Latest Articles

  • Obesity: Are shared medical appointments part of the answer?
    Kelly Shibuya, BS, Kevin M. Pantalone, DO, ECNU, FACE and Bartolome Burguera, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2018, 85 (9) 699-706; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.18006

    Shared medical appointments allow multiple patients to be managed together by a multidisciplinary team.

  • Coronary artery calcium scoring: Its practicality and clinical utility in primary care
    Coronary artery calcium scoring: Its practicality and clinical utility in primary care
    Parth Parikh, MD, Nishant Shah, MD, Haitham Ahmed, MD, MPH, Paul Schoenhagen, MD and Maan Fares, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2018, 85 (9) 707-716; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17097

    It outperforms other risk-stratifi cation tools. Drawbacks include the possibility of unnecessary testing and incidental fi ndings.

  • Coronary artery calcium scoring: A valuable tool in primary care
    Michael B. Rothberg, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2018, 85 (9) 717-719; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.18077

    Coronary calcium scoring is safe and accurate, but who should be tested?

  • Shortness of breath, fever, cough, and more in an elderly woman
    Brody D. Slostad, MD, Megha Prasad, MD and Nandan S. Anavekar, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2018, 85 (9) 685-692; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.18030

    The patient’s many problems include ventricular tachycardia, requiring an implanted cardioverter-defi brillator and amiodarone.

  • Aortic aneurysm: Fluoroquinolones, genetic counseling, June 2018
    Mark R. Goldstein, MD, FACP and Luca Mascitelli, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2018, 85 (9) 661; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85c.09001

    Readers comment on the pathogenesis and management of aortic aneurysm (June 2018).

  • In reply: Aortic aneurysm: Fluoroquinolones, genetic counseling
    Vidyasagar Kalahasti, MD, Frank Cikach, MD, Milind Y. Desai, MD, FACC, FAHA, FESC and Eric E. Roselli, MD, FACS
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2018, 85 (9) 662; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85c.09003
  • Calcium and vitamin D: To supplement or not?
    Ian R. Reid, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2018, 85 (9) 693-698; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.18026

    Current evidence suggests little reason to prescribe calcium, and vitamin D should be for patients with low levels.

  • Brain abscesses in a 60-year-old man
    Stella Pak, MD, Shawn Marein, DO, Victor Valencia, Damian Valencia, MD, Jessica Uhler, BS and Adam Fershko, MD, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2018, 85 (9) 672-674; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17130

    The lesions were not from compromised immunity, but from septic hematogenous spread of an odontogenic infection.

  • Fournier gangrene
    Hiroki Matsuura, MD and Kazuki Iwasa, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2018, 85 (9) 664-665; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.18036

    The patient died of rapidly progressive necrotizing fasciitis of the perineum 2 hours after hospital admission.

  • How should we diagnose and manage checkpoint inhibitor-associated colitis?
    Freeha Khan, MD, Pauline Funchain, MD, Ana Bennett, MD, Tracy L. Hull, MD and Bo Shen, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2018, 85 (9) 679-683; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.18020

    Rule out infection, especially Clostridium difficile, then order colonoscopy or computed tomography.

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