Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
Diagnostic value of the physical examination in patients with dyspneaHow accurate are the signs of pneumonia, pleural effusion, COPD, and congestive heart failure?
- Pharmacotherapy for obesity: What you need to know
Weight-loss drugs are not magic pills, but they can help when used along with diet, exercise, and other lifestyle changes.
- It’s time to consider pharmacotherapy for obesity
Consider using chronic weight-loss medications as adjunctive therapy if lifestyle and behavioral strategies are ineffective.
- Hiding in clear sight: Complications of immunosuppressive therapies
Immunosuppressive drugs can mask the signs of deep infection and thus delay its diagnosis.
- Phlegmasia cerulea dolens from radiation-induced venous stenosis
The patient had received pelvic radiation 10 years earlier for prostate cancer.
- Abdominal pain under immunosuppressive conditions
A cancer patient receiving corticosteroids for a brain metastasis developed emphysematous cystitis and psoas muscle abscess.