Latest Articles

  • Necrotizing pancreatitis: Diagnose, treat, consult
    Tiffany Y. Chua, MD, R. Matthew Walsh, MD, FACS, Mark E. Baker, MD and Tyler Stevens, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2017, 84 (8) 639-648; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16052

    Patients may need intensive care, nutritional support, antibiotics, and radiologic, endoscopic, or surgical interventions.

  • A 68-year-old man with a blue toe
    Kiyoshi Shikino, MD, PhD, Takahiro Ota, MD, Takanori Uehara, MD, PhD and Masatomi Ikusaka, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2017, 84 (6) 436-437; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16059

    The patient had undergone coronary artery bypass grafting, which caused cholesterol crystal embolism.

  • Antibiotic stewardship: Why we must, how we can
    Arjun Srinivasan, MD, FSHEA, CAPT USPHS
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2017, 84 (9) 673-679; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84gr.17003

    It has always been a good idea; now it is required.

  • Patients with challenging behaviors: Communication strategies
    Isabel N. Schuermeyer, MD, Erin Sieke, BA, Leah Dickstein, MD, Tatiana Falcone, MD, FAPA and Kathleen Franco, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2017, 84 (7) 535-542; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15130

    Having a plan to deal with difficult personality types leads to better communication and outcomes—and less stress.

  • Whether to anticoagulate: Toward a more reasoned approach
    Theodore T. Suh, MD, PhD, MHS
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2017, 84 (1) 41-42; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16086

    The patient’s life expectancy and personal preferences are important and affect the decision.

  • 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
  • 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

    Constrictive pericarditis due to secondary hyperparathyroidism occurs in up to 4% of patients with end-stage renal disease.

  • An unexpected cause of shoulder pain
    Takeshi Kondo, MD, Yoshiyuki Ohira, PhD, Takanori Uehara, PhD, Kazutaka Noda, PhD and Masatomi Ikusaka, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2017, 84 (4) 276-277; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccim.84a.16051

    The patient’s scapula protruded abnormally during forward flexion and abduction of the arm.

  • A burning sensation in the mouth
    Satvinder Singh Bakshi, MS, DNB
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2017, 84 (5) 344-345; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16005

    The patient was a smoker with poor oral hygiene.

  • A lump on the hip
    Morteza Khodaee, MD, MPH, Seth Mathern, MD, Wendy S. Madigosky, MD, MSPH and Jonathan T. Bravman, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2017, 84 (8) 594-596; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16065

    The patient had fallen on his hip while playing basketball about 2 weeks earlier.

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