Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine

  • Labels matter: Challenging conversations or challenging people?
    Adrienne Boissy, MD, MA
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2017, 84 (7) 543-544; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16128

    Caring for patients is a complex, intricate, intimate privilege. To characterize it otherwise is to not fully understand it.

  • Optimizing diagnostic testing for venous thromboembolism
    Patrick Rendon, MD, Taylor Goot, MD, Allison E. Burnett, PharmD, PhC, CACP, Michael B. Streiff, MD and Jessica Zimmerberg-Helms, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2017, 84 (7) 545-554; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16049

    A thoughtful approach to diagnosing venous thromboembolism and screening for thrombophilic disorders.

  • Tickborne diseases other than Lyme in the United States
    Christa Eickhoff, MD and Jason Blaylock, MD, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2017, 84 (7) 555-567; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16110

    Consider them in patients with known or potential tick exposure and fever or vague constitutional symptoms.

  • Understanding the bell-ringing of concussion
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2017, 84 (8) 583; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84b.08017

    Back in the day, if we could count the coach’s fingers, we could go back into the game. Now we are more attuned to injury.

  • Breast calcifications mimicking pulmonary nodules
    Moiz Salahuddin, MD, Thomas Reilly, MD and Jorge Mora, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2017, 84 (8) 584-585; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16048

    Radiography suggested the lesions were in the lungs, but CT and mammography said otherwise.

  • Pseudo-Wellens syndrome after heavy marijuana use
    Michael Lawrenz Ferreras Co, MD, Anshuman Das, MD and Tochukwu Okwuosa, DO
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2017, 84 (8) 590-591; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16133

    Acute marijuana intoxication is associated with reversible changes in the P and T waves and ST segments.

  • A lump on the hip
    Morteza Khodaee, MD, MPH, Seth Mathern, MD, Wendy S. Madigosky, MD, MSPH and Jonathan T. Bravman, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2017, 84 (8) 594-596; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16065

    The patient had fallen on his hip while playing basketball about 2 weeks earlier.

  • Is spirometry necessary to diagnose and control asthma?
    Mani Latifi, MD and Sumita Khatri, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2017, 84 (8) 597-599; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16078

    Asthma is a clinical diagnosis, but spirometry can improve how we diagnose, assess, and control it.

  • Weight loss, fatigue, and renal failure
    Qiwei Paulson, MD, Christopher A. Stearns, MD and Paul Nader, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2017, 84 (8) 601-607; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16053

    A 37-year-old man has gradually lost 100 lb over the past 2 years, with progressive fatigue and malaise.

  • Delirium in hospitalized patients: Risks and benefits of antipsychotics
    Robyn Pauline Thom, MD, Clare Kelleher Mock, MD and Polina Teslyar, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2017, 84 (8) 616-622; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16077

    No drug is approved for delirium, but antipsychotics can be used in certain situations.

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