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Table of Contents

July 01, 2012; Volume 79,Issue 7

From the Editor

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    Kidneys have a lot of nerve
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2012, 79 (7) 451; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79b.12007

    Renal denervation shows promise. But hypertension is a heterogeneous condition, and the patient’s underlying pathophysiology may dictate the response to this physiologically based therapy.

Review

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    POLST: An improvement over traditional advance directives
    Patricia A. Bomba, MD, FACP, Marian Kemp, RN and Judith S. Black, MD, MHA
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2012, 79 (7) 457-464; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.11098

    Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) is a process that translates a patient’s goals for care at the end of life into medical orders.

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    Dengue: A reemerging concern for travelers
    Noreen A. Hynes, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2012, 79 (7) 474-482; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.11048

    Dengue, a neglected tropical disease that is reemerging around the world, became a nationally notifiable disease in the United States in 2009.

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    Aortic stenosis: Who should undergo surgery, transcatheter valve replacement?
    Fadi Sawaya, MD, James Stewart, MD and Vasilis Babaliaros, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2012, 79 (7) 487-497; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.11043

    For some patients with aortic stenosis, the choice of management is simple; for others it is less so.

  • Renal denervation to treat resistant hypertension: Guarded optimism
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    Renal denervation to treat resistant hypertension: Guarded optimism
    George Thomas, MD, Mehdi H. Shishehbor, DO, MPH, Emmanuel L. Bravo, MD and Joseph V. Nally, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2012, 79 (7) 501-510; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.12040

    Can a percutaneous catheter-based procedure cure resistant hypertension? The limited data available so far look good.

The Clinical Picture

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    A farmer with chest pain and lung nodules
    Fernando Jaén Águila, MD, PhD, José Antonio Vargas-Hitos, MD, PhD, David Esteva Fernández, MD and Juan Jiménez Alonso, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2012, 79 (7) 465-467; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.11077

    The patient, age 50, was treated 25 years ago for brucellosis. But he is also a 30-pack-year smoker. What does he have?

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    Patchy hair loss on the scalp
    Matthew F. Helm, Joseph Housel, MD and Ilene Rothman, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2012, 79 (7) 472-473; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.11129

    A 12-year-old girl has a large, irregular area of hair loss. What is going on?

Editorial

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    Challenges in the management of aortic stenosis
    Amar Krishnaswamy, MD and Brian P. Griffin, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2012, 79 (7) 483-486; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.12059

    Unfortunately, physicians who manage aortic stenosis do not encounter straightforward classic cases very often.

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    The promise of renal denervation
    Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH and George L. Bakris, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2012, 79 (7) 498-500; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.12051

    Only with further carefully conducted randomized trials of renal denervation will its full promise be realized.

Departments

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    Correction
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2012, 79 (7) 464; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.c7464
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