Cardiology

  • Cardiopulmonary exercise testing: A contemporary and versatile clinical tool
    Cardiopulmonary exercise testing: A contemporary and versatile clinical tool
    Kenneth Leclerc, MD, FACC, FACSM
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2017, 84 (2) 161-168; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15013

    It has a class I recommendation for evaluating dyspnea of uncertain cause and in candidates for heart transplant.

  • Porcelain heart in a uremic patient
    Hsiu-Chien Yang, MD, Chang-Han Lo, MD, Chun-Chi Chen, MD and Chia-Chao Wu, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2017, 84 (3) 184-185; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15177

    Constrictive pericarditis due to secondary hyperparathyroidism occurs in up to 4% of patients with end-stage renal disease.

  • Cardiopulmonary exercise testing February 2017
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2017, 84 (3) 214;

    Errors occurred in Leclerc K. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing: A contemporary and versatile clinical tool Cleve Clin J Med 2017; 84:161–168.

  • Management of coronary chronic total occlusion
    Jaikirshan Khatri, MD, Mouin Abdallah, MD and Stephen Ellis, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2017, 84 (12 suppl 3) 27-38; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84.s3.03
  • Cardiogenic shock: From ECMO to Impella and beyond
    Cardiogenic shock: From ECMO to Impella and beyond
    Mehdi H. Shishehbor, DO, MPH, PhD, Nader Moazami, MD, Michael Z.-Y. Tong, MD, MBP, Shinya Unai, MD, W. H. Wilson Tang, MD and Edward G. Soltesz, Md, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2017, 84 (4) 287-295; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84gr.17002

    Several devices can serve as a bridge to recovery, transplant, or a long-term device.

  • A broken pacemaker lead in a 69-year-old woman
    Belal Kaseer, MD, Mhd Yassin Al Mouslmani, MD, David S. Hirsh, MD and Muhammad Hammadah, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2017, 84 (5) 346-347; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16075

    The patient presented with fatigue, cough, light-headedness, and a heart rate of 30 beats per minute.

  • Fall risk and anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation in the elderly: A delicate balance
    Tracy Hagerty, MD and Michael W. Rich, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2017, 84 (1) 35-40; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16016

    The decision-making process is complex and should be shared with the patient and the patient’s family and caregivers.

  • Update on the management of venous thromboembolism
    John R. Bartholomew, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2017, 84 (12 suppl 3) 39-46; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84.s3.04
  • Whether to anticoagulate: Toward a more reasoned approach
    Theodore T. Suh, MD, PhD, MHS
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2017, 84 (1) 41-42; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16086

    The patient’s life expectancy and personal preferences are important and affect the decision.

  • A 68-year-old man with a blue toe
    Kiyoshi Shikino, MD, PhD, Takahiro Ota, MD, Takanori Uehara, MD, PhD and Masatomi Ikusaka, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2017, 84 (6) 436-437; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16059

    The patient had undergone coronary artery bypass grafting, which caused cholesterol crystal embolism.

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