Rheumatology
- Statin intolerance and new lipid-lowering treatments
The benefits and safety of statin therapy are clear, but adverse effects continue to pose diagnostic and therapeutic challenges.
- Promoting physical activity in older women to maximize health
The optimal type, intensity, and level required to achieve specific health outcomes depend on the disease the patient and clinician are trying to prevent or manage.
- Evolving distal signs
The patient’s evolving signs and symptoms prompted a reconsideration of his diagnosis.
- COVID-19: An unwelcome guest that won’t leave
Long-lasting economic and societal effects, and lingering post-infection symptoms.
- Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection: Caring for the ‘long-haulers’
An estimated 10% of COVID-19 survivors continue to experience symptoms weeks to months after symptoms appear.
- What is causing the ‘long-hauler’ phenomenon after COVID-19?
We are still early in our understanding of COVID-19 and its many manifestations.
- Quetiapine for primary insomnia: Consider the risks
Its cardiometabolic effects and potential for abuse warrant caution in off-label use.
- Recognizing a retirement, and a calcium deposition syndrome
Personnel changes at CCJM, and underrecognition of calcium deposition in the cervical spine.
- Crowned dens syndrome: Caution about asymptomatic calcification
An 88-year-old man developed fever, headache, and posterior neck pain resistant to initial therapy.
- Calcium pyrophosphate deposition and crowned dens syndrome
Patients are typically over age 65, often with significant leukocytosis and dramatically elevated inflammatory markers.