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  • Sleep in the patient with lung disease
    David P. Meeker, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 1992, 59 (2) 157-165;

    How to recognize and manage the ill effects that sleep-related respiratory changes can have on underlying lung disease, including COPD, asthma, and interstitial lung disease.

  • Survivors of sudden cardiac death: a rational approach to evaluation and therapy of patients surviving ventricular fibrillation
    Arthur J. Rabinowitz, MD and James D. Maloney, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 1992, 59 (2) 166-172;

    A strategy for identifying underlying disease, stratifying the risk of recurrence, and formulating specific therapy in these patients, at high risk for life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias.

  • The phenomenal growth of laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a review
    Raphael S. Chung, MD and Thomas A. Broughan, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 1992, 59 (2) 186-190;

    Touted by surgeons who perforin it and demanded by a public attracted by claims of reduced pain and fast recovery, laparoscopic cholecystectomy is taking the United States by storm. The authors provide insight into the appropriate use of this operation.

  • 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.

  • Experimental limbic epilepsy: models, pathophysiologic concepts, and clinical relevance
    Mohamed Nayel, MD, Issam A. Awad, MD, Mark Larkins, MD and Hans Lüders, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 1991, 58 (6) 521-530;

    Complex partial seizures originating in the temporal lobe are common in epilepsy patients. Drug treatment is often ineffective. What predisposes a patient to these seizures? How do they occur? Animal studies are providing clues to the puzzle.

  • Initial studies with FK506 in renal transplantation
    Mark L. Jordan, MD, Ron Shapiro, MD, John Fung, MD, PhD, Andreas Tzakis, MD, Saturo Todo, MD, Shimon Kusne, MD, Jake Demetrius, MD, Thomas R. Hakala, MD and Thomas E. Starzl, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 1991, 58 (5) 444-446;

    Advantages of this immunosuppressive agent include relatively few side effects and high potency, eliminating the need for steroids in some patients.

  • Eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome
    James W. Kazura, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 1991, 58 (3) 257-270;

    What features distinguish EMS from idiopathic hyper-eosinophilic syndrome and helminthic infections such as trichinosis?

  • Strategies for migraine management
    Seymour Diamond, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 1991, 58 (3) 257-261;

    Optimal management of the migraine patient is a matter of time, persistence, and, most important, frequent follow-up.

  • The value of echocardiography in mitral valve repair
    William J. Stewart, MD, Ernesto E. Salcedo, MD and Delos M. Cosgrove, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 1991, 58 (2) 177-183;

    In patients who require surgery for mitral regurgitation, valve repair may offer numerous advantages over valve replacement.

  • Rehabilitation strategies for the complex cardiac patient
    Fredric J. Pashkow, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 1991, 58 (1) 70-75;

    Cardiac rehabilitation is as advantageous for a patient with life-threatening arrhythmias as for the post-coronary bypass patient, but the program should be carefully designed and monitored.

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