Table of Contents
July 01, 2012; Volume 79, Issue 7-
From the Editor
-
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
-
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.
-
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.
-
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
George Thomas, MD, Mehdi H. Shishehbor, DO, MPH, Emmanuel L. Bravo, MD and Joseph V. Nally Jr, 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
-
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?
-
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
-
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.
-
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
-
Correction
- Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2012, 79 (7) 464;
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.79a.c7464
-
