More articles from Medical Grand Rounds

  • West Nile fever: Lessons from the 2002 season
    Steven M. Gordon, MD and Carlos M. Isada, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2003, 70 (5) 449-454;

    How to diagnose West Nile fever more quickly and recognize a rare polio-like syndrome it causes. Treatment remains problematic.

  • Aggressive treatment of atherosclerosis: The time is now
    Gregg C. Fonarow, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2003, 70 (5) 431-440;

    Too often, we treat the ischemia but ignore the atherosclerosis. A systematic approach is needed.

  • Using BNP to diagnose, manage, and treat heart failure
    Robert E. Hobbs, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine April 2003, 70 (4) 333-336;

    The BNP assay can help guide treatment from diagnosis to hospital discharge. Synthetic BNP is an important new drug.

  • Supersized America: Help your patients regain control of their weight
    Barbara J. Moore, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2003, 70 (3) 237-240;

    Despite disheartening statistics, patients are more likely to lose weight if their physicians encourage them to do so.

  • Erectile dysfunction: Why drug therapy isn’t always enough
    Stephen B. Levine, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2003, 70 (3) 241-246;

    We must not neglect the central role of the mind and emotional relationships in sexual physiology.

  • Improving care of chronic heart failure: Advances from drugs to devices
    Randall C. Starling, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2003, 70 (2) 141-146;

    The right combination of drugs and surgical treatment can improve systolic function and prevent, attenuate, or reverse heart failure.

  • HIV update 2002
    Wendy Armstrong, MD, Leonard Calabrese, DO and Alan Taege, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2002, 69 (12) 995-999;

    “Treat early, treat hard” is changing to “treat a little later, treat hard.”

  • Preventing kidney stones: Calcium restriction not warranted
    Phillip M. Hall, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2002, 69 (11) 885-888;

    Normal dietary calcium intake, along with reduced salt and protein, is now advised.

  • So you’re being sued: Do’s and don’ts for the defendant
    Carl A. Culley, MD and Leslie J. Spisak, JD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine October 2002, 69 (10) 752-760;

    You may be dangerously uninformed about a process you might well have to face: malpractice litigation.

  • Acute stroke therapy: Beyond IV tPA
    Anthony J. Furlan, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2002, 69 (9) 730-734;

    The quest to improve treatment includes intra-arterial infusion of thrombolytics, mechanical interventions, and neuroprotection through hypothermia.

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