Latest Articles

  • Progressive muscle weakness: More there than meets the eye
    Siwar Albashir, MD, Leann Olansky, MD and Madhu Sasidhar, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 385-391; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78a.10116

    A 56-year-old woman presents with proximal weakness in all four limbs. What are the possible causes?

  • Scar reactivation and dry cough
    Giulia Rech, MD, Riccardo Balestri, MD, Federico Bardazzi, MD, Bianca Maria Piraccini, MD, PhD and Annalisa Patrizi, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 375-376; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78a.10132

    A 52-year-old woman has swelling and redness of seven old scars and a dry cough. What diagnostic test should be performed?

  • ST-segment depression and T-wave inversion: Classification, differential diagnosis, and caveats
    ST-segment depression and T-wave inversion: Classification, differential diagnosis, and caveats
    Elias B. Hanna, MD and David Luke Glancy, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 404-414; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78a.10077

    Knowing the characteristic patterns is critical for a timely diagnosis of life-threatening disorders.

  • Immune thrombocytopenia: No longer ‘idiopathic’
    Keith McCrae, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 358-373; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78gr.10005

    Once regarded as idiopathic, immune thrombocytopenia is now understood to involve both accelerated platelet destruction and impaired platelet production.

  • In reply: Iron therapy and infection (March 2011)
    Ehab Daoud, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 355; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78c.06002
  • How to manage type 2 diabetes in medical and surgical patients in the hospital
    Guillermo E. Umpierrez, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 379-384; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78gr.11001

    Many patients admitted to the hospital have diabetes mellitus—diagnosed or undiagnosed—and others develop hyperglycemia from the stress of hospitalization.

  • Subphrenic abscess from a perforated duodenal ulcer
    Yue Shen, MD, MS, Philip Ong, MD, Niel Gandhi, BS and Angela Degirolamo, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 377-378; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78a.10098

    A 55-year-old man presents after 3 weeks of sharp epigastric pain radiating to the right upper quadrant, fever, and generalized weakness.

  • Managing bloodstream infections (January 2011)
    Fernando S. Dias, Phd
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 356; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78c.06003
  • Statin myopathy: A common dilemma not reflected in clinical trials
    Genaro Fernandez, MD, Erica S. Spatz, MD, Charles Jablecki, MD and Paul S. Phillips, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 393-403; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78a.10073

    When a patient taking a statin complains of muscle aches, is he or she experiencing statin-induced myopathy or some other problem? Should the statin be discontinued?

  • In reply: Managing bloodstream infections (January 2011)
    Daniel S. Chertow, MD and Naomi O’Grady, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2011, 78 (6) 356; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.78c.06004

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