Latest Articles

  • The pretravel visit: A ‘teaching moment’
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2010, 77 (4) 224; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm/77a/04001

    Often, a pretravel visit is also a good time to introduce concepts of preventive health to patients who might not otherwise be accessible or amenable.

  • Giant nodules on the hands
    Salvador Arias-Santiago, MD, José Aneiros-Fernández, MD, Husein Husein-El-Ahmed, MD, María-Sierra Girón-Prieto, MD, María Antonia Fernández-Pugnaire, PhD and Ramón Naranjo-Sintes, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2010, 77 (4) 225-229; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.77a.09072

    A 78-year-old man with hyperuricemia treated with allopurinol presents with asymptomatic nodules on both hands. What is the most likely diagnosis?

  • Risks of travel, benefits of a specialist consult
    Risks of travel, benefits of a specialist consult
    Brenda Powell, MD and Charles Ford, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2010, 77 (4) 246-254; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.77a.09097

    Before going abroad to risky areas, most people ought to visit their primary care physicians, and many should be referred to a specialist in travel medicine.

  • Treating silent reflux disease does not improve poorly controlled asthma
    Brent P. Riscili, MD, Jonathan P. Parsons, MD, MSc and John G. Mastronarde, MD, MSc
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2010, 77 (3) 155-160; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.77a.09111

    A recent multicenter trial indicated that empirically prescribing a proton pump inhibitor does not help control asthma symptoms and that current guidelines need to be reevaluated.

  • Economic Aspects of Preoperative Testing
    Gerhard Fritsch, MD, Maria Flamm, MD, Josef Seer, MD and Andreas Soennichsen, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2010, 77 (3 esuppl 1) eS18;
  • Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors and Risk of Intraoperative Bleeding
    Adriana Oprea, MD and Paula Zimbrean, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2010, 77 (3 esuppl 1) eS14;
  • Stenting atherosclerotic renal arteries: Time to be less aggressive
    Stenting atherosclerotic renal arteries: Time to be less aggressive
    James F. Simon, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2010, 77 (3) 178-189; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.77a.09098

    It is time to strongly reconsider the current aggressive approach to revascularization of stenotic renal arteries and to take a more coordinated, critical approach.

  • Development of a Shared Multidisciplinary Electronic Preanesthetic Record
    Meghan Tadel, MD, R. Boyer, DO, MS, N. Smith and P. Kallas, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2010, 77 (3 esuppl 1) eS34;
  • High-Risk Preoperative Assessment for Elective Orthopedic Surgery Patients
    Terrence Adam, MD, PhD, Connie Parenti, MD, Terence Gioe, MD, Karen Ringsred, MD and Joseph Wels, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2010, 77 (3 esuppl 1) eS38;
  • Value of a Specialized Clinic for Day Admission Surgery for Cardiac and Major Vascular Operations
    George Silvay, MD, PhD, Samuel DeMaria, MD, Marietta dePerio, NP, CCRN, Ellen Hughes, MA, RN, Samantha Silvay, Marina Krol, PhD, Brigid C. Flynn, MD and David L. Reich, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2010, 77 (3 esuppl 1) eS40;

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