Nephrology

  • In Reply: Acid-base disturbances January 2017
    Gregory W. Rutecki, MD and Shylaja Mani, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2017, 84 (3) 181; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84c.03004

    Readers comment on caring for international patients (November 2016) and on acid-base disorders (January 2017).

  • Acid-base disturbances January 2017
    Michael Emmett, MD, MACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2017, 84 (3) 181; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84c.03003

    Readers comment on caring for international patients (November 2016) and on acid-base disorders (January 2017).

  • 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.

  • Altered mental status and an acid-base disturbance January 2017
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2017, 84 (3) 214;

    Errors occurred in: Mani S, Rutecki GW. A patient with altered mental status and an acid-base disturbance. Cleve Clin J Med 2017; 84:27–34.

  • A patient with altered mental status and an acid-base disturbance
    Shylaja Mani, MD and Gregory W. Rutecki, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2017, 84 (1) 27-34; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16042

    Acid-base disorders can be diagnosed and characterized using a systematic, fi ve-step approach.

  • 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.

  • Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease and the heart and brain
    Vinod Krishnappa, MBBS, Poornima Vinod, MD, Divya Deverakonda and Rupesh Raina, MD, FAAP, FACP, FASN, FNKF
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2017, 84 (6) 471-481; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16107

    Early-onset hypertension is common. Other complications include heart disease and intracranial aneurysm.

  • Benign prostatic hyperplasia: Evaluation and medical management in primary care
    Benign prostatic hyperplasia: Evaluation and medical management in primary care
    Raman Unnikrishnan, MD, Nima Almassi, MD and Khaled Fareed, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2017, 84 (1) 53-64; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16008

    Effective medical therapy is available but underutilized in the primary care setting.

  • Weight loss, fatigue, and renal failure
    Qiwei Paulson, MD, Christopher A. Stearns, MD and Paul Nader, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2017, 84 (8) 601-607; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16053

    A 37-year-old man has gradually lost 100 lb over the past 2 years, with progressive fatigue and malaise.

  • Metastatic pulmonary calcification and end-stage renal disease
    James M. Walter, MD, Marion Stanley, MD and Benjamin D. Singer, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2017, 84 (9) 668-669; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16132

    CT may show diffusely calcified nodules, high-attenuation areas of consolidation, or fluffy ground-glass nodules.

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