Index by author
June 01, 2007; Volume 74,Issue 6
Bakhru, Mihir R.
- You have accessA 58-year-old woman with mental status changesMihir R. Bakhru, MD, Ajay Kumar, MD and Ashish Aneja, MDCleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2007, 74 (6) 457-462;
Thirty years ago she underwent gastric bypass surgery for obesity. Now she presents with mental status changes, a bicarbonate level of 16 mmol/L, and an anion gap of 15. What is the most likely cause of her acidosis?
Bott-silverman, Corinne
- You have accessHeart failure in women is different than in men; should treatment be different?Ure Mezu, MD, Corinne Bott-Silverman, MD and Eileen Hsich, MDCleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2007, 74 (6) 423-435;
Studies of heart failure treatment have included mostly men, and the results have been generalized to women even though there are pharmacologic and pathophysiologic differences between the sexes.
Bybel, Bohdan
- You have accessRadiologic diagnosis and management of acute lower gastrointestinal bleedingSiddharth A. Padia, MD, Bohdan Bybel, MD and James S. Newman, MD, PhDCleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2007, 74 (6) 417-420;
When colonoscopy gives indeterminate results or cannot be performed, either radionuclide imaging or angiography is indicated.