Geriatrics

  • In Reply: DXA after menopause
    Kristi Tough DeSapri, MD and Rachel Brook, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2020, 87 (8) 457-458; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87c.08004
  • Clinical presentation and course of COVID-19
    Ryan Miller, DO and Kristin Englund, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2020, 87 (7) 384-388; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.ccc013

    Information about the clinical presentation and course of COVID-19 is rapidly evolving.

  • Glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis: Insights for the clinician
    Shakaib Hayat, MD and Marina N. Magrey, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2020, 87 (7) 417-426; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19039

    Glucocorticoids cause significant bone loss, predominantly affecting trabecular bone, with consequent fragility fractures.

  • Optimize your documentation to improve Medicare reimbursement
    Ecler Ercole Jaqua, MD, Robert Chi, MD, Wessam Labib, MD, MPH, Marcos Uribe, MD, Juan Najarro, MD and Mary Hanna, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2020, 87 (7) 427-434; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19116

    There’s nothing more frustrating than not getting credit for work performed.

  • COVID-19 serologic testing: FAQs and caveats
    Kamran Kadkhoda, PhD, D(ABMM), D(ABMLI)
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2020, 87 (6) 329-333; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.20054

    Is serology a possible alternative to direct testing?

  • Vertebral fractures after denosumab cessation
    Jolan Dupont, MD, Michaël R. Laurent, MD,PhD, Lenore Dedeyne, MSc, Frank P. Luyten, MD,PhD, Evelien Gielen, MD,PhD and Marian Dejaeger, MD,PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2020, 87 (6) 337-338; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19152

    The patient had a 6-month history of lumbar and dorsal back pain, initially suspected to be facet arthrosis.

  • Denosumab cessation
    Chad L. Deal, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2020, 87 (6) 339-341; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.20040

    Bone loss is rapid if patients miss injections. Clinicians can take extra measures to ensure patients get appropriate treatment.

  • Recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection: Recognition, management, prevention
    Constantine Tsigrelis, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2020, 87 (6) 347-359; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87gr.20001
  • Aspirin for primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular events
    Aldo L. Schenone, MD and A. Michael Lincoff, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2020, 87 (5) 300-311; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19045

    A more limited role for aspirin as primary prevention in patients at intermediate risk, with diabetes, and the elderly.

  • Constitutional symptoms, pathologic PET-CT
    Julia L. Riera, MD, Jorge L. Musuruana, MD, Fernando Faccio, MD and Javier A. Cavallasca, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2020, 87 (4) 195-197; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19053

    PET-CT showed diffuse hypermetabolism of the great vessel walls, compatible with large-vessel giant cell arteritis.

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