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  • Liposuction: Concepts, safety, and techniques in body-contouring surgery
    Shannon Wu, BA, Demetrius M. Coombs, MD and Raffi Gurunian, MD,PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2020, 87 (6) 367-375; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19097

    In addition to its purely aesthetic uses, liposuction is an important adjunct in reconstructive surgery.

  • COVID-19 Curbside Consults at www.CCJM.org
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2020, 87 (5) 255-256; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87b.05020

    These are tough times. This is a wicked disease. But healthcare providers are stepping up.

  • Can multiple ARDS patients be ventilated with a single ventilator?
    Umur Hatipoğlu, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2020, 87 (5) 259-261; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.20043

    With more patients than machines, multiplex ventilation is a reasonable last resort to prevent certain death.

  • What mask should I wear to protect against transmissible acute respiratory infections?
    Amir Laktineh, MD, Asil Daoud, MD, Sorabh Dhar, MD, Lisa Engles and Ayman O. Soubani, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2020, 87 (5) 262-265; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19057

    Clinical trials have not shown a direct advantage for N95 respirators vs surgical masks for many acute respiratory infections.

  • ‘I want a doctor who looks like me’: The dilemma of race-based requests
    Kenneth G. Poole, MD, MBA, CPE, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2020, 87 (5) 268-270; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19110

    Ideally, the provider’s race shouldn’t matter, but what if it does?

  • Page kidney after a renal biopsy
    Hiroyuki Teruya, MD, Hiroyuki Yano, MD, Hitoshi Miyasato, MD and Mitsuyo Kinjo, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2020, 87 (5) 271-272; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19130

    A patient presents with flank pain and worsening hypertension and renal function 3 weeks after percutaneous renal biopsy.

  • Perinatal depression: A review
    Maureen Sayres Van Niel, MD and Jennifer L. Payne, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2020, 87 (5) 273-277; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19054

    Depression affects 10% to 20% of women during pregnancy or postpartum, but it can be difficult to recognize.

  • Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction with valves: What should the internist know?
    Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction with valves: What should the internist know?
    Khaled Alshabani, MD, Thomas R. Gildea, MD, FCCP, Michael Machuzak, MD, Joseph Cicenia, MD and Umur Hatipoğlu, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2020, 87 (5) 278-287; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19083

    For selected patients with emphysema, 1-way valves reduce hyperinflation and are a palliative option.

  • Cutaneous adverse effects of biologic medications
    Selena R. Pasadyn, BA, Daniel Knabel, MD, Anthony P. Fernandez, MD, PhD and Christine B. Warren, MD, MS
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2020, 87 (5) 288-299; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19119

    These therapies have revolutionized medicine but come with many unique adverse effects.

  • Aspirin for primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular events
    Aldo L. Schenone, MD and A. Michael Lincoff, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2020, 87 (5) 300-311; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.19045

    A more limited role for aspirin as primary prevention in patients at intermediate risk, with diabetes, and the elderly.

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