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Accuracy of Transesophageal Echocardiography for Identifying Left Atrial Thrombi: A Prospective, Intraoperative Study

• Warren J. Manning,
• Ronald M. Weintraub,
• Carol A. Waksmonski,
• J. Michael Haering,
• Paula S. Rooney,
• Andrew D. Maslow,
• Robert G. Johnson,
• and Pamela S. Douglas

Mortality in Patients with Hemophilia: Changes in a Dutch Population from 1986 to 1992 and 1973 to 1986

• Mattanja Triemstra,
• Frits R. Rosendaal,
• Cees Smit,
• Henk M. Van der Ploeg,
• and Ernest Briet

Antibody Responses to Polysaccharide and Polysaccharide-Conjugate Vaccines after Treatment of Hodgkin Disease

• Deborah C. Molrine,
• Suzanne George,
• Nancy Tarbell,
• Peter Mauch,
• Lisa Diller,
• Donna Neuberg,
• Robert C. Shamberger,
• Edwin L. Anderson,
• Nichole R. Phillips,
• Karalyn Kinsella,
• and Donna M. Ambrosino

Clostridium difficile Colitis: An Efficient Clinical Approach to Diagnosis

• Yukari C. Manabe,
• Joseph M. Vinetz,
• Richard D. Moore,
• Cindy Merz,
• Patricia Charache,
• and John G. Bartlett

The Risk of Midline Catheterization in Hospitalized Patients: A Prospective Study

• Leonard A. Mermel,
• Stephen Parenteau,
• and Sen Mee Tow

Increased Genital Shedding of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 in HIV-Seropositive Women

• Michael Augenbraun,
• Joseph Feldman,
• Keith Chirgwin,
• Jonathan Zenilman,
• Lorraine Clarke,
• Jack DeHovitz,
• Sheldon Landesman,
• and Howard Minkoff

Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography during Head-Upright Tilt-Table Testing

• Carey S. Fredman,
• Kurt M. Biermann,
• Vipool Patel,
• Erica L. Uppstrom,
• and Arthur I. Auer

Nutritional Issues in Nursing Home Care

• John E. Morley and
• Andrew Jay Silver

The Antioxidant Vitamins and Cardiovascular Disease: A Critical Review of Epidemiologic and Clinical Trial Data

• Prabhat Jha,
• Marcus Flather,
• Eva Lonn,
• Michael Farkouh,
• and Salim Yusuf

Discordance between Meta-analyses and Large-Scale Randomized, Controlled Trials: Examples from the Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction

• Steven Borzak and
• Paul M. Ridker

Competent Patients, Incompetent Decisions

• Ian Kerridge,
• Michael Lowe,
• and Kenneth Mitchell

Shadows on the Cave Wall: The Role of Transesophageal Echocardiography in Atrial Fibrillation

• Bernard J. Gersh and
• John S. Gottdiener

Reactions Associated with Midline Catheters for Intravenous Access

• Dennis G. Maki

Antioxidants and Cardiovascular Disease: Why Do We Still Not Have the Answers?

• Thomas C. Chalmers

Case-Control Study, Meta-analysis, and Bouillabaisse: Putting the Calcium Antagonist Scare into Context

• Franz H. Messerli

Post-Midnight Reverie

• Keith Wrenn

Do Diuretics Cause Heart Disease?

• Kalyanam Shivkumar and
• Robert G. Narins

Do Diuretics Cause Heart Disease?

• Edward D. Freis

Weight Loss and Longevity

• Michael E. J. Lean and
• Paul Garthwaite

Weight Loss and Longevity

• David F. Williamson,
• Elsie Pamuk,
• and Phillip J. Smith, PhD

More on Patients with Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators

• John M. Embil and
• John S. Geddes

More on Patients with Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators

• Sergio L. Pinski and
• Richard G. Trohman

Masked Hyperprolactinemia in a Case of Aldosterone-Producing Adrenal Adenoma

• Yutaka Oki,
• Toshiko Yagi,
• and Teruga Yoshimi

Cutaneous Vasculitis Associated with Mefloquine

• White A. Clinton Jr.,
• Don A. Gard,
• and Sandra L. Sessoms

Reviews and Notes: Equal Partners: A Physician's Call for a New Spirit of Medicine

Reviews and Notes: Cancer of the Colon, Rectum, and Anus

• Sidney Cohen

Reviews and Notes: Constipation: Etiology, Evaluation and Management

• David S. Greenbaum

Reviews and Notes: Neurology: Stroke Therapy

Reviews and Notes: Oncology: High-Dose Cancer Therapy: Pharmacology, Hematopoietins, Stem Cells

Reviews and Notes: Cancer Treatment

Reviews and Notes: Breast Cancer: A Practical Guide to Diagnosis. Volume 1, Procedures

Reviews and Notes: Nutrition: Clinical Sports Nutrition