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  • Commentary
    Emmanuel L. Bravo, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 1994, 61 (3) 205;
  • The clinical usefulness of urinalysis
    Phillip M. Hall, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 1994, 61 (3) 177-178;

    Two challenging cases to test your diagnostic acumen.

  • Chemotherapy-induced Raynaud's phenomenon
    Eugenia Toumbis-Ioannou, MD and Philip R. Cohen, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 1994, 61 (3) 195-199;

    Cure of malignancy is most important, but detecting delayed toxic effects of antineoplastic therapy deserves close attention, as well.

  • Diagnosing infective endocarditis
    David L. Longworth, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 1994, 61 (3) 172-173;

    The diagnosis has been based on the presence of fever, a new heart murmur, peripheral stigmata, and sustained bacteremia with a typical microorganism—all of which are not invariably present. New criteria offer greater diagnostic accuracy.

  • Echocardiographically guided removal of an intracardiac foreign body
    Vicente E. Font, MD, Carl C. Gill, MD and David E. Lammermeier, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 1994, 61 (3) 228-231;
  • Azathioprine vs cyclosporine in recipients of HLA-identical renal allografts
    Inderbir S. Gill, MD, Ernest E. Hodge, MD, Andrew C. Novick, MD, Stevan B. Streem, MD, William E. Braun, MD and Lata Paranandi, MSHP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 1994, 61 (3) 206-210;

    These two agents produce equally satisfactory outcomes in this immunologically favored group. The need for continued steroid therapy in these patients requires further study.

  • Clinical practice guidelines for HIV infection: progress towards making AIDS a primary care disease
    Johanna Goldfarb, MD and David L. Longworth, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 1994, 61 (3) 238-239;

    An appraisal of the guidelines released in January by the Agency for Health Care Policy and US Public Health Service.

  • Correction
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 1994, 61 (3) 239;
  • Assessing depression in medical patients
    George E. Tesar, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 1994, 61 (3) 174-175;

    Suicidal ideation is an intensely personal matter, and many patients may be alarmed by questions about it. A less threatening approach is described.

  • An unusual ocular manifestation of discoid lupus erythematosus
    Robert E. Foster, MD, Careen Y. Lowder, MD, David M. Meisler, MD, Rafael Valenzuela, MD, James T. McMahon, PhD and Charles Camisa, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 1994, 61 (3) 232-237;

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