Tirzepatide-Induced Rapid Weight Loss–Related Thyrotoxicosis
This Teachable Moment describes a 62-year-old man with thyrotoxicosis due to excess levothyroxine exposure during tirzepatide treatment that induced rapid weight loss.
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Postexercise Cardiac Asystole
This case report describes a patient in their 40s with hypertension who exhibited presyncopal symptoms following an exercise test.
Making Sense of the Difference-in-Difference Design
This Guide to Statistics and Methods describes the difference-in-differences study design.
Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorderó – An Essential Medical Treatment
This Clinical Insights describes the process for initiating buprenorphine treatment for patients with opioid use disorder.
Diagnostic Inertia in Identifying Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young
This case report describes a woman in her mid 30s with diabetes who had been treated with insulin therapy, no history of diabetic ketoacidosis, and normal levels of C-peptide.
ST-Segment Elevation in a Woman With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
This case report describes a patient in their mid 70s who had an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and was found to have irregular, narrow atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular rhythm on electrocardiography imaging.
An Unusual ST-Segment Elevation in Unexplained Syncope
This case report describes a patient in their 70s with a lambda wave pattern on electrocardiography.
A Small Wave Missed in Wide Complex Tachycardia
This case report describes a patient in their 60s with intermittent palpitation, weakness, and irregular cardiac rhythm.
A Case for Regularly Obtaining Nutrition History – Food for Thought
This Teachable Moment discusses providing patients with an opportunity to initiate dietary change before prescribing statin therapy for even severely high low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels.
Opioid-Induced Adrenal Insufficiency
This case report describes a woman in her 40s with opioid use disorder receiving methadone who was admitted for extended antibiotic treatment for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and was subsequently diagnosed with opioid-induced adrenal insufficiency.
