TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 June 1998 Volume 128 Issue 11	Previous Issue  |  Next Issue

Predictors of Systemic Embolism in Patients with Mitral Stenosis: A Prospective Study

Cheng-Wen Chiang, Sing-Kai Lo, Yu-Shien Ko, Nye-Jan Cheng, Pyng Jing Lin, and Chau-Hsiung Chang

Diagnostic Yield and Optimal Duration of Continuous-Loop Event Monitoring for the Diagnosis of Palpitations: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Peter J. Zimetbaum, Kelly Y. Kim, Mark E. Josephson, Ary L. Goldberger, and David J. Cohen

Increased Risk for Cancer in Patients with the Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome

Lisa A. Boardman, Stephen N. Thibodeau, Daniel J. Schaid, Noralane M. Lindor, Shannon K. McDonnell, Lawrence J. Burgart, David A. Ahlquist, Karl C. Podratz, Mark Pittelkow, and Lynn C. Hartmann

Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham

Family History of Colorectal Adenomatous Polyps and Increased Risk for Colorectal Cancer

Habibul Ahsan, Alfred I. Neugut, Gail C. Garbowski, Judith S. Jacobson, Kenneth A. Forde, Michael R. Treat, and Jerome D. Waye

Fugitive Pieces

Anne Michaels

Multiple Concurrent Reverse Transcriptase and Protease Mutations and Multidrug Resistance of HIV-1 Isolates from Heavily Treated Patients

Robert W. Shafer, Mark A. Winters, Sarah Palmer, and Thomas C. Merigan

Nodular Cutaneous Microsporidiosis in a Patient with AIDS and Successful Treatment with Long-Term Oral Clindamycin Therapy

Kent E. Kester, George W. Turiansky, and Peter L. McEvoy

Market Influences on Internal Medicine Residents' Decisions To Subspecialize

Ernest Valente, Suzanne M. Wyatt, Ernest Moy, Rebecca J. Levin, and Paul F. Griner

At Swim-Two-Birds

Flann O'Brien

Epidemiology of Human Rabies in the United States, 1980 to 1996

Donald L. Noah, Cherie L. Drenzek, Jean S. Smith, John W. Krebs, Lillian Orciari, John Shaddock, Dane Sanderlin, