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  • Postoperative delirium in a 64-year-old woman
    Matthew Imm, MD, Luis F. Torres, MD and Mohan Kottapally, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2017, 84 (9) 690-698; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16102

    Nine days after surgery, her mental status takes an abrupt turn for the worse. What is going on?

  • 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.

  • Secondary syphilis
    Emma Coleman, DO, Andre Fiahlo, MD and Andrei Brateanu, MD, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2017, 84 (7) 510-511; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16089

    A 39-year-old man presents with generalized weakness, headache, nausea, and migratory arthralgia.

  • 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.

  • Pharmacotherapy for obesity: What you need to know
    Sophie Bersoux, MD, MPH, Tina H. Byun, MD, Swarna S. Chaliki, MD and Kenneth G. Poole, MD, MBA
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2017, 84 (12) 951-958; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16094

    Weight-loss drugs are not magic pills, but they can help when used along with diet, exercise, and other lifestyle changes.

  • 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.

  • Results of the GLAGOV trial
    Steven E. Nissen, MD and Stephen J. Nicholls, MBBS, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2017, 84 (12 suppl 4) e1-e5; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84.s4.01
  • 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.

  • Breast calcifications mimicking pulmonary nodules
    Moiz Salahuddin, MD, Thomas Reilly, MD and Jorge Mora, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2017, 84 (8) 584-585; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16048

    Radiography suggested the lesions were in the lungs, but CT and mammography said otherwise.

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