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  • A minimally invasive treatment for early GI cancers
    A minimally invasive treatment for early GI cancers
    Lady Katherine Mejía-Pérez, MD, Seiichiro Abe, MD, Tyler Stevens, MD, Mansour A. Parsi, MD, Sunguk N. Jang, MD, Ichiro Oda, MD, John J. Vargo, MD, MPH, Yutaka Saito, MD, PhD and Amit Bhatt, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2017, 84 (9) 707-717; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16063

    Endoscopic submucosal dissection allows curative resection of early malignant gastrointestinal lesions.

  • Apps and fitness trackers that measure sleep: Are they useful?
    Meghna P. Mansukhani, MD and Bhanu Prakash Kolla, MD, MRCPsych
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2017, 84 (6) 451-456; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15173

    In general, they have major shortcomings and limited utility.

  • Severely frail elderly patients do not need lipid-lowering drugs
    Laurie Herzig Mallery, MD, FRCPC, MSM, Paige Moorhouse, MD, MPH, FRCPC, MSM, Pam McLean Veysey, BSc (Pharm), Michael Allen, MD, MSc and Isobel Fleming, BScPharm, ACPR
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2017, 84 (2) 131-142; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15114

    Statins have no role as primary prevention in this population, and a minor role as secondary prevention.

  • Update on the management of venous thromboembolism
    John R. Bartholomew, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2017, 84 (12 suppl 3) 39-46; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84.s3.04
  • Channeling the flow of medical information
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2017, 84 (3) 178-179; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84b.03017

    Accesssing information today is like drinking from a firehose. We need some kind of valve to adjust the flow.

  • Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy: Uncommon presentation of lung cancer
    M. Amrutha, MBBS and T. P. Rajagopal, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2017, 84 (4) 270-272; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15167

    The patient presented with bilateral ankle joint pain, swelling of the ankles and wrists, and digital clubbing.

  • Cardiac mass: Tumor or thrombus? (July 2017)
    Mahmoud Abdelghany, MD, Moustafa Elsheshtawy, MD and Hani Kozman, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2017, 84 (9) 659; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84c.09003

    Readers comment on cardiac masses (July 2017).

  • A broken pacemaker lead in a 69-year-old woman
    Belal Kaseer, MD, Mhd Yassin Al Mouslmani, MD, David S. Hirsh, MD and Muhammad Hammadah, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2017, 84 (5) 346-347; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16075

    The patient presented with fatigue, cough, light-headedness, and a heart rate of 30 beats per minute.

  • Living with hematologic cancer: Recommendations, solutions
    Beth Faiman, PhD, MSN, APRN-BC, AOCN and Matthew Faiman, MD, MBC, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2017, 84 (7) 528-534; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15159

    Once-terminal diagnoses are now chronic conditions. Survivors need a plan.

  • Postexposure management of infectious diseases
    Mazen S. Bader, MD, MPH, Annie Brooks, BScPhm, PharmD, Deborah V. Kelly, PharmD, FCSHP, AAHIVP and Jocelyn A. Srigley, MD, MSc
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2017, 84 (1) 65-80; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15049

    People who have been exposed to an infectious disease should be evaluated promptly and systematically.

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