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  • Women’s health 2019: Osteoporosis, breast cancer, contraception, and hormone therapy
    Anna Camille Moreno, DO, NCMP, Sabrina Kaur Sahni, MD, NCMP, Taryn L. Smith, MD and Pelin Batur, MD, FACP, NCMP, CCD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2019, 86 (6) 400-406; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18130

    Vignettes with practical advice based on current literature.

  • A sleeping beast: Obstructive sleep apnea and stroke
    Zachary McKee, BS and Dennis H. Auckley, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2019, 86 (6) 407-415; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18033

    Up to two-thirds of patients who have had a stroke have obstructive sleep apnea afterward, with worse outcomes.

  • Anti-Xa assays: What is their role today in antithrombotic therapy?
    Erika Hutt Centeno, MD, Michael Militello, PharmD, RPH, BCPS and Marcelo P. Gomes, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2019, 86 (6) 417-425; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18029

    Should clinicians abandon the aPTT for monitoring heparin therapy in favor of anti-Xa assays?

  • Infection or not infection, that is the question—Is procalcitonin the answer?
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2019, 86 (5) 297-298; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86b.05019

    What is different about procalcitonin that allows it to succeed as a biomarker where CRP and the ESR have failed?

  • In reply: Human papillomavirus March 2019
    Salina Zhang, BS and Pelin Batur, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2019, 86 (5) 300-301; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86c.05002
  • Human papillomavirus March 2019
    Robert Lichtenberg, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2019, 86 (5) 300; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86c.05001

    Readers comment on aleukemic leukemia cutis (February 2019) and on human papillomavirus vaccination (March 2019).

  • In reply: Aleukemic leukemia cutis February 2019
    Tuyet Abraham, MD, Peter Morawiecki, MD, Amy Flischel, MD and Bharata Agrawal, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2019, 86 (5) 302; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86c.05004
  • Aleukemic leukemia cutis February 2019
    Etan Marks, DO
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2019, 86 (5) 302; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86c.05003

    Readers comment on aleukemic leukemia cutis (February 2019) and on human papillomavirus vaccination (March 2019).

  • Dabigatran-induced esophagitis
    Yusaku Kajihara, MD, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2019, 86 (5) 303; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18117

    The tablets contain tartaric acid, and if they get stuck in the esophagus, the acid leaching out can damage the mucosa.

  • Can procalcitonin guide decisions about antibiotic management?
    Robert J. Fakheri, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2019, 86 (5) 307-311; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.86a.18074

    Yes, but clinical judgment must still be exercised.

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