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  • S aureus bacteremia: TEE and infectious disease consultation
    Susan J. Rehm, MD, FIDSA, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2018, 85 (7) 521-522; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.18061

    Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia demands further evaluation, as up to 25% of people who have it may have endocarditis.

  • Cardiac rehabilitation: A class 1 recommendation
    Margo Simon, DO, Kaitlyn Korn, DO, Leslie Cho, MD, Gordon G. Blackburn, PhD and Chad Raymond, DO
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2018, 85 (7) 551-558; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17037

    Despite proven benefi ts, referral and participation rates remain low. Efforts to boost usage are underway.

  • What inpatient treatments do we have for acute intractable migraine?
    Ashhar S. Ali, DO and Mark Stillman, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2018, 85 (7) 514-516; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17049

    Options: volume repletion, antiemetics, antiepileptics, NSAIDs, corticosteroids, and magnesium sulfate. Avoid opioids.

  • In reply: ‘Non-criteria’ antiphospholipid antibodies and thrombosis (February 2018)
    Maya Serhal, MD, Heather Gornik, MD, RVT, RPVI and Natalie Evans, MD, RPVI
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 432; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85c.06002
  • Reverse T3 or perverse T3? Still puzzling after 40 years
    Cristiane Gomes-Lima, MD and Kenneth D. Burman, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 450-455; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17079

    Few situations require measuring reverse T3; diagnosis of euthyroid sick syndrome may be one of them.

  • Thoracic aortic aneurysm: How to counsel, when to refer
    Thoracic aortic aneurysm: How to counsel, when to refer
    Frank Cikach, MD, Milind Y. Desai, MD, FACC, FAHA, FESC, Eric E. Roselli, MD, FACS and Vidyasagar Kalahasti, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 481-492; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17039

    Be alert for clues on chest imaging, and consider screening fi rst-degree relatives of patients known to have aortic disease.

  • Necrotizing fasciitis after a watercraft accident
    Natsu Fukui, MD, Mark Delman, MD, Tuyethoa N. Vinh, MD and Svetolik Djurkovic, MD, FACCP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 448-449; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17096

    Despite intravenous antibiotics and surgical debridement, the patient’s right leg had to be amputated.

  • Evaluating suspected pulmonary hypertension: A structured approach
    Akshay Bhatnagar, MD, Jonathan Wiesen, MD, Raed Dweik, MD and Neal F. Chaisson, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 468-480; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17065

    With a myriad of causes and nonspecifi c symptoms, pulmonary hypertension needs a methodic diagnostic approach.

  • ‘Non-criteria’ antiphospholipid antibodies and thrombosis (February 2018)
    Satish Maharaj, MBBS, Simone Chang, MBBS and Marwan Shaikh, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 431-432; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85c.06001

    Readers comment on antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (February 2018).

  • Training physician leaders to save the health system… and us
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 427-428; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85b.06018

    The success of the health system and the emotional well-being and clinical skills of its physicians are clearly interrelated.

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