Hematology

  • Correction
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2020, 87 (2) 79;

    The article, “Fever in a traveler returning from Ethiopia,” by Ken Koon Wong, MD (Cleve Clin J Med 2020; 87(1):31–42; doi:10.3949/ccjm.87a.19017) contained an error in Table 7.

  • Sickle cell disease: A primary care update
    Grace Onimoe, MD and Seth Rotz, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2020, 87 (1) 19-27; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.18051

    Survival has improved, but patients still face multiorgan damage, chronic anemia, and debilitating pain crises.

  • Gene therapy in sickle cell disease: Possible utility and impact
    Susanna A. Curtis, MD, MS and Niketa C. Shah, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2020, 87 (1) 28-29; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19124

    CRISPR-Cas9 makes it possible to edit the patient’s own genes, but questions remain.

  • Fever in a traveler returning from Ethiopia
    Ken Koon Wong, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2020, 87 (1) 31-42; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19017

    His symptoms began about 10 days after returning and had been going on for 11 days. What was the cause?

  • Modifying genetic diseases: Promises to be realized?
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2020, 87 (1) 7-8; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87b.01020

    Genetic engineering offers hope to patients and families who previously had little.

  • Atraumatic splenic rupture in acute myeloid leukemia
    Karthik Gnanapandithan, MD, MS
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2019, 86 (11) 715-716; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.19042

    Atraumatic splenic rupture is rare but potentially life-threatening, especially if the diagnosis is delayed.

  • A complication of enoxaparin injection
    Ahmad Muneer Sharayah, MD, Samrah Zaigham, MD, Noor Hajjaj, MD and Mihir Maniar, DO
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2019, 86 (10) 648-649; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.19026

    Computed tomography revealed a hematoma measuring 15 by 15 cm compressing the bladder and causing hydronephrosis.

  • An unusual cause of bruising
    Tahani Atieh, DO and Alan Lichtin, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2019, 86 (8) 535-542; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18119

    The coagulation assay, particularly the prothrombin time and aPTT, is key in initially assessing a bleeding abnormality.

  • In reply: Complete blood cell count March 2019
    Jori E. May, MD, Marisa B. Marques, MD, Vishnu V. B. Reddy, MD and Radhika Gangaraju, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2019, 86 (6) 368; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86c.06002
  • Complete blood cell count March 2019
    Howard Homler, MD, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2019, 86 (6) 368; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86c.06001

    A reader comments about use of the red blood cell distribution width in the complete blood cell count (March 2019).

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