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September 01, 2018; Volume 85,Issue 9

  1. Fares, Maan

    1. Coronary artery calcium scoring: Its practicality and clinical utility in primary care
      Coronary artery calcium scoring: Its practicality and clinical utility in primary care
      Parth Parikh, MD, Nishant Shah, MD, Haitham Ahmed, MD, MPH, Paul Schoenhagen, MD and Maan Fares, MD
      Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2018, 85 (9) 707-716; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17097

      It outperforms other risk-stratifi cation tools. Drawbacks include the possibility of unnecessary testing and incidental fi ndings.

  2. Fershko, Adam

    1. Brain abscesses in a 60-year-old man
      Stella Pak, MD, Shawn Marein, DO, Victor Valencia, Damian Valencia, MD, Jessica Uhler, BS and Adam Fershko, MD, FACP
      Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2018, 85 (9) 672-674; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17130

      The lesions were not from compromised immunity, but from septic hematogenous spread of an odontogenic infection.

  3. Funchain, Pauline

    1. How should we diagnose and manage checkpoint inhibitor-associated colitis?
      Freeha Khan, MD, Pauline Funchain, MD, Ana Bennett, MD, Tracy L. Hull, MD and Bo Shen, MD
      Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2018, 85 (9) 679-683; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.18020

      Rule out infection, especially Clostridium difficile, then order colonoscopy or computed tomography.

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