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  • Optimizing outcomes in pregnant women with epilepsy
    Lara E. Jeha, MD and Harold H. Morris, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2005, 72 (10) 938-945;

    Risks can be minimized with preconception planning, careful obstetric care, and close postpartum follow-up.

  • Update in thrombosis: Answers to perplexing questions
    Daniel G. Federman, MD, Gina R. Brescia, MD, John P. Moriarty, MD, Sally G. Haskell, MD, Raj Krishnamurthy, MD and Robert S. Kirsner, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2005, 72 (10) 907-915;

    How long should patients receive warfarin? Is less-intense therapy as effective as standard therapy? When is the risk of recurrence highest? Do mutations increase the risk of recurrence?

  • Pleural effusions: Evaluation and management
    José C. Yataco, MD and Raed A. Dweik, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2005, 72 (10) 854-872;

    A rational diagnostic workup will reveal the cause in most cases.

  • Depression in older patients with neurologic illness
    Alan Carson, MBChB, MPhil, MD and Richard Margolin, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2005, 72 (10 suppl 3) S52-S64;
  • Fever in a returned traveler
    Emil P. Lesho, DO, Susan George, MD and Glenn Wortmann, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2005, 72 (10) 921-927;

    Six weeks after returning from Manaus, Brazil, he has recurring symptoms of fever, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, and malaise. What is the likely diagnosis?

  • Internists and the older patient with neurologic illness
    Robert M. Palmer, MD, MPH and Richard J. Lederman, MD, PHD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2005, 72 (10 suppl 3) S2;
  • Managing abdominal aortic aneurysms Treat the aneurysm <em>and</em> the risk factors
    Managing abdominal aortic aneurysms Treat the aneurysm and the risk factors
    Amjad AlMahameed, MD, Ahmed Abdel Latif, MD and Linda M. Graham, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2005, 72 (10) 877-888;

    Abdominal aortic aneurysms are not only a danger in themselves, they also signify underlying vascular disease.

  • Preventing ischemic stroke in the older adult
    Geoffrey S.F. Ling, MD, PhD and Shari M. Ling, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2005, 72 (10 suppl 3) S14-S25;
  • Sleep apnea is linked to heart failure, but does treatment improve outcome?
    Laura Wexler, MD and Shahrokh Javaheri, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2005, 72 (10) 929-936;

    Heart failure is a risk factor for sleep apnea, which in turn may adversely affect cardiovascular function.

  • The art of managing dementia in the elderly
    Adam Rosenblatt, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2005, 72 (10 suppl 3) S3-S13;

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