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  • Cardiac rehabilitation: A class 1 recommendation
    Margo Simon, DO, Kaitlyn Korn, DO, Leslie Cho, MD, Gordon G. Blackburn, PhD and Chad Raymond, DO
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2018, 85 (7) 551-558; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17037

    Despite proven benefi ts, referral and participation rates remain low. Efforts to boost usage are underway.

  • What inpatient treatments do we have for acute intractable migraine?
    Ashhar S. Ali, DO and Mark Stillman, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2018, 85 (7) 514-516; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17049

    Options: volume repletion, antiemetics, antiepileptics, NSAIDs, corticosteroids, and magnesium sulfate. Avoid opioids.

  • ‘Dry drowning’ and other myths
    David Szpilman, MD, Justin Sempsrott, MD, Jonathon Webber, RN, Seth C. Hawkins, MD, Roberto Barcala-Furelos, PhD, Andrew Schmidt, DO, MPH and Ana Catarina Queiroga, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2018, 85 (7) 529-535; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17070

    Drowning is a common and often preventable cause of death, especially in children. But dry drowning is a myth.

  • Optimizing calcium and vitamin D intake through diet and supplements
    Holly P. Kilim, MD and Harold Rosen, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2018, 85 (7) 543-550; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17106

    Set modest calcium targets, maximize dietary intake, and make up the defi cit with calcium citrate.

  • ‘Non-criteria’ antiphospholipid antibodies and thrombosis (February 2018)
    Satish Maharaj, MBBS, Simone Chang, MBBS and Marwan Shaikh, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 431-432; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85c.06001

    Readers comment on antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (February 2018).

  • Training physician leaders to save the health system… and us
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 427-428; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85b.06018

    The success of the health system and the emotional well-being and clinical skills of its physicians are clearly interrelated.

  • Aortic dissection presenting as ischemic limb
    Faiza Khalid, MD and Shikha Gupta, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 438-440; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17122

    With surgical repair and blood pressure control, the patient recovered and left the hospital 1 week later.

  • Is a detailed neurologic physical examination always necessary?
    Richard J. Lederman, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 444-445; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17110

    In medicine, we need all the help we can get.

  • Hydroxychloroquine: An old drug with new relevance
    Eugen Alexander Shippey, MD, Vanya D. Wagler, DO, FACP, FACR and Angelique N. Collamer, MD, FACP, FACR
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 459-467; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17034

    This antimalarial drug is now approved to treat discoid lupus, systemic lupus erythematosus, and rheumatoid arthritis.

  • Central nervous system lymphoma mimicking Bell palsy
    Kiyoshi Shikino, MD, PhD, Shingo Suzuki, MD, PhD, Takanori Uehara, MD, PhD and Masatomi Ikusaka, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 442-443; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17061

    Failure of presumed Bell palsy to improve should prompt an evaluation for an underlying condition.

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