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  • Monitoring patients with vasculitis
    Alexandra Villa-Forte, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2012, 79 (11 suppl 3) S34-S37; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79.s3.08
  • Emergency contraception: Separating fact from fiction
    Pelin Batur, MD, FACP, NCMP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2012, 79 (11) 771-776; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.12019

    Patients can now buy emergency contraceptives over the counter, but physicians should still take every opportunity to discuss effective contraceptive options.

  • Defining disease activity and damage in patients with small-vessel vasculitis
    Peter A. Merkel, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2012, 79 (11 suppl 3) S11-S15; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79.s3.03
  • Why not a shot of prevention?
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2012, 79 (11) 741; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79b.12011

    Last year the flu season was surprisingly mild, but this should not lull us into a lackadaisical approach to offering vaccination to all of our patients.

  • Treating vasculitis with conventional immunosuppressive agents
    David Jayne, MD, FRCP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2012, 79 (11 suppl 3) S46-S49; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79.s3.10
  • Nail pigmentation and fatigue
    Claudio Guarneri, MD, Valentina Bevelacqua, MD, PhD and Giuseppe Nunnari, MD, PhD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2012, 79 (11) 785-786; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.12011

    A number of conditions can cause discoloration of the nails. What is the diagnosis?

  • Should N-acetylcysteine be used routinely to prevent contrast-induced acute kidney injury?
    Senthil K. Sivalingam, MD, Mini V. Hariharan, MBBS, Gregory L. Braden, MD and Benjamin J. Freda, DO
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2012, 79 (11) 746-749; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.12088

    Its routine use is not supported at this time, but there is evidence to suggest giving it to patients with baseline renal dysfunction.

  • Androgen deficiency in older men: Indications, advantages, and pitfalls of testosterone replacement therapy
    John J. McGill, MD, Daniel A. Shoskes, MD and Edmund S. Sabanegh, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2012, 79 (11) 797-806; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.12010

    This, the second of two articles on hypogonadism in men, focuses on the appropriate use of testosterone therapy.

  • A rash after streptococcal infection
    Naveen K. Voore, MD, Alexis Davis, MD and Joseph Fuscaldo, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2012, 79 (11) 759-760; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.12042

    The patient, a 39-year-old woman, had been taking amoxicillin for streptococcal pharyngitis. What caused the rash?

  • Tattooing: Medical uses and problems
    Crystal M. Glassy, DO, MPH, Matthew S. Glassy, MD, MS and Saleh Aldasouqi, MD, FACE, ECNU
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2012, 79 (11) 761-770; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.12016

    Tattooing is used in medical alerts, breast reconstruction, radiation oncology, endoscopy, forensic medicine, and other areas.

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