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  • 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;
  • Lytic lesion of the knee in a 27-year-old man
    Cathryn Powers, MD, Kathleen Gleason Beavis, MD and Bradford J. Richmond, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 1991, 58 (6) 471-474;

    Right knee pain and lateral knee fullness for 3 months and chronic right ankle pain for 7 months were the presenting symptoms.

  • Severity of illness: APACHE II analysis of an ICU population
    John D. Lockrem, MD, Edgar Lopez, MD, Jean Gallagher, CCRN, Gabie E. Church, MS and Fawzy G. Estafanous, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 1991, 58 (6) 477-486;

    Reporting ICU outcome using APACHE II computer program criteria allows more meaningful comparisons of ICU outcome data, and enables the standardization of quality assurance programs.

  • Signal-averaged electrocardiography for detection of ventricular tachycardia using fast Fourier transform filtering on a standard ECG cart
    Timothy P. Obarski, DO, Donald A. Underwood, MD and Tony Simmons, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 1991, 58 (6) 510-512;

    This new means of generating signal-averaged ECG data compares favorably with bidirectional Butterworth filter or finite impulse response filtering techniques in predicting the inducibility of ventricular tachycardia in the electrophysiology lab.

  • Atherosclerosis and hypertension: clues to effective prevention and treatment
    Nemato Borhani, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 1991, 58 (6) 461;

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