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  • Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease and the heart and brain
    Vinod Krishnappa, MBBS, Poornima Vinod, MD, Divya Deverakonda and Rupesh Raina, MD, FAAP, FACP, FASN, FNKF
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2017, 84 (6) 471-481; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16107

    Early-onset hypertension is common. Other complications include heart disease and intracranial aneurysm.

  • Swelling of both arms and chest after push-ups
    Kiyoshi Shikino, MD, PHD, Yusuke Hirota, MD and Masatomi Ikusaka, MD, PHD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2017, 84 (7) 508-509; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16030

    Symptoms of rhabdomyolysis: myalgia, muscle weakness, dark urine, and, in some, muscle swelling.

  • Labels matter: Challenging conversations or challenging people?
    Adrienne Boissy, MD, MA
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2017, 84 (7) 543-544; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16128

    Caring for patients is a complex, intricate, intimate privilege. To characterize it otherwise is to not fully understand it.

  • A patient with altered mental status and an acid-base disturbance
    Shylaja Mani, MD and Gregory W. Rutecki, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2017, 84 (1) 27-34; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16042

    Acid-base disorders can be diagnosed and characterized using a systematic, fi ve-step approach.

  • 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.

  • Statin therapy in the frail elderly: A nuanced decision
    Donald Clark, MD and Leslie S. Cho, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2017, 84 (2) 143-145; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16036

    Clinicians—and patients—may reasonably feel there is value in statin therapy—even in advanced frailty.

  • 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.

  • Altered mental status and an acid-base disturbance January 2017
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2017, 84 (3) 214;

    Errors occurred in: Mani S, Rutecki GW. A patient with altered mental status and an acid-base disturbance. Cleve Clin J Med 2017; 84:27–34.

  • Use and misuse of opioid agonists in opioid addiction
    Use and misuse of opioid agonists in opioid addiction
    Vania Modesto-Lowe, MD, MPH, Katie Swiezbin, BS, Margaret Chaplin, MD and Gabriela Hoefer
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2017, 84 (5) 377-384; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16091

    Methadone and buprenorphine can reduce craving and opioid use but remain misunderstood and underused.

  • 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

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