Annals of Internal Medicine

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1 October 1988, Vol. 109. No. 7

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Brief Reports

Calcitonin Deficiency after Radioactive Iodine Treatment

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J. J. Body, MD; N. Demeester-Mirkine, MD; and J. Corvilain, MD

Topics: calcitonin, radioactive iodine

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):590-591. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-590

Maintenance Amphotericin B for Cryptococcal Meningitis in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

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Abigail Zuger, MD; Michael Schuster, MD; Michael S. Simberkoff, MD; James J. Rahal, MD; and Robert S. Holzman, MD

Topics: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, amphotericin b, cryptococcal meningitis

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):592-593. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-592

Academia and the Profession

Preventable Deaths: Who, How Often, and Why?

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Robert W. Dubois, MD, PhD; and Robert H. Brook, MD, ScD

Topics: myocardial infarction, quality of care, cerebrovascular accident, hospitals, pneumonia, apache, mortality

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):582-589. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-582

Editorials

Predicting and Evaluating Patient Outcomes

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William A. Knaus, MD; and David B. Nash, MD, MBA

Topics: #

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):521-522. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-521

Treatment of Sustained Ventricular Arrhythmias: Which Therapy to Use?

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Francis E. Marchlinski, MD

Topics: ventricular arrhythmia

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):522-525. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-522

Myocarditis and Endomyocardial Biopsy in Unexplained Heart Failure: A Diagnosis in Search of a Disease

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J.T. Lie, MD

Topics: myocarditis, endomyocardial biopsy, heart failure

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):525-528. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-525

Book Notes

Physicians Observed. A Startling Examination of the Men and Women We Trust with Our Lives.

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Topics: women

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):601. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-601_1

Doctors' Marriages: A Look at the Problems and Their Solutions.

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Topics: marriage, life event

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):601. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-601_2

Headache: Problems in Diagnosis and Management.

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Topics: headache

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):601-602. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-601_3

Faces of Medicine: A Philosophical Study

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Topics: face

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):602. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-602_1

Allergy Kitchen: The Creative Cookie

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Topics: hypersensitivity, immediate hypersensitivity

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):602. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-602_2

Designing Clinical Research: An Epidemiologic Approach

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Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):602. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-602_3

The Challenge of Epidemiology: Issues and Selected Readings

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Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):602. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-602_4

A Dictionary of Epidemiology

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Topics: dictionaries

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):602. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-602_5

Tumors of the Upper Respiratory Tract and Ear

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Topics: ear, neoplasms, upper respiratory tract

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):602-603. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-602_6

The Medical Management of Breast Cancer

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Topics: breast cancer

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):603. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-603_1

Interventional Radiology

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Topics: radiology, interventional

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):603. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-603_2

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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Topics: inflammatory bowel disease

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):603. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-603_3

Color Atlas of Gastrointestinal Pathology

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Topics: color

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):603. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-603_4

Drug Interactions Index

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Topics: drug interactions

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):603. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-603_5

Handbook of Clinical Drug Data

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Topics: #

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):603. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-603_6

Caring for the Disabled Elderly: Who Will Pay?

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Topics: disabled persons, elderly

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):604. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-604

Articles

Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators and Survival of Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Malignant Ventricular Arrhythmias

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Patrick J. Tchou, MD; Nazih Kadri, MD; Jerry Anderson, MS; Jose A. Caceres, MD; Mohammad Jazayeri, MD; and Masood Akhtar, MD

Topics: ventricular dysfunction, left, implantable defibrillators, malignant ventricular arrhythmia

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):529-534. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-529

Endomyocardial Biopsy in Patients with Unexplained Congestive Heart Failure

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Leon C. Chow, MD; Howard C. Dittrich, MD; and Ralph Shabetai, MD

Topics: endomyocardial biopsy, congestive heart failure

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):535-539. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-535

Salvage Therapy in Recurrent Germ Cell Cancer: Ifosfamide and Cisplatin plus Either Vinblastine or Etoposide

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Patrick J. Loehrer Sr., MD; Richard Lauer, MD; Bruce J. Roth, MD; Stephen D. Williams, MD; Lorrie A. Kalasinski, MPH; and Lawrence H. Einhorn, MD

Topics: cisplatin, etoposide, ifosfamide, salvage therapy, vinblastine, germ cell cancer

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):540-546. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-540

Adrenal Localization in the Adrenocorticotropic Hormone-Independent Cushing Syndrome

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Lorraine M. Fig, MB, ChB, MPH; Milton D. Gross, MD; Brahm Shapiro, MB, ChB, PhD; David A. Ehrmann, MD; John E. Freitas, MD; David E. Schteingart, MD; Gary M. Glazer, MD; and Isaac R. Francis, MD

Topics: cushing syndrome, adrenal glands, hormone

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):547-553. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-547

The Frequency of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in Patients with Symptoms of Persistent Fatigue

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Peter Manu, MD; Thomas J. Lane, MD; and Dale A. Matthews, MD

Topics: chronic fatigue syndrome, fatigue, frequency

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):554-556. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-554

Letters

Pneumococcal Vaccine in the Elderly

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Clyde B. Schechter, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):594-595. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-594

Anti-p24 Antibody Reactivity in the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)-Related Complex Treated with Isoprinosine

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Kwong-Yok Tsang, PhD; Elizabeth A. Johnson, PhD; and Mariano F. La Via, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):595. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-595_1

Interferon-Gamma and Mycobacterial Infections

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Alfred J. Crowle, PhD

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Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):595-596. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-595_2

Fibrolamellar Hepatocellular Carcinoma

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Mark T. Ruffin IV, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):596-597. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-596

Stool Collections

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Richard A. Levine, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):597. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-597_1

Lovastatin, Nicotinic Acid, and Rhabdomyolysis

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Peter Reaven, MD; and Joseph L. Witztum, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):597-598. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-597_2

Neuropathic Beriberi and Carbamazepine

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William Paul Skelton III, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):598-599. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-598

Stress in Residency

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George Wesley, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):599-600. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-599

Correction: Disputed Pakistan-India Territory

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Afrasiab

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Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):600. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-600_1

Correction: Left Ventricular Contractility and Blood-Ionized Calcium

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Marcus A. Krupp, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):600. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-600_2

Correction: Affiliations of Authors of Article on Pulmonary Capillary Hemangiomatosis

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Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):600. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-600_3

Reviews

Combined Use of Calcium-Channel and Beta-Adrenergic Blockers for the Treatment of Chronic Stable Angina: Rationale, Efficacy, and Adverse Effects

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William E. Strauss, MD; and Alfred F. Parisi, MD

Topics: beta-blocker, angina, stable, calcium channel

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):570-581. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-570

Conferences

Cystinosis: Progress in a Prototypic Disease

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William A. Gahl, MD, PhD; Jess G. Thoene, MD; Jerry A. Schneider, MD; Sean O'Regan, MD; Muriel I. Kaiser-Kupfer, MD; and Toichiro Kuwabara, MD

Topics: #

Ann Intern Med. 1988;109(7):557-569. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-109-7-557

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