Neurology

  • Narcolepsy: Diagnosis and management
    Erin C. Golden, MD and Melissa C. Lipford, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2018, 85 (12) 959-969; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17086

    Treatments can offer enhanced quality of life.

  • Small fibers, large impact
    Brian f. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2018, 85 (10) 731-732; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85b.10018

    The wide interest in small fi ber neuropathy may reflect our current apparent epidemic of chronic pain.

  • Postsurgical hypoparathyroidism is not primary hypoparathyroidism (March 2018)
    Malvinder S. Parmar, MB, MS, FRCPC, FACP, FASN
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2018, 85 (10) 735-736; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85c.10002

    Readers comment on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (May 2018) and on hypoparathyroidism (March 2018).

  • In reply: Postsurgical hypoparathyroidism is not primary hypoparathyroidism (March 2018)
    Sohab S. Radwan, MD, Khair M. Hamo, MD and Ayman A. Zayed, MD, MSc, FACE, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2018, 85 (10) 736-737; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85c.10003
  • When stroke runs in the family
    Nellowe Candelario, MD and Kevin Bryan Lo, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2018, 85 (10) 743-744; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.18055

    CADASIL—cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy—is due to a mutation in NOTCH3.

  • Office approach to small fiber neuropathy
    Jinny O. Tavee, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2018, 85 (10) 801-812; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17124

    A practical approach for identifying an underlying cause is to fi rst screen for common ones.

  • 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.

  • Osmotic demyelination syndrome due to hyperosmolar hyperglycemia
    Takanobu Hirosawa, MD and Taro Shimizu, MD, MPH, MBA
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2018, 85 (7) 511-513; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17020

    Rapid correction of chronic hyponatremia can trigger this rare but life-threatening disorder.

  • What inpatient treatments do we have for acute intractable migraine?
    Ashhar S. Ali, DO and Mark Stillman, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2018, 85 (7) 514-516; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85a.17049

    Options: volume repletion, antiemetics, antiepileptics, NSAIDs, corticosteroids, and magnesium sulfate. Avoid opioids.

  • ‘Non-criteria’ antiphospholipid antibodies and thrombosis (February 2018)
    Satish Maharaj, MBBS, Simone Chang, MBBS and Marwan Shaikh, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2018, 85 (6) 431-432; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.85c.06001

    Readers comment on antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (February 2018).

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