Annals of Internal Medicine

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15 August 1991, Vol. 115. No. 4

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Articles

Aminophylline Therapy for Acute Bronchospastic Disease in the Emergency Room

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Keith Wrenn, MD; Corey M. Slovis, MD; Frances Murphy, RN; and Raymond S. Greenberg, MD, PhD

Topics: emergency service, hospital, aminophylline

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):241-247. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-241

Comparison of an Aggressive (U.S.) and a Less Aggressive (Canadian) Policy for Cholesterol Screening and Treatment

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Murray Krahn, MD; C. David Naylor, MD, DPhil; Antoni S. Basinski, MD, PhD; and Allan S. Detsky, MD, PhD

Topics: cholesterol measurement test

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):248-255. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-248

Hemorrhagic Events during Therapy with Recombinant Tissue-Type Plasminogen Activator, Heparin, and Aspirin for Acute Myocardial Infarction: Results of the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI), Phase II Trial

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Edwin G. Bovill, MD; Michael L. Terrin, MD, MPH; David C. Stump, MD; Andrew D. Berke, MD; Margaret Frederick, PhD; Désiré Collen, MD; Frederick Feit, MD; Joel M. Gore, MD; L. David Hillis, MD; Costas T. Lambrew, MD; Roy Leiboff, MD; Kenneth G. Mann, PhD; John E. Markis, MD; Craig M. Pratt, MD; Scott W. Sharkey, MD; George Sopko, MD, MPH; Russell P. Tracy, PhD; and James H. Chesebro, MD

Topics: myocardial infarction, acute, aspirin, myocardial infarction, heparin, thrombolytic therapy, alteplase, phase 2 ...

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):256-265. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-256

Effect of Triple Therapy (Antibiotics plus Bismuth) on Duodenal Ulcer Healing: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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David Y. Graham, MD; Ginger M. Lew, PA-C; Dolores G. Evans, PhD; Doyle J. Evans Jr., PhD; and Peter D. Klein, PhD

Topics: antibiotics, duodenal ulcer, bismuth

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):266-269. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-266

Increased Risk for Anaphylactoid Reaction from Contrast Media in Patients on β-Adrenergic Blockers or with Asthma

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David M. Lang, MD; Michael B. Alpern, MD; Paul F. Visintainer, PhD; and Stephen T. Smith, MD

Topics: contrast media, asthma, anaphylactoid reaction

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):270-276. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-270

Cocaine and Chest Pain: Clinical Features and Outcome of Patients Hospitalized to Rule Out Myocardial Infarction

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Michael J. Gitter, MD; Steven R. Goldsmith, MD; David N. Dunbar, MD; and Scott W. Sharkey, MD

Topics: myocardial infarction, cocaine, chest pain

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):277-282. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-277

Brief Reports

Fulminant Hepatic Failure Associated with 2′,3′-Dideoxyinosine (ddI)

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Kwan Kew Lai, DMD, MD; David L. Gang, MD; John K. Zawacki, MD; and Timothy P. Cooley, MD

Topics: drug interactions, didanosine, liver failure, acute

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):283-284. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-283

Fluconazole Treatment of Persistent Cryptococcus neoformans Prostatic Infection in AIDS

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Samuel A. Bozzette, MD; Robert A. Larsen, MD; Joseph Chiu, MD; Mary Ann E. Leal, MD; Jeremiah G. Tilles, MD; Douglas D. Richman, MD; John M. Leedom, MD; and J. Allen McCutchan, MD

Topics: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, fluconazole, infection, cryptococcus neoformans, prostate

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):285-286. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-285

Reviews

Hypertension in Women: What is Really Known?: The Women's Caucus, Working Group on Women's Health of the Society of General Internal Medicine *

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Kathryn Anastos, MD; Pamela Charney, MD; Rita A. Charon, MD; Ellen Cohen, MD; Clara Y. Jones, MD; Carola Marte, MD; Deborah M. Swiderski, MD; Mary E. Wheat, MD; and Sarah Williams, MD

Topics: hypertension, internal medicine, women's health, women

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):287-293. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-287

Biologic Response Modifiers in Primary Immunodeficiency Disorders

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Avi Hassner, MD; and Daniel C. Adelman, MD

Topics: biological response modifiers, primary immune deficiency disorder

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):294-307. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-294

