Vascular Medicine

  • A 60-year-old man with prostate cancer and embolic strokes
    Neha K. Reddy, MD, MA, Christian Scherer, DO, Samuel Kessel, MD, MBA and Alejandro Moreno, MBBS, MPH, JD, MACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2022, 89 (12) 705-711; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.89a.21079

    Step-by-step evaluation of a patient with stage IV prostate cancer and embolic stroke, but no history of heart valve disease, arrhythmia, or coagulopathy.

  • When should antithrombotic therapy be resumed after gastrointestinal bleeding?
    Dushyant Singh Dahiya, MD, Asim Kichloo, MD, FACP, Rawan Amir, MD and Farah Wani, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2022, 89 (11) 630-633; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.89a.20189

    The timing should be individualized after considering factors related to the bleeding event, thromboembolic risk, and patient comorbidities.

  • Mondor disease of the breast
    Toshiyuki Yamaguchi, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2022, 89 (7) 371-372; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.89a.21097

    A 43-year-old woman had 2 weeks of pain and skin tightness over the right breast. Ultrasonography revealed a noncompressible, dilated, subcutaneous vein without flow.

  • Hampton hump in acute pulmonary embolism
    Sovik De Sirkar, MD, Joshua Newman, MD, Sorcha Allen, MB, BCh, BAO, Ahmed Elkaryoni, MD, Alexandru Marginean, MD and Amir Darki, MD, MSc
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2022, 89 (5) 236-238; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.89a.21058

    A 50-year-old patient presented with worsening dyspnea and cough with bilateral swelling of the lower extremities, with left-side swelling greater than right-side swelling.

  • Lacrimal gland involvement in a patient with sarcoidosis
    Tanmayi Pai, MD, Mohamed S. Muneer, MD, Kafayat Oyemade, Diva R. Salomao, MD, Vivek Gupta, MD and Dana Harris, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2022, 89 (5) 239-240; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.89a.21037

    The differential diagnosis included infection, malignancy, and inflammatory disorders such as immunoglobulin G4-related disease and sarcoidosis.

  • Managing stage 1 hypertension: Consider the risks, stop the progression
    Abel Hooker, MD, Kevin G. Buda, DO and Maarya Pasha, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2022, 89 (5) 244-248; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.89a.21101

    Guidelines on managing patients with stage 1 hypertension and a low 10-year risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

  • Evaluation and management of orthostatic hypotension: Limited data, limitless opportunity
    Aldo J. Peixoto, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2022, 89 (1) 36-45; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.89gr.22001

    Orthostatic hypotension is common and can have serious consequences. The author offers a systematic approach to evaluation and management.

  • Cardiac considerations in liver transplantation
    Cardiac considerations in liver transplantation
    Vikram Sharma, MD, MD(Res), Cerise Kleb, MD, Chirag Sheth, MD, Beni Rai Verma, MD, Vardhmaan Jain, MD, Ruchi Sharma, MD, MS, Parth Parikh, MD, Jacek Cywinski, MD, K. V. Narayanan Menon, MD, FAASLD, Jamak Modaresi Esfeh, MD, Bijan Eghtesad, MD, Cristiano Quintini, MD, Teresa Diago Uso, MD, Michael Z. Y. Tong, MD, Ravi Nair, MD, Ajay Bhargava, MD and Maan Fares, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2022, 89 (1) 46-55; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.89a.21006

    Today’s transplant patients are older and more likely to have cardiac comorbidities, and effects of advanced liver disease on the circulatory system pose challenges in perioperative management.

  • Antiobesity drug therapy
    Taher Modarressi, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2021, 88 (12) 657; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88c.12001
  • Physician resistance to obesity pharmacotherapy
    Vania Modesto-Lowe, MD, Allison Wick, BS and Michael Dang, BS, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2021, 88 (12) 658; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88c.12003

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