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  • Benign prostatic hyperplasia: Evaluation and medical management in primary care
    Benign prostatic hyperplasia: Evaluation and medical management in primary care
    Raman Unnikrishnan, MD, Nima Almassi, MD and Khaled Fareed, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2017, 84 (1) 53-64; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16008

    Effective medical therapy is available but underutilized in the primary care setting.

  • Is spirometry necessary to diagnose and control asthma?
    Mani Latifi, MD and Sumita Khatri, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2017, 84 (8) 597-599; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16078

    Asthma is a clinical diagnosis, but spirometry can improve how we diagnose, assess, and control it.

  • When should brain imaging precede lumbar puncture in cases of suspected bacterial meningitis?
    Aibek E. Mirrakhimov, MD, Adam Gray, MD and Taha Ayach, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2017, 84 (2) 111-113; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16028

    Few patients need it. Empiric antibiotic and corticosteroid therapy must not be delayed.

  • Heartburn or heart attack? A mimic of MI
    Willis S. Bowman, MD, Amir Farid, MD and Paul Aronowitz, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2017, 84 (9) 664-665; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16093

    The diagnosis: milk-alkali syndrome, complicated by thiazide use.

  • Bedbugs: Awareness is key
    Whitney A. High, MD, JD, MEng
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2017, 84 (3) 212-213; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.17001

    Bedbugs are back, and they are everywhere. Not all who are bitten have reactions.

  • Cardiogenic shock: From ECMO to Impella and beyond
    Cardiogenic shock: From ECMO to Impella and beyond
    Mehdi H. Shishehbor, DO, MPH, PhD, Nader Moazami, MD, Michael Z.-Y. Tong, MD, MBP, Shinya Unai, MD, W. H. Wilson Tang, MD and Edward G. Soltesz, Md, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2017, 84 (4) 287-295; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84gr.17002

    Several devices can serve as a bridge to recovery, transplant, or a long-term device.

  • Chronic constipation: Update on management
    Umar Hayat, MD, Mohannad Dugum, MD and Samita Garg, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2017, 84 (5) 397-408; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15141

    If conservative treatments fail, clinicians can choose from a growing list of new ones.

  • Aortic replacement in cardiac surgery
    Eric E. Roselli, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2017, 84 (12 suppl 4) e28-e33; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84.s4.07
  • Expanding indications for TAVR: The preferred procedure in intermediate-risk patients?
    David L. Brown, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2017, 84 (12 suppl 4) e10-e14; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84.s4.03
  • 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.

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