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  • Left ventricular thrombosis can still complicate acute myocardial infarction
    Left ventricular thrombosis can still complicate acute myocardial infarction
    Muhammad Umer Tariq, MD, Ali M. Tariq, MD, Carmela D. Tan, MD, E. Rene Rodriguez, MD and Venu Menon, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11) 819-826; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.14078

    Despite revascularization, the next day the patient had an ejection fraction of 35% and a mass in the left ventricle.

  • Influenza: Still more important than Zika virus in 2016–2017
    Sherif Beniameen Mossad, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FAST
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11) 836-840; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.16105

    Despite all the news reports, infl uenza still kills or hospitalizes more people than Zika.

  • Breaking the pain contract: A better controlled-substance agreement for patients on chronic opioid therapy
    Daniel G. Tobin, MD, FACP, Kristine Keough Forte, MS, MA, DBioethics and Summer Johnson McGee, PhD, CPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11) 827-835; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15172

    Common limitations of current pain treatment “contracts,” and strategies to improve them.

  • Eruptive xanthoma: Warning sign of systemic disease
    Gillian Roga, MD and Madhukhara Jithendriya, DNB
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2016, 83 (10) 715-716; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15126

    Initial laboratory testing showed a triglyceride level of 5,742 mg/dL.

  • Obstructive sleep apnea (January 2016)
    David L. Keller, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2016, 83 (10) 703; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83c.10001

    A reader comments on obstructive sleep apnea (January 2016).

  • Update in perioperative cardiac medicine
    Steven L. Cohn, MD, MS, FACP, SFHM, Suparna Dutta, MD, MPH, Barbara A. Slawski, MD, MS, FACP, SFHM, Paul J. Grant, MD, SFHM, FACP and Gerald W. Smetana, MD, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2016, 83 (10) 723-730; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.16076

    Risk assessment, risk reduction, antiplatelet therapy after stent placement, and bridging anticoagulation.

  • Air leakage in multiple compartments after endoscopy
    Amanda Grippen Goddard, DO, Bryan McConomy, MD, Girish Bathla, MBBS, FRCR, Muhammad Furqan, MBBS and William B. Silverman, MD, FACG, FASGE, AGAF
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2016, 83 (10) 705-707; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15168

    An attempt to cannulate the common bile duct led to abdominal pain and distention and crepitus of the right chest wall.

  • In reply: Obstructive sleep apnea (January 2016)
    Mahesh B. Manne, MD, MPH and Gregory Rutecki, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2016, 83 (10) 703-704; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83c.10002
  • Concurrent uvulitis and epiglottitis
    William Shomali, MD and Katherine Holman, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2016, 83 (10) 712-714; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15078

    A 66-year-old woman presented with fever, cough, odynophagia, and anterior neck pain.

  • Evolution of heart failure management: Miles to go
    James B. Young, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2016, 83 (10) 766-768; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.16043

    Despite progress, too many patients still suffer, too many die too young, and the costs are still too great.

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