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  • Our Peer-Reviewers for 2024
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2025, 92 (2) 79;
  • Which patients with presumed acute infectious diarrhea in an outpatient setting should undergo gastrointestinal pathogen panel testing?
    Brittany Jackson, MD, Sabrina Billings, MD, Dana M. Harris, MD, Jane Hata, PhD and Mary S. Hedges, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2025, 92 (2) 83-86; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.24084

    Use of a gastrointestinal pathogen panel is warranted in certain individuals, such as those with fever, visible blood in the stool, sepsis, or a compromised immune system.

  • Hypoglycemia after bariatric surgery: Management updates
    Anira Iqbal, MD and Vinni Makin, MBBS, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2025, 92 (2) 103-108; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.24033

    The authors discuss how to differentiate post-bariatric surgery hypoglycemia from other causes of hypoglycemia, highlight the evolving role of continuous glucose monitors in detecting it, and summarize management options.

  • Respiratory virus season: Strategies for successful navigation
    Pooja Cerrato, PharmD, BCPS and Steven Mawhorter, MD, DTM&H
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2025, 92 (2) 95-102; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.24103

    The authors review the burden, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of influenza, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus infection.

  • Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome: Diagnostic and management strategies
    Masihullah Barat, MD, David Torres Barba, MD, PhD and Gordon Ho, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2025, 92 (2) 119-127; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.24059

    The challenge lies in managing those with the Wolff-Parkinson-White pattern on electrocardiogram but no symptoms.

  • Classic diabetic ketoacidosis and the euglycemic variant: Something old, something new
    Adi E. Mehta, MD and Robert Zimmerman, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2025, 92 (1) 33-39; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.24075

    The authors review differences in the pathophysiology and management of classic diabetic ketoacidosis and the euglycemic variant, the latter of which has become more common with the increasing use of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors.

  • How can I better recognize and manage delirium in my hospitalized patients?
    Amanda Pomerantz, DO, Anna P. Shapiro-Krew, MD and Andrew Coulter, MD, MA
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2025, 92 (1) 17-20; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.24048

    By knowing common precipitants and mimickers of delirium and considerations for workup, clinicians can implement nonpharmacologic preventive strategies, better identify patients experiencing delirium, and optimize symptom management.

  • Sleep is like Rodney Dangerfield
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2025, 92 (1) 9-10; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92b.01025

    Sleep quantity (and, in some cases, quality) has been shown to impact memory and learning, mood, appetite, and pain, yet many patients and clinicians do not give sleep the respect it deserves.

  • Shortness of breath in a 52-year-old man with HIV and severe mitral regurgitation
    Felix Wangmang, MD, PharmD, Achilles Aiken, MD and Kuang-Yuh Chyu, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2025, 92 (1) 23-30; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.24060

    The patient presented with 3 weeks of acute on chronic dyspnea on exertion with progression to dyspnea at rest and associated orthopnea.

  • Common electrolyte imbalance, uncommon cause
    Saurav Shishir Agrawal, MD, DM, Sunil Kumar, MD, N. K. Soni, MD and Swati Paliwal, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2025, 92 (1) 13-15; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.24013

    A 47-year-old woman presented with 10 days of weakness, wide purple striae on the abdomen, and hyperpigmentation on the knuckles.

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