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- Cervical cancer screening in high-risk patients: Clinical challenges in primary care
The authors provide up-to-date guidance on cervical cancer screening, surveillance, and management for high-risk patients.
- Skin manifestations in a patient with acute bacterial infective endocarditis
During a dialysis session, the patient experienced the onset of rigors accompanied by the appearance of painless purpuric lesions, which developed into petechiae.
- What are options for my patients with erectile dysfunction who have an unsatisfactory response to PDE5 inhibitors?
Alternative therapies include intracavernosal injection, vacuum erection devices, and penile prosthesis implantation.
- Continuous glucose monitoring: High-tech devices still need some low-tech backup
High-end devices that monitor patients’ physiology offer many benefits, but device malfunctions and disruptions are not rare events.
- Fixed drug eruption due to ibuprofen
The patient had a 2-month history of a lesion on the left groin that caused a burning sensation.
- Using continuous glucose monitoring data in daily clinical practice
The authors review data elements of the Ambulatory Glucose Profile Report, a standardized format for displaying glucose monitoring data, and present a structured approach to using the data to optimize glycemic management.
- Sorting out aortic aneurysms: A team enterprise
Aortic aneurysms present considerable diagnostic and treatment challenges owing to their diverse causes, incomplete understanding of pathogenesis, and variations in presentation and disease course.
- Abdominal pain in a patient with epistaxis, telangiectasias, and arteriovenous malformations
The pain was radiating to the back, exacerbated by eating, and accompanied by intermittent nausea and fatigue.
- Salt-and-pepper skin pigmentation
Dermoscopy of the skin lesions revealed homogeneous depigmented areas with perifollicular pigmentation.
- Treatment of H pylori infection
In the August 2024 issue, the article “Helicobacter pylori: A concise review of the latest treatments against an old foe” by Aldhaleei WA, Wallace MB, Harris DM, Bi Y [Cleve Clin J Med 2024; 91(8):481–487; doi:10.3949/ccjm.91a.24031] contained an error in the first paragraph of the section titled “Proton pump inhibitor or potassium-competitive acid blockers” (pages 484–485).