023, 90 (10) 611-614; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.90a.23018

    The authors provide recommendations on when to order imaging of the extremities in the evaluation of hospitalized patients with unexplained fever.

  • Masked tinea
    Ayano Hamai, MD and Yukinori Harada, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2023, 90 (10) 601-602; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.90a.23002

    A result of daily mask-wearing during a long hospitalization.