Nicole Cornish, Tara Coles, M Jennifer Cheng, Claudia Ruiz Sotomayor, Aaron Wolfgang, Christopher Spevak
{"title":"Psychedelics, spirituality, and existential distress in patients at the end of life.","authors":"Nicole Cornish, Tara Coles, M Jennifer Cheng, Claudia Ruiz Sotomayor, Aaron Wolfgang, Christopher Spevak","doi":"10.3949/ccjm.92a.24100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.24100","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychedelic-assisted therapy clinical trials conducted over the past decade have prompted increased interest in the use of psychedelics to treat nonphysical suffering, which can include significant spiritual and existential distress at the end of life. The authors explore the role of psychedelics in helping to address patients' spiritual and existential suffering from a medical, ethical, and legal perspective, with the aim of stimulating discussion and research on this timely and clinically promising topic.</p>","PeriodicalId":10245,"journal":{"name":"Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine","volume":"92 4","pages":"248-254"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143763121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prolonged venous filling time and dependent rubor in a patient with peripheral artery disease.","authors":"Scott L Hagan, Jeffrey W Redinger","doi":"10.3949/ccjm.92a.24056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.24056","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10245,"journal":{"name":"Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine","volume":"92 4","pages":"205-206"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143763108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subclinical hypothyroidism: What's in a name?","authors":"Jennifer S Mammen","doi":"10.3949/ccjm.92a.25028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.25028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10245,"journal":{"name":"Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine","volume":"92 4","pages":"233-235"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143763135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Should glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists be withheld during the preoperative period?","authors":"Sneha Mishra, Patress A Persons, Sophie Bersoux","doi":"10.3949/ccjm.92a.24110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.24110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10245,"journal":{"name":"Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine","volume":"92 4","pages":"209-211"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143763129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2024 ACC/AHA guideline on perioperative cardiovascular management before noncardiac surgery: What's new?","authors":"Steven L Cohn","doi":"10.3949/ccjm.92a.24125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.24125","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In September 2024, the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association updated their 2014 guidelines on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and management of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. This comprehensive document reinforces many previous recommendations and provides new evidence and expert opinion that is useful to the perioperative team, including information on risk assessment of ischemic heart disease and associated medical conditions, perioperative medications, cardiac devices, anesthesia, and monitoring. This overview summarizes the major concepts and changes in the new guidelines.</p>","PeriodicalId":10245,"journal":{"name":"Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine","volume":"92 4","pages":"213-219"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143763100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Risheng Xu, Nicola Abate, Nalini Ram, Kristina Little
{"title":"Most elderly patients with subclinical hypothyroidism do not need to be treated.","authors":"Risheng Xu, Nicola Abate, Nalini Ram, Kristina Little","doi":"10.3949/ccjm.92a.24098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.24098","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Whether subclinical hypothyroidism should be treated in elderly patients (≥ 65 years) is controversial. The authors argue for a personalized, wait-and-see approach rather than universal treatment, pointing out that randomized clinical trials have not shown that levothyroxine treatment makes any difference in terms of hard clinical end points, quality of life, or hypothyroid symptom relief in elderly patients with this condition.</p>","PeriodicalId":10245,"journal":{"name":"Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine","volume":"92 4","pages":"221-231"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143763106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychedelics in the medical toolbox?","authors":"Brian F Mandell","doi":"10.3949/ccjm.92b.04025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92b.04025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10245,"journal":{"name":"Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine","volume":"92 4","pages":"200-201"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143763111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nociplastic pain: A practical guide to chronic pain management in the primary care setting.","authors":"Rupak Thapa, Dennis Ang","doi":"10.3949/ccjm.92a.24101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.24101","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Management of chronic pain is one of the most challenging medical issues in primary care. Effective pain management requires an understanding of nociplastic pain, a condition characterized by amplification of pain transmission and pain perception. Unlike nociceptive and neuropathic pain, nociplastic pain does not involve visible tissue injury or damage, which makes it difficult to understand and manage. This review discusses practical ways for primary care clinicians to identify and manage nociplastic pain at the point of care.</p>","PeriodicalId":10245,"journal":{"name":"Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine","volume":"92 4","pages":"236-247"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143763107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sarcoidosis with diffuse purplish erythematous plaques on the hands.","authors":"Akihiro Orita, Mitsuhito Ota","doi":"10.3949/ccjm.92a.24022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.24022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10245,"journal":{"name":"Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine","volume":"92 3","pages":"145-146"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143540404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All sulfa drugs are not created equal.","authors":"Brian F Mandell","doi":"10.3949/ccjm.92b.03025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92b.03025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10245,"journal":{"name":"Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine","volume":"92 3","pages":"136-137"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143540392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}