Women's Health

  • Breast cancer screening: Does tomosynthesis augment mammography?
    Breast cancer screening: Does tomosynthesis augment mammography?
    Traci A. Takahashi, MD, MPH, Christoph I. Lee, MD, MSHS and Kay M. Johnson, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2017, 84 (7) 522-527; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16057

    This technology may reduce recall rates and increase cancer detection rates, but outcome studies are needed.

  • Breast calcifications mimicking pulmonary nodules
    Moiz Salahuddin, MD, Thomas Reilly, MD and Jorge Mora, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2017, 84 (8) 584-585; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16048

    Radiography suggested the lesions were in the lungs, but CT and mammography said otherwise.

  • Combined hormonal contraceptives and migraine: An update on the evidence
    Anne H. Calhoun, MD, FAHS and Pelin Batur, MD, FACP, NCMP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2017, 84 (8) 631-638; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16033

    These contraceptives are contraindicated in women who have migraine with aura, but benefit vs risk is debatable.

  • Reproductive planning for women after solid-organ transplant
    Mina Al-Badri, MBCHB, Juliana M. Kling, MD, MPH and Suneela Vegunta, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2017, 84 (9) 719-728; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16116

    Pregnancy can succeed, but patients must wait at least a year. Until then, meticulous contraception is mandatory.

  • Minocycline-induced hyperpigmentation
    Mahmoud Abdelghany, MD and Alan J. Kivitz, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2016, 83 (12) 876-877; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.16058

    The patient presented with extensive bluish skin discoloration that had started 1 year earlier as a small area and then spread.

  • Women’s health 2016: An update for internists
    Pelin Batur, MD, NCMP, CCD, Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, MD, MS, Judith M. E. Walsh, MD, MPH and Kay M. Johnson, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2016, 83 (12) 905-913; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.16098

    Important studies of urinary tract infections, bisphosphonates, ovarian cancer screening, and contraception.

  • Menopausal hormone therapy (August 2016)
    Holly L. Thacker, MD, FACP, CCD, NCMP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11) 778; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83c.11001

    A reader comments on menopausal hormone therapy (August 2016).

  • In reply: Menopausal hormone therapy (August 2016)
    Laura Dorr Lipold, MD, Pelin Batur, MD, NCMP, CCD and Risa Kagan, MD, FACOG, CCD, NCMP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11) 778-785; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83c.11002
  • Influenza: Still more important than Zika virus in 2016–2017
    Sherif Beniameen Mossad, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FAST
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11) 836-840; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83a.16105

    Despite all the news reports, infl uenza still kills or hospitalizes more people than Zika.

  • Fibromuscular dysplasia: Advances in understanding and management
    Ellen K. Brinza, MS and Heather L. Gornik, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2016, 83 (11 suppl 2) S45-S51; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.83.s2.06

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