Table of Contents

Biological and Virologic Characteristics of Primary HIV Infection

• Timothy W. Schacker,
• James P. Hughes,
• Theresa Shea,
• Robert W. Coombs,
• and Lawrence Corey

The Accuracy of Substituted Judgments in Patients with Terminal Diagnoses

• Daniel P. Sulmasy,
• Peter B. Terry,
• Carol S. Weisman,
• Deborah J. Miller,
• Rebecca Y. Stallings,
• Margaret A. Vettese,
• and Karen B. Haller

Transesophageal Echocardiography To Assess Embolic Risk in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

• Claudia Stollberger,
• Pavel Chnupa,
• Gerhard Kronik,
• Michael Brainin,
• Josef Finsterer,
• Barbara Schneider,
• and Jorg Slany

Transesophageal Echocardiographic Correlates of Thromboembolism in High-Risk Patients with Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation

Histologic and Cytokine Response to Immunosuppression in Giant-Cell Myocarditis

• Nat T. Levy,
• Lyle J. Olson,
• Cornelia Weyand,
• Alexander Brack,
• Henry D. Tazelaar,
• William D. Edwards,
• and Stephen C. Hammill

Anna Karenina

• Leo Tolstoy

Developing and Testing Changes in Delivery of Care

• Donald M. Berwick

Noninvasive Diagnosis of Deep Venous Thrombosis

• Clive Kearon,
• Jim A. Julian,
• M Math,
• Toni E. Newman,
• and Jeffrey S. Ginsberg

The Clinical Behavior of Localized and Multicentric Castleman Disease

• Juan Herrada,
• Fernando Cabanillas,
• Lawrence Rice,
• John Manning,
• and William Pugh

Understanding the Fraud and Abuse Laws: Guidance for Internists

Transesophageal Echocardiography and Atrial Fibrillation: Added Value or Expensive Toy?

• Warren J. Manning and
• Pamela S. Douglas

Cutting Waste and Keeping Faith

• M. Gregg Bloche

Brignole

• Anne P. Rogal

Perioperative Cardiac Risk Assessment and Management

• Robert Schiff

Perioperative Cardiac Risk Assessment and Management

• Steven L. Cohn

Perioperative Cardiac Risk Assessment and Management

• Valerie A. Palda and
• Allan S. Detsky

Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors in Nondiabetic Renal Disease

• Romulo E. Colindres and
• Abhijik V. Kshirsagar

Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors in Nondiabetic Renal Disease

• Andrew S. Levey,
• Joseph Lau,
• and Ioannis Giatras

Hepatitis C and B-Cell Lymphoma

• Ashwin Kashyap,
• Auayporn Nademanee,
• and Arturo Molina

Hepatitis C and B-Cell Lymphoma

• Eli Zuckerman,
• Tsila Zuckerman,
• and Alexandra M. Levine

Social Class and Recovery from Myocardial Infarction

• L. Julian Haywood

Social Class and Recovery from Myocardial Infarction

• Jeannette R. Ickovics,
• Catherine M. Viscoli,
• and Ralph I. Horwitz

Botulinum Toxin in Long-Term Therapy for Achalasia

• Vito Annese,
• Vittorio D'Onofrio,
• and Angelo Andriulli

Aspirin in the Management of Recurrent Herpes Simplex Virus Infection

• Istvan Karadi,
• Sarolta Karpati,
• and Laszlo Romics

Quantitative Assessment of Hepatitis B Virus DNA during a 24-Week Course of Lamivudine Therapy

• Pieter Honkoop,
• Robert A. de Man,
• and Hubert G.M. Niesters

Medicine: A Caring Profession?

• Marjorie S. Sirridge

Medicine: A Caring Profession?

• Michael A. LaCombe

Time

• Jerome S. Reich

Time

• Edward J. Volpintesta

Time

• Frank Davidoff

Notice: Overlapping Publication

Sacred Space: Stories from a Life in Medicine

• Herbert M. Swick

Geriatric Medicine

• Isaac Kleinman

Saunders Infection Control Reference Service

• Paul O'Keefe and
• Sandra M. Blake VonBehren

A Registry for Clinical Trials

• Susan Chollar

Epilepsy Treatment Enters a New Era

• Tom Reynolds

Women's Issues in Epilepsy

News Notes

Elegy for a Lost Toe

• Judy Neri

Light and Air

• George N. Braman

The Shoe

• Jack Coulehan