Rheumatology

  • Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection: Caring for the ‘long-haulers’

    Susan Vehar, MD, Marina Boushra, MD, Prince Ntiamoah, MD and Michelle Biehl, MD, MS
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2021, 88 (5) 267-272;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.21010

    • An estimated 10% of COVID-19 survivors continue to experience symptoms weeks to months after symptoms appear.

  • Calcium pyrophosphate deposition and crowned dens syndrome

    Ann K. Rosenthal, MD
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2021, 88 (4) 206-207;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.21008

    • Patients are typically over age 65, often with significant leukocytosis and dramatically elevated inflammatory markers.

  • Crowned dens syndrome: Caution about asymptomatic calcification

    Junki Mizumoto, MD
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2021, 88 (4) 204-205;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20184

    • An 88-year-old man developed fever, headache, and posterior neck pain resistant to initial therapy.

  • Recognizing a retirement, and a calcium deposition syndrome

    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2021, 88 (4) 197-198;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88b.04021

    • Personnel changes at CCJM, and underrecognition of calcium deposition in the cervical spine.

  • Puffy hand syndrome

    Soumya Chatterjee, MD, MS, FRCP
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2021, 88 (4) 210-212;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20131

    • A 37-year-old man visited the rheumatology clinic for evaluation of swelling of his fingers and hands.

  • Tumoral calcinosis

    Hiroyuki Yano, MD and Mitsuyo Kinjo, MD, MPH
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2021, 88 (4) 208-209;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20084

    • A 47-year-old woman on peritoneal dialysis presented with dyspnea and hip pain.

  • Awareness can prompt the search for clinical zebras

    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2021, 88 (3) 133-134;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88b.03021

    • When do we look hard for uncommon causes of common symptoms?

  • A 21-year-old woman with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and persistent lightheadedness

    Raed Qarajeh, MD, Laith A. Derbas, MD, Mouin Abdallah, MD, MSc and Faraz Kureshi, MD, MSc
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2021, 88 (2) 93-97;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.19137

    • She has a long history of lightheadedness upon standing, and it is getting worse.

  • Why we publish The Clinical Picture

    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2021, 88 (2) 69-70;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88b.02021

    • Gout remains very common—and often undertreated.

  • Cutaneous digital papules

    Hiroyuki Yano, MD and Mitsuyo Kinjo, MD, MPH
    • Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2021, 88 (2) 73-74;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20063

    • Tophi in the finger pads call for aggressive urate-lowering therapy.

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