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  • Laboratory tests in rheumatology: A rational approach
    Ernest Suresh, MD, FRCP (LONDON)
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2019, 86 (3) 198-210; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18076

    Negative results are not always reassuring, and false-positive results pose risks.

  • Norwegian scabies
    Hiroki Matsuura, MD, Akemi Senoo, MD, PhD, Mari Saito, MD and Yuko Fujimoto, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2019, 86 (3) 163-164; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18081

    Norwegian scabies is extremely contagious, and outbreaks can spread in institutions.

  • Does early repolarization on ECG increase the risk of cardiac death in healthy people?
    Ziad Sayedahmad, MD, Fahed Darmoch, MD, Yasser Al-Khadra, MD, Amjad Kabach, MD and M. Chadi Alraies, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2019, 86 (3) 165-166; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.17032

    No. In patients without symptoms, early repolarization is nearly always a benign incidental finding.

  • Three neglected numbers in the CBC: The RDW, MPV, and NRBC count
    Jori E. May, MD, Marisa B. Marques, MD, Vishnu V.B. Reddy, MD and Radhika Gangaraju, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2019, 86 (3) 167-172; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18072

    These values have diagnostic utility and potential prognostic significance.

  • Flu or strep? Rapid tests can mislead
    Burke A. Cunha, MD, MACP and Nonso Osakwe, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2019, 86 (3) 161-162; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18094

    Group A streptococci are common colonizers with viral pharyngitis.

  • Hypertension guidelines January 2019
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2019, 86 (3) 210;

    The article Aleyadeh W, Hutt-Centeno E, Ahmed HM, Shah NP. Hypertension guidelines: treat patients, not numbers. Cleve Clin J Med 2019; 86(1):47–56. doi:10.3949/ccjm.86a.18027 contained an error.

  • Dancing sternal wires: A radiologic sign of sternal dehiscence
    Mohamed M. Gad, MD and Amit Gupta, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2019, 86 (2) 87-88; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18091

    Loose fragments of bone and wire pose a danger of puncturing the heart, making sternal dehiscence a surgical emergency.

  • Managing malignant pleural effusion
    Ali Saeed Wahla, MBBS, Mateen Uzbeck, MBBS, Yaser Abu El Sameed, MBBS and Zaid Zoumot, MBBS, MRCP, MSC, PHD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2019, 86 (2) 95-99; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.17095

    Depending on the circumstances, options are observation, thoracentesis, an indwelling catheter, and chemical pleurodesis.

  • Breast augmentation surgery: Clinical considerations
    Breast augmentation surgery: Clinical considerations
    Demetrius M. Coombs, MD, Ritwik Grover, MD, Alexandre Prassinos, MD and Raffi Gurunluoglu, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2019, 86 (2) 111-122; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18017

    The evolution of breast implants, their complications, and key considerations with regard to aesthetic breast surgery.

  • Heart failure guidelines: What you need to know about the 2017 focused update
    Lee Rodney Haselhuhn, MD, Daniel J. Brotman, MD and Ilan Shor Wittstein, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2019, 86 (2) 123-139; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18022

    Prevention, preserved ejection fraction, hypertension, iron, sleep apnea, and acute decompensation.

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