Imaging

  • Gallstones: Watch and wait, or intervene?
    Gallstones: Watch and wait, or intervene?
    Mounir Ibrahim, MD, Shashank Sarvepalli, MD, Gareth Morris-Stiff, MD, PhD, Maged Rizk, MD, Amit Bhatt, MD, R. Matthew Walsh, MD, Umar Hayat, MD, Ari Garber, MD, EdD, John Vargo, MD and Carol A. Burke, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2018, 85 (4) 323-331; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17035

    Consider laparoscopic cholecystectomy for symptomatic cholelithiasis, expectant management for asymptomatic cases.

  • Gas under the right diagphragm (February 2018)
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2018, 85 (4) 332;

    Errors occurred in Matsuura H, Hata H. Gas under the right diaphragm. Cleve Clin J Med 2018; 85(2):98–100.

  • Ascites from intraperitoneal urine leakage after pelvic radiation
    Tatsuya Fujikawa, MD, PhD and Yasuharu Tokuda, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2018, 85 (3) 188-189; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17028

    Six years earlier, the patient had undergone hysterectomy and chemoradiotherapy for cervical cancer.

  • Which test for CAD should be used in patients with left bundle branch block?
    Bo Xu, MBBS (Hons), Paul Cremer, MD, Wael Jaber, MD, Stuart Moir, MBBS, PhD, Serge C. Harb, MD and L. Leonardo Rodriguez, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2018, 85 (3) 224-230; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17051

    CT angiography is the fi rst-line test in those under 65; for older patients there are SPECT and dobutamine echocardiography.

  • A 75-year-old with abdominal pain, hypoxia, and weak pulses in the left leg
    Maya Serhal, MD, Natalie Evans, MD, RPVI and Heather L. Gornik, MD, RVT, RPVI
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2018, 85 (2) 145-154; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.16069

    Workup revealed the patient had both arterial and venous thrombosis. What was the cause?

  • Gas under the right diaphragm
    Hiroki Matsuura, MD and Hidenori Hata, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2018, 85 (2) 98-100; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.16139

    The patient was found to have volvulus and obstruction of the bowel.

  • Detecting and managing device leads inadvertently placed in the left ventricle
    Detecting and managing device leads inadvertently placed in the left ventricle
    Richard G. Trohman, MD, MBA and Parikshit S. Sharma, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2018, 85 (1) 69-75; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17012

    How it happens, how to prevent it, how to detect and correct it immediately, and how to manage cases discovered long after.

  • Scapular rash and endocrine neoplasia
    Muhammed Razmi T, MD, DNB, Debajyoti Chatterjee, MD and Davinder Parsad, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2017, 84 (11) 831-832; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16121

    A woman in her 30s presents with an itchy skin-colored rash over her scapula of 8 years’ duration.

  • Iliopsoas abscess
    Yu Li, MD, Hiraku Funakoshi, MD, MPH, PhD, Takashi Shiga, MD, MPH and Shigeki Fujitani, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2017, 84 (11) 833-834; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.17002

    A 52-year-old woman with diabetes presents with pain in her lower abdomen and back.

  • Fever after recent travel
    Habib Rehman, MBBS, FRCPC, FRCPI, FRCP (GLAS), FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2017, 84 (11) 840-846; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16046

    The patient had been taking a TNF-alpha inhibitor and had recently returned from Mexico.

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