Imaging

  • Median arcuate ligament syndrome: Incidental finding or real problem?
    Bayarmaa Mandzhieva, MD, Hammad Zafar, MD, Akriti Jain, MD and Manoucher Manoucheri, MD, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2021, 88 (3) 140-142; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20052

    A woman was admitted with pain in the epigastrium and right upper quadrant that radiated to the back, as well as nausea and dry heaves.

  • Median arcuate ligament syndrome: A clinical dilemma
    John H. Rodriguez, MD, FACS
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2021, 88 (3) 143-144; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.21001

    Patients with chronic abdominal pain can benefit from a multidisciplinary evaluation.

  • A cutaneous clue to HIV infection
    Stephen Chan, MD and Paul Aronowitz, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2021, 88 (3) 145-146; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20042

    A retired trucker presented with fever, cough, dyspnea, and a rash on his forehead.

  • Not all wheezing is COPD
    Vipul Patel, MD and Nikhil Madan, MD, FCCP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2021, 88 (3) 147-149; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20101

    A missed diagnosis led to inappropriate referral for lung transplant.

  • All that wheezes…
    Aparna Bhat, MD and Rendell W. Ashton, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2021, 88 (3) 150-153; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20198

    All that wheezes is not asthma, but it is airway obstruction of one kind or another.

  • Imaging to evaluate suspected infective endocarditis
    Imaging to evaluate suspected infective endocarditis
    Ikram-Ul Haq, MD, Iqraa Haq, BS, Brian Griffin, MD and Bo Xu, MD, FACC, FRACP, FASE
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2021, 88 (3) 163-172; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.19142

    What if echocardiographic findings are initially negative and the patient continues to have bacteremia?

  • Pacemaker lead-induced venous thoracic outlet syndrome
    Abhinav Sood, MBBS, MD, Daniel Benhuri, MD, Ujjwal Rastogi, MD and Ramesh M. Gowda, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2021, 88 (2) 75-76; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20023

    Acute arm swelling and pain after an airline flight and a missed anticoagulant dose.

  • Severe chemical pneumonitis from tetrahydrocannabinol ‘vaping’ and ‘dabbing’
    Alisha Kamboj, MD, MBA, Tony Kamel, MD, Martin Burbank, MD, Melisa Esposito, MD and Russell Shaen Harvey, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2021, 88 (2) 77-79; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20071

    THC products have been implicated in an outbreak of lung injury.

  • Assessing stable coronary artery disease
    Taher Modarressi, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2020, 87 (12) 713; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87c.12003

    Differences between the coronary calcium score and CT coronary angiography

  • In Reply: Assessing stable coronaryartery disease
    Vinayak Nagaraja, MD and A. Michael Lincoff, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2020, 87 (12) 714; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87c.12004

    CT angiography is the appropriate test to exclude left main disease.

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