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  • Sleep disturbances in cancer patients: Underrecognized and undertreated
    Saurabh Dahiya, MD, Manmeet S. Ahluwalia, MD and Harneet K. Walia, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2013, 80 (11) 722-732; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.12170

    In cancer patients, sleep disturbances are a treatable problem that profoundly affect all aspects of quality of life.

  • The jugular venous pressure revisited
    The jugular venous pressure revisited
    John Michael S. Chua Chiaco, MD, Nisha I. Parikh, MD, MPH and David J. Fergusson, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2013, 80 (10) 638-644; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.13039

    Few physical findings are as useful but as undervalued as the estimation of the jugular venous pressure.

  • More than skin-deep
    Jackson Jeikai Liang, DO, Stefan Felix Cordes, MD, PhD and Thomas Elmer Witzig, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2013, 80 (10) 632-633; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.12160

    The patient had oral ulcers, a truncal rash, and blistering lesions on his hands, all of which had been getting worse for 9 months.

  • Hepatocellular carcinoma: Options for diagnosing and managing a deadly disease
    Arvind R. Murali, MD, Carlos Romero-Marrero, MD, Federico Aucejo, MD and K.V. Narayanan Menon, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2013, 80 (10) 645-653; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.12163

    Because early diagnosis improves the chances of survival, it is important to identify patients who would benefit from surveillance.

  • Another perspective: Reducing the overtreatment of pneumonia
    Thomas M. File, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2013, 80 (10) 619-620; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.13029

    Needed are better and faster ways to diagnose pneumonia and find the cause.

  • Peripheral opacity on plain chest radiography
    Mohammed A. R. Chamsi-Pasha, MBBS, Abdul Hamid Alraiyes, MD, Ihsan Mamoun, MD and M. Chadi Alraies, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2013, 80 (10) 621-624; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.13006

    Sometimes, careful observation can detect unusual signs of a common and serious condition.

  • A practical approach to prescribing antidepressants
    Elizabeth Shultz, DO and Donald A. Malone, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2013, 80 (10) 625-631; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.12133

    Although antidepressant drugs do not differ much in their efficacy, a particular drug may be a better choice in a given patient.

  • Antisynthetase syndrome: Not just an inflammatory myopathy
    Soumya Chatterjee, MD, MS, FRCP, Richard Prayson, MD and Carol Farver, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2013, 80 (10) 655-666; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.12171

    With its variety of clinical presentations, it should be in the differential diagnosis for patients with unexplained interstitial lung disease.

  • The overdiagnosis of pneumonia
    Vinay Prasad, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2013, 80 (10) 616-618; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.12180

    We are hospitalizing more patients with “pneumonia,” but it has not improved outcomes.

  • An uncommon syndrome makes us reflect on our approach to diagnosis
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2013, 80 (10) 609-610; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80b.10013

    Antisynthetase syndrome reminds us to stay grounded in the fundamentals of clinical care: careful listening, purposeful examination, and directed use of tests.

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