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  • Navigating travel with diabetes
    Navigating travel with diabetes
    Rachael Mullin, OMS3, MS, Davida Kruger, MSN, APN-BC, BC-ADM, CNP, Clipper F. Young, PharmD, CDE, MPH, BC-ADM and Jay H. Shubrook, DO
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2018, 85 (7) 537-542; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17105

    Help patients plan ahead to manage diabetes while traveling and prepare for emergencies that may arise.

  • Critical care medicine: An ongoing journey
    Steven R. Insler, DO
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2018, 85 (7) 527-528; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.18015

    Although 70% of ICU patients survive hospitalization, the mortality rate 1 year after discharge may exceed 50%.

  • Osmotic demyelination syndrome due to hyperosmolar hyperglycemia
    Takanobu Hirosawa, MD and Taro Shimizu, MD, MPH, MBA
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2018, 85 (7) 511-513; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17020

    Rapid correction of chronic hyponatremia can trigger this rare but life-threatening disorder.

  • ‘Non-criteria’ antiphospholipid antibodies and thrombosis (February 2018)
    Satish Maharaj, MBBS, Simone Chang, MBBS and Marwan Shaikh, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 431-432; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85c.06001

    Readers comment on antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (February 2018).

  • Training physician leaders to save the health system… and us
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 427-428; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85b.06018

    The success of the health system and the emotional well-being and clinical skills of its physicians are clearly interrelated.

  • Aortic dissection presenting as ischemic limb
    Faiza Khalid, MD and Shikha Gupta, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 438-440; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17122

    With surgical repair and blood pressure control, the patient recovered and left the hospital 1 week later.

  • Is a detailed neurologic physical examination always necessary?
    Richard J. Lederman, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 444-445; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17110

    In medicine, we need all the help we can get.

  • Hydroxychloroquine: An old drug with new relevance
    Eugen Alexander Shippey, MD, Vanya D. Wagler, DO, FACP, FACR and Angelique N. Collamer, MD, FACP, FACR
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 459-467; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17034

    This antimalarial drug is now approved to treat discoid lupus, systemic lupus erythematosus, and rheumatoid arthritis.

  • Central nervous system lymphoma mimicking Bell palsy
    Kiyoshi Shikino, MD, PhD, Shingo Suzuki, MD, PhD, Takanori Uehara, MD, PhD and Masatomi Ikusaka, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 442-443; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17061

    Failure of presumed Bell palsy to improve should prompt an evaluation for an underlying condition.

  • Is Pap testing still needed after hysterectomy?
    Halle G. Sobel, MD, Elise Everett, MD and Laura D. Lipold, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 456-458; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17063

    There is no need to continue Pap testing after hysterectomy for a benign indication.

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