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  • ST-segment elevation: Differential diagnosis, caveats
    Elias B. Hanna, MD and David Luke Glancy, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2015, 82 (6) 373-384; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14026

    Our first concern is myocardial infarction. However, several other conditions can also cause ST elevation.

  • Alcoholic hepatitis: An important consideration (April 2015)
    Aibek E. Mirrakhimov, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2015, 82 (6) 335; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82c.06006

    Readers comment on enterovirus D-68 (January 2015), eosinophilic esophagitis (February 2015), the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (February 2015), and alcoholic hepatitis (March 2015).

  • In Reply: Eosinophilic esophagitis (February 2015)
    David A. Katzka, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2015, 82 (6) 333; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82c.06003

    Readers comment on enterovirus D-68 (January 2015), eosinophilic esophagitis (February 2015), the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (February 2015), and alcoholic hepatitis (March 2015).

  • Enterovirus D-68 presenting with acute pancreatitis (January 2015)
    Burke A. Cunha, MD, Gina Wu, MD, Marie Dumont, CIC, Eileen Abruzzo, RN, CIC and Muhammad Raza, MBBS
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2015, 82 (6) 332; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82c.06001

    Readers comment on enterovirus D-68 (January 2015), eosinophilic esophagitis (February 2015), the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (February 2015), and alcoholic hepatitis (March 2015).

  • Vaccination: Special populations are not all the same
    Atul Khasnis, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2015, 82 (6) 348-349; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14137

    Guidelines exist, but so do uncertainties.

  • Corneal opacities in a man with chronic kidney disease
    Omer Ibrahim, MD, Linda Amah, MD and Sharon E. Mace, MD, FACEP, FAAP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2015, 82 (6) 339-340; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14080

    Effects of lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase deficiency include coronary artery disease, renal disease, and corneal opacity.

  • Eosinophilic esophagitis (February 2015)
    Demetrios S. Theodoropoulos, MD and Mary S. Morris, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2015, 82 (6) 332-333; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82c.06002

    Readers comment on enterovirus D-68 (January 2015), eosinophilic esophagitis (February 2015), the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (February 2015), and alcoholic hepatitis (March 2015).

  • Improving medication safety during hospital-based transitions of care
    Kelly C. Sponsler, MD, Erin B. Neal, PharmD and Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSc
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2015, 82 (6) 351-360; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14025

    Patients being admitted to or discharged from the hospital risk harm from medication errors.

  • A 79-year-old with acute portal vein thrombosis
    Linda Zhu, MD, Heather Gornik, MD and J. Harry Isaacson, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2015, 82 (5) 287-293; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14028

    The patient, who had a history of polymyalgia rheumatica treated with corticosteroids, presented with chills and fever.

  • Stand by me! Reducing the risk of injurious falls in older adults
    Leah Beegan, DO and Barbara J. Messinger-Rapport, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2015, 82 (5) 301-307; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14041

    Practitioners can reduce falls by yearly screening and evidence-based interventions.

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