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  • Differentiating Among Renal Stones
    Phillip M. Hall, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 1992, 59 (4) 347-348;

    Recognizing the signs and symptoms of each type of renal stone disease provides clues to the underlying metabolic derangement and enables prompt intervention to reduce the chance of recurrence.

  • When and Why to Consider Estrogen Therapy
    Delbert L. Booher, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 1992, 59 (4) 345-347;

    Estrogen replacement therapy in postmenopausal women reduces the risk of osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease. Yet only 14% of postmenopausal women who could benefit from estrogen therapy are receiving it.

  • Contemporary Considerations in Exercise ECG Testing
    Fredric J. Pashkow, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 1992, 59 (3) 231-232;

    Despite the promises of new technologies, ECG use is increasing and its clinical applications are diversifying.

  • Trends in Noncardiac Chest Pain
    Gary W. Falk, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 1992, 59 (3) 232-237;

    The prognosis for patients with noncardiac chest pain is excellent, yet functional outcome is generally poor because many patients continue to believe their pain has a cardiac source.

  • Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction
    Leonard H. Calabrese, DO, Theresa Danao, MD and Enrico G. Camara, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 1992, 59 (2) 123-124;

    Recent advances in the understanding of the syndrome of chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction facilitate diagnosis and treatment of specific subsets of patients.

  • Assessing New Techniques in Coronary Angioplasty
    Donald S. Baim, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 1992, 59 (2) 124-126;

    A cardiologist describes how two new techniques were integrated into everyday practice.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Managing Three Common Oncologic Emergencies
    David J. Adelstein, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 1991, 58 (6) 457-458;

    Spinal cord compression, superior vena cava syndrome, and hypercalcemia are tumor-related emergencies clinicians need to watch for in patients with malignancy.

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