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  • COVID-19 and flu: Dual threat, dual opportunity
    Sherif Beniameen Mossad, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FAST
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2020, 87 (11) 651-655; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.20161

    Measures to combat COVID-19 can minimize the impact of flu, and vice versa.

  • Does my healthy 65-year-old patient still need the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13)?
    Craig D. Nielsen, MD, FACP and Xian Wen Jin, MD, PhD, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2020, 87 (11) 656-658; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.20012

    The short answer is no—but it is not that simple.

  • 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.

  • Convalescent plasma for COVID-19: Promising, not proven
    Simon R. Mucha, MD and NurJehan Quraishy, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2020, 87 (11) 664-670; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.ccc056

    The evidence is suggestive but weak. Trials are ongoing.

  • Using and interpreting electrodiagnostic tests
    Using and interpreting electrodiagnostic tests
    Matthew R. Ginsberg, MD, John A. Morren, MD and Kerry Levin, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2020, 87 (11) 671-682; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19154

    They supplement a neurologic examination in a variety of neuromuscular conditions.

  • 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 effect of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs on vaccine immunogenicity in adults
    Alvin Lee Day, MD, Kevin L. Winthrop, MD, MPH and Jeffrey R. Curtis, MD, MS, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2020, 87 (11) 695-703; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.20056

    Patients can have variable responses to vaccines, depending on the vaccine and the DMARD.

  • A sneaky vascular disease
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2020, 87 (10) 581-582; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87b.10020

    Cholesterol embolization syndrome may provide insights into atherosclerotic disease.

  • 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.

  • Trousseau sign and syndrome: Erroneous terms
    Steven Yale, MD, MACP, Halil Tekiner, PhD, Joseph Mazza, MD and Eileen Scott Yale, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2020, 87 (10) 585; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87c.10002

    Trousseau never described a constellation of symptoms in this disease.

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