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  • Immune thrombocytopenia: No longer ‘idiopathic’
    Keith McCrae, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 358-373; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78gr.10005

    Once regarded as idiopathic, immune thrombocytopenia is now understood to involve both accelerated platelet destruction and impaired platelet production.

  • In reply: Iron therapy and infection (March 2011)
    Ehab Daoud, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 355; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78c.06002
  • How to manage type 2 diabetes in medical and surgical patients in the hospital
    Guillermo E. Umpierrez, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 379-384; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78gr.11001

    Many patients admitted to the hospital have diabetes mellitus—diagnosed or undiagnosed—and others develop hyperglycemia from the stress of hospitalization.

  • Subphrenic abscess from a perforated duodenal ulcer
    Yue Shen, MD, MS, Philip Ong, MD, Niel Gandhi, BS and Angela Degirolamo, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 377-378; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78a.10098

    A 55-year-old man presents after 3 weeks of sharp epigastric pain radiating to the right upper quadrant, fever, and generalized weakness.

  • Managing bloodstream infections (January 2011)
    Fernando S. Dias, Phd
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 356; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78c.06003
  • Statin myopathy: A common dilemma not reflected in clinical trials
    Genaro Fernandez, MD, Erica S. Spatz, MD, Charles Jablecki, MD and Paul S. Phillips, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 393-403; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78a.10073

    When a patient taking a statin complains of muscle aches, is he or she experiencing statin-induced myopathy or some other problem? Should the statin be discontinued?

  • In reply: Managing bloodstream infections (January 2011)
    Daniel S. Chertow, MD and Naomi O’Grady, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 356; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78c.06004
  • The pain of cholesterol-lowering therapy
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 354; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78b.11006

    It seems that everyone “knows” that statins cause muscle pain, including many patients with hypercholesterolemia.

  • Iron therapy and infection (March 2011)
    Chia-Ter Chao, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 355; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78c.06001

    Readers comment on iron therapy and infection (March 2011), and managing bloodstream infections (January 2011).

  • Progressive muscle weakness: More there than meets the eye
    Siwar Albashir, MD, Leann Olansky, MD and Madhu Sasidhar, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 385-391; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78a.10116

    A 56-year-old woman presents with proximal weakness in all four limbs. What are the possible causes?

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