Latest Articles
- Coronary artery disease in diabetes: Which (if any) test is best?
Until randomized trials are done, the optimal testing strategy in patients with diabetes will remain subject to lively inferential debate.
- Diabetes and coronary artery disease: The role of stress myocardial perfusion imaging
Stress myocardial perfusion imaging holds promise but needs to undergo cost-effectiveness analysis.
- Three rheumatologic emergencies: A sore toe, a cough, hypertension
Rheumatologic emergencies are not always obvious, be it joint pain in a healthy patient or mild blood pressure elevation in a patient with scleroderma.
- Should adults with suspected acute bacterial meningitis get adjunctive corticosteroids?
Yes, they should receive dexamethasone starting with or immediately before the first dose of antibiotics.
- Coping with the influenza vaccine shortage
How to decide which patients to vaccinate and how to use antiviral drugs, in light of the vaccine shortage.
- Passing the baton
Beginning next month, current deputy editor Brian Mandell, MD, PhD, will assume the role of editor-in-chief of the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. I have enjoyed my tenure and look forward to continuing my association with the Journal.
- Medical problems in pregnancy
This month we start a new series with an article on cardiovascular problems in pregnancy; future articles will cover hypertension, selected neurologic problems, medications, and other pregnancy-related topics for the internist.
- Cardiovascular problems and pregnancy: An approach to management
We review the impact of pregnancy on a number of heart diseases (and vice versa) and offer recommendations for their management.
- Benefits of more aggressive VTE prophylaxis in hospitalized medical patients
Most hospitalized medical patients who should be receiving anticoagulants to prevent VTE according to current guidelines are not getting them, or are receiving subtherapeutic doses.