Latest Articles

  • Aortic valve replacement: Options, improvements, and costs
    Lars G. Svensson, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2013, 80 (4) 253-254; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.13010

    How aortic valve disease is managed continues to evolve. Issues include outcomes and costs.

  • Short QT syndrome (January 2013)
    Supawat Ratanapo, MD, Narat Srivali, MD, Wisit Cheungpasitporn, MD, Saeed Ahmed, MB, BS, Promporn Suksaranjit, MD and Daych Chongnarungsin, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2013, 80 (4) 203; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80c.04001

    Readers comment on the short QT syndrome (January 2013).

  • Detecting and controlling diabetic nephropathy: What do we know?
    Gerald Appel, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2013, 80 (4) 209-217; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80gr.12006

    Diabetic kidney disease is on the rise. Strategies to prevent or control it are lowering blood pressure, controlling blood sugar, and inhibiting the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system.

  • Resistance of man and bug
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2013, 80 (4) 202; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80b.04013

    Why individual clinicians make specific decisions usually can be sorted out. But our behavior as a group is more difficult to understand—and to alter.

  • In Reply: Short QT syndrome (January 2013)
    Hayan Al Maluli, MD and Arnold B. Meshkov, MD, MBA, FACC
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2013, 80 (4) 203; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80c.04002

    Readers comment on the short QT syndrome (January 2013).

  • What should be the interval between bone density screenings?
    Susan M. Ott, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2013, 80 (4) 240-242; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.12166

    Doctors should not order unnecessary and expensive tests and should not recommend frequent repeated testing that does not benefit the patient.

  • Bilateral adrenal masses (December 2012)
    Maya Estephan, MD and Justin Moore, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2013, 80 (3) 186-187; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80c.03003

    Readers comment on emergency contraception (November 2012), adrenal masses (December 2012), and the use of statins for primary prevention in women (December 2012).

  • Septic shock: The initial moments and beyond
    Simon W. Lam, PharmD, Seth R. Bauer, PharmD and Jorge A. Guzman, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2013, 80 (3) 175-184; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.12002

    Evidence-based protocols have improved the outcomes of septic shock. The authors review the evidence.

  • Giant inverted T waves
    Surabhi Madhwal, MD, Vijaiganesh Nagarajan, MD, MRCP, FACP and Donald A. Underwood, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2013, 80 (3) 138-139; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80a.11139

    A 48-year-old man has large, inverted T waves in the lateral and midprecordial leads. What is the cause?

  • Emergency contraception (November 2012)
    Chris Kahlenborn, MD and Walter B. Severs, PhD, FCP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2013, 80 (3) 185; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.80c.03001

    Readers comment on emergency contraception (November 2012), adrenal masses (December 2012), and the use of statins for primary prevention in women (December 2012).

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