Medicine and Public Policy

The U.S. and Canadian Health Care Systems: Views of Resident Physicians

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Rodney A. Hayward, MD; Richard L. Kravitz, MD, MSPH; and Martin F. Shapiro, MD, PhD

Topics: internship and residency, health care systems, medical residencies

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):308-314. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-308

History of Medicine

Scientific Evidence versus Therapeutic Demand: The Introduction of the Sulfonamides Revisited

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Barron H. Lerner, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):315-320. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-315

Editorials

Methylxanthines in the Treatment of Asthma: The Rise, the Fall, and the Possible Rise Again

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E. R. McFadden Jr., MD

Topics: asthma, methylxanthine

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):323-324. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-323

Guidelines for the Detection and Treatment of Elevated Serum Cholesterol: Which Is the Baby and Which Is the Bathwater?

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Thomas A. Pearson, MD, PhD

Topics: guidelines, serum cholesterol measurement

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):324-326. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-324

On Being a Doctor

Discoveries

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Lynn M. Cleary, MD

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Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):321-322. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-321

Book Notes

Uncharted Seas

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Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):333. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-333_1

To Die or Not To Die?: Cross-Disciplinary, Cultural, and Legal Perspectives on the Right to Choose Death

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Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):333-334. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-333_2

Clinical Medicine

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Topics: clinical medicine

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):334. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-334_1

Lecture Notes on Occupational Medicine

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Topics: occupational medicine

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):334. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-334_2

Tomorrow's Doctors: The Path to Successful Practice in the 1990s

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Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):334-335. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-334_3

Melville's Complaint: Doctors and Medicine in the Art of Melville

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Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):335. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-335_1

A Proposed Standard International Acupuncture Nomenclature: Report of a WHO Scientific Group

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Topics: acupuncture therapy discipline, world health organization, acupuncture procedure

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):335. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-335_2

Coronary Artery Stenosis

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Topics: coronary arteriosclerosis, coronary stenosis

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):335. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-335_3

The Cardiac Conduction System in Unexplained Sudden Death

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Topics: death, sudden, cardiac conduction system

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):335-336. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-335_4

An Era in Cardiovascular Medicine

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Topics: cardiovascular system

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):336. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-336_1

Lecture Notes on Cardiology

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Topics: cardiology

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):336. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-336_2

The Heart: Physiology and Metabolism

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Topics: metabolism, heart, physiology

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):336. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-336_3

Fundamental Virology

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Topics: virology

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):336. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-336_4

Letters

Markers of Coronary Disease

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Joon Sup Lee, MD

Topics: coronary heart disease

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):327-328. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-327

AIDS Enteropathy

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Reiner Ullrich, MB; Ernst-Otto Riecken, MD; Martin Zeitz, MD; and Klinikum Steglitz

Topics: hiv enteropathy

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):328. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-328_1

Pneumothorax in AIDS

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Charles A. Kennedy, MD

Topics: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, pneumothorax

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):328-329. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-328_2

Digoxin: Mythology or Evidence?

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Rodney H. Falk, MD

Topics: digoxin, mythology

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):329. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-329_1

Regional Variations in Plasma Fibrinogen Levels

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E. Ernst, MD

Topics: plasma, fibrinogen assay

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):329-330. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-329_2

Urinary Urgency and Acute Intrarenal Bleeding

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Chan Ma, MD; John Wagner, MD; and John Maesaka, MD

Topics: hemorrhage, urinary urgency

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):330. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-330_1

Rigors with Vancomycin

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N. Sharon Conley, MD, PhD; Roy S. Weiner, MD; and John W. Hiemenz, MD

Topics: vancomycin, chills

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):330. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-330_2

ACE Inhibitors and Pancreatitis

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Salim Dabaghi, MD

Topics: angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, pancreatitis

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):330-331. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-330_3

The Doctor's Role in Wartime

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Charles G. Green Jr., MD

Topics: wars

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):331. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-331_1

Cost of Treating Travelers' Diarrhea

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Jorge Goldberg, MD

Topics: traveler's diarrhea

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):331. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-331_2

Corrections

Preventive Care Guidelines: 1991

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Topics: preventive health services, guidelines

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):332. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-332_1

Publication Date for Book

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Topics: #

Ann Intern Med. 1991;115(4):332. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-115-4-332_2

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