More articles from Review

  • Coronary artery disease in renal transplant recipients
    William E. Braun, MD and Thomas H. Marwick, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 1994, 61 (5) 370-385;

    Screening for coronary artery disease before transplantation can identify high -risk patients and save lives and money.

  • Advances in noninvasive screening for renovascular disease
    Joseph V. Nally, MD, Jeffrey W. Olin, DO and Gary K. Lammert, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 1994, 61 (5) 328-336;

    What are the current indications for the captopril plasma renin activity test, captopril renography, duplex ultrasonography, and magnetic resonance angiography?

  • Hypertension in Hispanic Americans
    José L. Cangiano, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 1994, 61 (5) 345-350;

    The language barrier, poverty, and limited access to health care raise the risk of inadequate diagnosis and control of hypertension in this growing population.

  • Role of cyclosporine in glomerular diseases
    Richard J. Glassock, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 1994, 61 (5) 363-369;

    Cyclosporine shows promise in renal disease, but randomized, controlled trials are needed to better define how and when to use it.

  • Infections and immunizations in organ transplant recipients: a preventive approach
    Robin K. Avery, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 1994, 61 (5) 386-392;

    Early detection, prophylactic or preemptive therapy of specific infections, and collaboration between the infectious disease clinician and the transplant team are fundamental.

  • The search for diagnostic criteria in Alzheimer’s disease: an update
    Richard A. Prayson, MD and Melinda L. Estes, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 1994, 61 (2) 115-122;

    Although much is known of the histopathologic findings in this disease, definitive diagnostic criteria are still lacking.

  • Diagnostic evaluation of the patient with coronary artery disease
    Fredric J. Pashkow, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1994, 61 (1) 43-48;

    Evaluation of patients with possible CAD involves balancing conflicting considerations, such as test sensitivity and accuracy, cost, and access.

  • Management of variceal bleeding in the 1990s
    J. Michael Henderson, MB, CHB, William D. Carey, MD, David P. Vogt, MD, David S. Barnes, MD, Margaret G. Zelch, MD and Cathy Blake, MSN, RN
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 1993, 60 (6) 431-438;

    Therapeutic options now include pharmacologic reduction of portal hypertension, endoscopic obliteration of varices, placement of decompressive shunts, and liver transplantation.

  • Recurrence, remission, and relapse of seizures
    Norman K. So, MB, BChir
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 1993, 60 (6) 439-444;

    Drug treatment after a first seizure reduces the risk of recurrence by about half, but many patients find the adverse effects intolerable.

  • The role of blood viscosity in the development and progression of coronary artery disease
    Richard C. Becker, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 1993, 60 (5) 353-358;

    Accumulating evidence suggests that increased blood viscosity is an independent risk factor for atherosclerotic heart disease and its complications.

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