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  • Left ventricular thrombosis can still complicate acute myocardial infarction
    Left ventricular thrombosis can still complicate acute myocardial infarction
    Muhammad Umer Tariq, MD, Ali M. Tariq, MD, Carmela D. Tan, MD, E. Rene Rodriguez, MD and Venu Menon, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11) 819-826; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.14078

    Despite revascularization, the next day the patient had an ejection fraction of 35% and a mass in the left ventricle.

  • Influenza: Still more important than Zika virus in 2016–2017
    Sherif Beniameen Mossad, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FAST
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11) 836-840; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.16105

    Despite all the news reports, infl uenza still kills or hospitalizes more people than Zika.

  • Breaking the pain contract: A better controlled-substance agreement for patients on chronic opioid therapy
    Daniel G. Tobin, MD, FACP, Kristine Keough Forte, MS, MA, DBioethics and Summer Johnson McGee, PhD, CPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11) 827-835; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15172

    Common limitations of current pain treatment “contracts,” and strategies to improve them.

  • Plexiform neurofibroma
    Satvinder Singh Bakshi, MS, DNB
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11) 792; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.16002

    A 19-year-old woman presented with diffuse swelling on her neck and face that had been growing gradually for 12 years.

  • In reply: Menopausal hormone therapy (August 2016)
    Laura Dorr Lipold, MD, Pelin Batur, MD, NCMP, CCD and Risa Kagan, MD, FACOG, CCD, NCMP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11) 778-785; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83c.11002
  • Bilateral earlobe creases and coronary artery disease
    Abhishek Sharma, MD, Chukwudi Obiagwu, MD and Ekaterina Sikorskaya, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11) 786-787; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15160

    Bilateral earlobe creases may be useful to look for in cases of suspected coronary artery disease.

  • Update on the management of intestinal failure
    Shishira Bharadwaj, MD, Parul Tandon, DO, John M. Rivas, MD, Anne Furman, RD, Lisa Moccia, RD, Ashley Ratliff, RD, Abdullah Shatnawei, MD, Ezra Steiger, MD and Donald F. Kirby, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11) 841-848; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15045

    Bowel resection can lead to inability to maintain nutritional homeostasis, a serious complication.

  • Transcatheter mitral valve replacement: A frontier in cardiac intervention
    Amar Krishnaswamy, MD, Stephanie Mick, MD, Jose Navia, MD, A. Marc Gillinov, MD, E. Murat Tuzcu, MD and Samir R. Kapadia, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11 suppl 2) S10-S17; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83.s2.02
  • Bioresorbable stents: The future of interventional cardiology?
    Stephen G. Ellis, MD and Haris Riaz, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11 suppl 2) S18-S23; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83.s2.03
  • Leadless cardiac pacing: What primary care providers and non-EP cardiologists should know
    Erich L. Kiehl, MD and Daniel J. Cantillon, MD, FACC, FHRS
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11 suppl 2) S24-S34; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83.s2.04

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