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  • Chronic lymphocytic leukemia: A brief review
    John C. Krauss, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1998, 65 (1) 42-48;

    CLL, the most common type of leukemia, is often discovered incidentally when a routine complete blood count is performed. This paper reviews the pathology, diagnosis, and treatment of CLL.

  • In response: A proper role for organized medicine (May 1997) Editorial
    John D. Clough, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1998, 65 (1) 50;
  • Protoivpump inhibitors for gastric acid-related disease
    Thomas G. Franko, MS and Joel E. Richter, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1998, 65 (1) 27-34;

    Proton-pump inhibitors are the most effective drugs for suppressing gastric acid production. Concerns over potential ill effects of hypergastrinemia have proved unfounded.

  • Dear Colleague
    John D. Clough, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1998, 65 (1) 8;
  • A 52-year-old woman with skin lesions and liver function abnormalities
    Hamed Daw, MD and J. Harry Isaacson, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 1997, 64 (10) 520-522;

    The patient presents to her doctor with a pruritic rash of 6 weeks’ duration. What is the diagnosis and treatment?

  • The uncertain role of immunosuppressive agents in Sjögren’s syndrome
    Garifallia Linardaki, MD and H.M. Moutsopoulos, MD, FRCP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 1997, 64 (10) 523-526;

    Although Sjögren’s syndrome is an autoimmune disorder, immunosuppressive agents have yielded disappointing results in clinical trials.

  • Medical McCarthyism: Medicare, teaching hospitals, and charges of health care fraud
    John D. Clough, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 1997, 64 (10) 517-519;

    Real fraud cannot be tolerated, but spurious fraud charges are equally intolerable.

  • Dear Colleague
    John D. Clough, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 1997, 64 (10) 508;
  • Homocysteine: Update on a new risk factor
    Raj S. Ballal, MD, Donald W. Jacobsen, PHD and Killian Robinson, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 1997, 64 (10) 543-549;

    A high fasting plasma homocysteine level is an independent risk factor for atherosclerosis and venous thrombosis.

  • Index to Volume 64
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 1997, 64 (10) 555-558;

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