Emergency Medicine

  • Bioresorbable stents: The future of interventional cardiology?
    Stephen G. Ellis, MD and Haris Riaz, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11 suppl 2) S18-S23; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83.s2.03
  • ‘Air-raising’: An air-fluid level in the right subphrenic region
    Anupam Gupta, MD and Oleg Epelbaum, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2016, 83 (9) 638-640; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15162

    Plain chest radiography showed dramatic elevation of the right hemidiaphragm with a large subphrenic air-fl uid level.

  • A man with HIV and papules and nodules on the knees
    Ana M. Victoria-Martínez, MD, Laura Cubells-Sánchez, MD, Lorena Martínez-Leborans, MD, José L Sánchez-Carazo, PhD and Víctor Alegre De Miquel, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2016, 83 (9) 641-642; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15128

    Erythema elevatum diutinum may be confused with Sweet syndrome, Kaposi sarcoma, or bacillary angiomatosis.

  • In reply: Wilson disease (February 2016)
    Mohamad A. Hanouneh, MD, Ari Garber, MD, EDD, Anthony S. Tavill, MD, FAASLD, Nizar N. Zein, MD, FAASLD and Ibrahim A. Hanouneh, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2016, 83 (6) 406-407; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83c.06002
  • Wilson disease (February 2016)
    Aibek E. Mirrakhimov, MD, Taha Ayach, MD and Aram Barbaryan, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2016, 83 (6) 406; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83c.06001

    Readers comment on Wilson disease (February 2016).

  • Cognitive bias and diagnostic error (November 2015)
    Morton H. Field, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2016, 83 (6) 407-408; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83c.06003

    Readers comment on cognitive bias and diagnostic error (November 2015).

  • In reply: Cognitive bias and diagnostic error (November 2015)
    Nikhil Mull, MD, James B. Reilly, MD, MS and Jennifer S. Myers, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2016, 83 (6) 408; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83c.06004
  • A guide to managing acute liver failure
    A guide to managing acute liver failure
    Tavankit Singh, MD, Nancy Gupta, MD, Naim Alkhouri, MD, William D. Carey, MD and Ibrahim A. Hanouneh, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2016, 83 (6) 453-462; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15101

    Transfer to intensive care, start specific treatment depending on the cause, and consider transplant.

  • This is not an acute coronary syndrome
    Adam M. May, MD, Korosh Sharain, MD, Jorge Brenes-Salazar, MD and Lawrence J. Sinak, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2016, 83 (5) 335-336; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15060

    Stress cardiomyopathy—broken heart syndrome—typically affects older women exposed to a stressful life event.

  • An 85-year-old woman with respiratory failure and positional hypoxemia
    Alpana Senapati, DO, Hardeep Rai, MD and Abhijit Duggal, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2016, 83 (5) 349-354; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.15079

    Her oxygen saturation was more than 93% when lying down but dropped to less than 85% when she was upright.

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