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  • A Mimic of Vasculitis
    Jeffrey W. Olin, DO
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1992, 59 (1) 96-97;

    Of the many disorders that imitate vasculitis, one is particularly challenging to the diagnostician and produces significant patient morbidity and mortality.

  • Superior vena cava syndrome after open heart surgery
    H.J. Maggiano, MD, Thomas L. Higgins, MD, W. Lobo, MD, G. Makos, MD and Leonard A. R. Golding, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1992, 59 (1) 93-95;
  • Acute tubulointerstitial nephritis
    Sara S. Eapen, MD and Phillip M. Hall, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1992, 59 (1) 27-32;

    This condition should be suspected in patients with new azotemia who do not exhibit prerenal factors, features typical of acute tubular necrosis or a glomerular process, or evidence of obstructive uropathy.

  • A good death: is euthanasia the answer?
    Martin L. Smith, STD, James Orlowski, MD, Charles Radey, MD and Giles Scofield, JD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1992, 59 (1) 99-109;

    Better pain management and a willingness to provide care within already established ethical and legal guidelines are the appropriate responses to current proposals for assistance in dying.

  • Treating Respiratory Infections in HIV-Positive Patients
    Susan Rehm, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1992, 59 (1) 13-96;

    In HIV-positive patients, respiratory infection symptoms can usually be treated or at least suppressed, but the clinical response may be obscured.

  • Experimental therapies for multiple sclerosis: current status
    Donald E. Goodkin, MD, Richard M. Ransohoff, MD and Richard A. Rudick, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1992, 59 (1) 63-74;

    A critical analysis of current experimental agents and obstacles to the development of effective drug therapy.

  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Neisseria Gonorrhoeae
    Roselyn J. Rice, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1992, 59 (1) 97;

    Many of the N gonorrhoeae strains seen today are impervious to the relatively inexpensive drugs advocated for primary treatment in earlier years.

  • Stereotactic biopsy of nonneoplastic lesions in adults
    Donald M. Whiting, MD, Gene H. Barnett, MD, Melinda L. Estes, MD, Cathy A. Sila, MD, Richard A. Rudick, MD, Samuel J. Hassenbusch, MD, PhD and Charles F. Lanzieri, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1992, 59 (1) 48-55;

    Stereotactic biopsy is useful in identifying non-neoplastic intracranial lesions when the diagnosis was unclear by conventional means. An accompanying commentary puts the results in perspective.

  • America and death: reflections on euthanasia
    Steven G. Post, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1992, 59 (1) 58-60;
  • Consent to treatment with zidovudine among HIV-infected patients
    Kwan Kew Lai, DMD, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1992, 59 (1) 45-47;

    A high percentage of HIV-infected patients, both asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic, are consenting to zidovudine therapy, despite the risk for serious adverse effects associated with this agent.

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