Women's Health

  • Risk-based guidelines: Redefining management of abnormal cervical cancer screening results
    Amy Wiser, MD, FAAFP, Jeffrey D. Quinlan, MD, FAAFP and Pelin Batur, MD, FACP, NCMP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2021, 88 (10) 556-560; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20193

    A shift from results-based to risk-based management, based on the patient’s immediate and 5-year risks of grade 3 or higher cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.

  • Teriparatide: Label changes and identifying patients for long-term use
    Paul D. Miller, MD, HDSc (HON), E. Michael Lewiecki, MD, Kelly Krohn, MD and Elliott Schwartz, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2021, 88 (9) 489-493; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.21011

    The changes leave clinicians with the challenge of identifying appropriate patients.

  • How do you effectively evaluate the elderly for alcohol use disorder?
    Moronkeji Fagbemi, MD, FASAM
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2021, 88 (8) 434-439; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20123

    A brief review of clues to an underrecognized and underdiagnosed problem with physical as well as emotional and social consequences.

  • Promoting physical activity in older women to maximize health
    CME article
    Augustine Chavez, MD, Robert Scales, PhD and Juliana M. Kling, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2021, 88 (7) 405-415; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20170

    The optimal type, intensity, and level required to achieve specific health outcomes depend on the disease the patient and clinician are trying to prevent or manage.

  • Pregnancy in a woman with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries
    Pregnancy in a woman with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries
    Sarah A. Goldstein, MD, Lisa Sorenson, CNP, Jeffrey B. Chapa, MD and Richard A. Krasuski, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2021, 88 (4) 228-236; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20136

    She presents with nausea and emesis 7 weeks after her last menstrual period.

  • Median arcuate ligament syndrome: Incidental finding or real problem?
    Bayarmaa Mandzhieva, MD, Hammad Zafar, MD, Akriti Jain, MD and Manoucher Manoucheri, MD, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2021, 88 (3) 140-142; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20052

    A woman was admitted with pain in the epigastrium and right upper quadrant that radiated to the back, as well as nausea and dry heaves.

  • Median arcuate ligament syndrome: A clinical dilemma
    John H. Rodriguez, MD, FACS
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2021, 88 (3) 143-144; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.21001

    Patients with chronic abdominal pain can benefit from a multidisciplinary evaluation.

  • Not all wheezing is COPD
    Vipul Patel, MD and Nikhil Madan, MD, FCCP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2021, 88 (3) 147-149; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20101

    A missed diagnosis led to inappropriate referral for lung transplant.

  • All that wheezes…
    Aparna Bhat, MD and Rendell W. Ashton, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2021, 88 (3) 150-153; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20198

    All that wheezes is not asthma, but it is airway obstruction of one kind or another.

  • Vaccination in pregnancy: A call to all providers for help
    Jonathan D. Emery, MD and Daniel Moussa, BS
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2021, 88 (3) 157-162; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20111

    Vaccination in pregnancy is a public health priority that is often neglected.

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