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  • Hypoglycemia after gastric bypass: An emerging complication
    Richard Millstein, DO and Helen M. Lawler, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2017, 84 (4) 319-328; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16064

    Post-gastric bypass hypoglycemia arises late and is probably more common than initially thought.

  • Strategies for management of intermittent fasting in patients with diabetes
    Leann Olansky, MD, FACP, FACE
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2017, 84 (5) 357-358; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16118

    The focus is on avoiding hypoglycemia, but patients also need to know the risks of hyperglycemia and ketoacidosis.

  • Necrotizing pancreatitis: Diagnose, treat, consult
    Tiffany Y. Chua, MD, R. Matthew Walsh, MD, FACS, Mark E. Baker, MD and Tyler Stevens, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2017, 84 (8) 639-648; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16052

    Patients may need intensive care, nutritional support, antibiotics, and radiologic, endoscopic, or surgical interventions.

  • Tickborne diseases other than Lyme in the United States
    Christa Eickhoff, MD and Jason Blaylock, MD, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2017, 84 (7) 555-567; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16110

    Consider them in patients with known or potential tick exposure and fever or vague constitutional symptoms.

  • Palmar erythema as a sign of cancer
    Michitaka Maekawa, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2017, 84 (9) 666-667; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16114

    Red palms in an elderly patient can be due to a number of systemic diseases.

  • Imaging suggestive, but symptoms atypical
    Mohammad Afzalimoghaddam, MD, Maryam Edalatifard, MD, Shervin Farahmand, MD, Shahram Bagheri-Hariri, MD and Hadi Mirfazaelian, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2017, 84 (1) 25-26; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15144

    Pseudosubarachnoid hemorrhage is an artifact of CT imaging.

  • Evidence helps, but some decisions remain within the art of medicine
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2017, 84 (2) 88-90; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84b.02017

    In bacterial meningitis, precise diagnosis by lumbar puncture both offers benefit and poses risk.

  • 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
  • Staying afloat in a sea of information: Point-of-care resources
    Rebecca Andrews, MS, MD, FACP, Neil Mehta, MBBS,MS,FACP, Jack Maypole, MD and Stephen A. Martin, MD, EdM
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2017, 84 (3) 225-235; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15087

    We can refine our skills in accessing, sorting, and interpreting scientific evidence.

  • Confusion and hypercalcemia in an 80-year-old man
    Keren Zhou, MD, Steven Assalita, MD and Susan E. Williams, MS, RD, MD, FACP FACE
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2017, 84 (4) 281-286; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16017

    His total serum calcium level is 14.4 mg/dL. What is the cause?

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