Genetics

  • Trying to get ahead of Alzheimer disease
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2020, 87 (9) 517-518; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87b.09020

    Sorting out patients destined to have Alzheimer disease remains a challenge.

  • Thoracic aortic aneurysm: Optimal surveillance and treatment
    CME article
    Tom Kai Ming Wang, MBCHB, MD(res), FRACP and Milind Y. Desai, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2020, 87 (9) 557-568; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19140-1

    Early detection, surveillance, and treatment are critical.

  • Familial hypercholesterolemia: Clarifications
    Taher Modarressi, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2020, 87 (6) 320; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87c.06001

    Comments on xanthoma vs xanthelasmas, and goal LDL-C.

  • In Reply: Familial hypercholesterolemia: Clarifications
    Nishant P. Shah, MD,FACC, Haitham M. Ahmed, MD and W. H. Wilson Tang, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2020, 87 (6) 320; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87c.06002

    The authors' response.

  • Pediatric cholestatic liver disease: Successful transition of care
    Pediatric cholestatic liver disease: Successful transition of care
    Praveen Kumar Conjeevaram Selvakumar, MD, Vera Hupertz, MD, Naveen Mittal, MD, Kris V. Kowdley, MD and Naim Alkhouri, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2019, 86 (7) 454-464; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18140

    Many more children with liver disease are surviving into adulthood and transitioning to adult care.

  • Laboratory tests in rheumatology: A rational approach
    Ernest Suresh, MD, FRCP (LONDON)
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2019, 86 (3) 198-210; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18076

    Negative results are not always reassuring, and false-positive results pose risks.

  • When stroke runs in the family
    Nellowe Candelario, MD and Kevin Bryan Lo, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2018, 85 (10) 743-744; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.18055

    CADASIL—cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy—is due to a mutation in NOTCH3.

  • Bicuspid aortic valve: Basics and beyond
    Shailee Y. Shah, MD, Andrew Higgins, MD and Milind Y. Desai, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2018, 85 (10) 779-784; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17069

    What further testing does this 34-year-old patient need? Can he play sports? Does his newborn son need evaluation?

  • Aortic aneurysm: Fluoroquinolones, genetic counseling, June 2018
    Houriya Ayoubieh, MD and Gretchen MacCarrick, MS, CGC
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2018, 85 (9) 661-662; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85c.09002
  • 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

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