Latest Articles

  • The Telelab personal blood pressure transmitter: accurate and reliable home monitoring for hypertensive patients
    Donald G. Vidt, MD, Kennith Bolen, Ray W. Gifford, MD and Sharon Vanderbrug Medendorp
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1991, 58 (1) 28-32;

    A home blood pressure recording device that can transmit data by phone is accurate and convenient.

  • Hypertension and the adrenergic system
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1991, 58 (1) 76;

    The increasing role of adrenergic drugs may be related to the possibility that adrenergic system abnormalities contribute to the development of primary hypertension.

  • Risk factors for in-hospital mortality associated with coronary angioplasty
    Conrad Simpfendorfer, MD, Khosrow Dorosti, MD, Irving Franco, MD, Jay Hollman, MD and Patrick Whitlow, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1991, 58 (1) 25-27;

    Elderly women with extensive coronary disease were at higher risk of mortality than other patient groups.

  • The role of adrenergic drugs in antihypertensive therapy
    Harold D. Itskovitz, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1991, 58 (1) 79-93;

    The clinical effects of drugs in the adrenergic class can be predicted by the location of the alpha or beta receptors that the drug activates or inhibits.

  • Virilization secondary to topical testosterone
    Lydia U. Parker, MD and Wilma F. Bergfeld, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1991, 58 (1) 43-46;

    Alternatives to topical testosterone may reduce the risk of androgenic side effects.

  • Dog heartworm causing necrotizing granuloma of the lung
    Jose I. Diaz, MD, Leopoldo H. Ladaga, MD, Maria Cundiff, MD and James Baker, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1991, 58 (1) 39-42;

    A patient was thought to have a neoplastic lesion until tissue examination revealed a nonviable parasite within a pulmonary artery.

  • Prostate examinations are overlooked
    Eric A. Klein, MD and Robert W. Gerlach, MPA
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1991, 58 (1) 51-52;
  • Post-MI Cardiac Remodeling: New Perspectives
    Bernadine P. Healy, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1991, 58 (1) 13-14;

    The challenge of the 1990s for cardiologists is to change the quality of a patient’s MI to preserve myocardial structure.

  • A new intracellular flush solution improves renal transplant preservation
    Peter N. Bretan, MD and Andrew C. Novick, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1991, 58 (1) 54-58;

    A new renal preservation flush solution minimizes the ischemic injury that occurs during hypothermic storage and reperfusion.

  • Isradipine in the treatment of hypertension: a clinical profile
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 1990, 57 (8) 677-684;

    A new calcium channel blocker is safe, well tolerated, and has long-term antihypertensive efficacy regardless of age or race, with no adverse effects on lipids, carbohydrate tolerance, or renal function.

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