Imaging

  • Air embolism after peripheral IV contrast injection
    Justin Goodwin, MS and Karthik Gnanapandithan, MD, MS, FHM
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2020, 87 (12) 718-720; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.20001

    As little as 2 to 3 mL of air in the cerebral circulation can be fatal.

  • Does this young adult patient need a hip radiograph?
    Christina Stull, MD, MBA and Alejandro Moreno, MBBS, MPH, JD, MACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2020, 87 (12) 721-722; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.20011

    Hip fractures are uncommon in adults under age 50.

  • Optimal surveillance and treatment of renal and splenic artery aneurysms
    Optimal surveillance and treatment of renal and splenic artery aneurysms
    Tom Kai Ming Wang, MBCHB, MD(res), FRACP and Milind Y. Desai, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2020, 87 (12) 755-758; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19140-2

    Indications for repair are based on aneurysm location and risk factors for rupture.

  • Recognition and management of respiratory co-infection and secondary bacterial pneumonia in patients with COVID-19
    Chao-Ping Wu, MD, Fatima Adhi, MD and Kristin Highland, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2020, 87 (11) 659-663; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.ccc015

    Consider the presentation and trajectory of illness.

  • Contrast media in patients with kidney disease: An update
    Ali Mehdi, MD, MEd, Jonathan J. Taliercio, DO and Georges Nakhoul, MD, MEd
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2020, 87 (11) 683-694; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.20015

    The risk of acute kidney injury is real, but lower than initially thought.

  • The R in PRES
    Amado Jiménez-Ruiz, MD, Miguel García-Grimshaw, MD, Juan Andrés Calderón-Martínez, MD and Isael Reyes-Melo, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2020, 87 (10) 584-585; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87c.10001

    Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome lacks universal diagnostic criteria.

  • Miliary tuberculosis in a patient with end-stage liver disease
    Victoria Poplin, MD, Brent Harbaugh, DO, MA, Matthias Salathe, MD and Nathan C. Bahr, MD, MA
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2020, 87 (10) 590-593; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19143

    Chest radiography showed patchy left basilar consolidation with subtle, diffuse interstitial opacities.

  • When is contrast needed for abdominal and pelvic CT?
    Mark Radetic, MD, Robert DeVita, MD and John Haaga, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2020, 87 (10) 595-598; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19093

    The decision to use contrast depends on the diagnosis suspected.

  • 5-Fluorouracil–induced encephalopathy
    Yudai Yano, MD and Akira Kuriyama, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2020, 87 (9) 532-533; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19126

    A woman on chemotherapy for rectal cancer presents with mental status changes.

  • Thoracic aortic aneurysm: Optimal surveillance and treatment
    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.

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