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  • Office approach to small fiber neuropathy
    Jinny O. Tavee, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2018, 85 (10) 801-812; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17124

    A practical approach for identifying an underlying cause is to fi rst screen for common ones.

  • Transcatheter aortic valve replacement for bicuspid aortic valve stenosis
    Waleed T. Kayani, MD, Alvin Blaustein, MD, Ali Denktas, MD and Hani Jneid, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2018, 85 (10) 786-788; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.18101

    Surgery remains the standard of care, but transcatheter aortic valve replacement is an emerging, viable option for some.

  • 2017 ACC/AHA hypertension guidelines: Toward tighter control
    Rebecca Blonsky, MD, Marc Pohl, MD, Joseph V. Nally, MD and George Thomas, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2018, 85 (10) 771-778; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.18028

    Under the new defi nition (≥ 130/80 mm Hg), 46% of US adults have hypertension.

  • Genitourinary syndrome of menopause in breast cancer survivors: Treatments are available
    Anna Camille Moreno, DO, Sabrina K. Sikka, MD and Holly L. Thacker, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2018, 85 (10) 760-766; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17108

    Options include locally applied estrogens, DHEA, and estrogen receptor agonists/antagonists.

  • How long should we follow simple ovarian cysts with pelvic ultrasonography?
    Megan C. McNamara, MD, MS and Rachel Brook, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2018, 85 (10) 745-747; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17116

    Before menopause, most simple cysts smaller than 5 cm resolve in 2 to 3 menstrual cycles and need no further intervention.

  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (May 2018)
    Moustafa Elsheshtawy, MD, Mahmoud Abdelghany, MD and Jacob Shani, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2018, 85 (10) 735; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85c.10001

    Readers comment on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (May 2018) and on hypoparathyroidism (March 2018).

  • When stroke runs in the family
    Nellowe Candelario, MD and Kevin Bryan Lo, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2018, 85 (10) 743-744; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.18055

    CADASIL—cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy—is due to a mutation in NOTCH3.

  • Liver enzymes, August 2018
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2018, 85 (10) 737;

    Agganis B, Lee D, Sepe T. Liver enzymes: No trivial elevations, even if asymptomatic. Cleve Clin J Med 2018; 85(8):612–617. doi:10.3949/ccjm.85a.17103

  • Calcium and vitamin D: To supplement or not?
    Ian R. Reid, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2018, 85 (9) 693-698; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.18026

    Current evidence suggests little reason to prescribe calcium, and vitamin D should be for patients with low levels.

  • Brain abscesses in a 60-year-old man
    Stella Pak, MD, Shawn Marein, DO, Victor Valencia, Damian Valencia, MD, Jessica Uhler, BS and Adam Fershko, MD, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2018, 85 (9) 672-674; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17130

    The lesions were not from compromised immunity, but from septic hematogenous spread of an odontogenic infection.

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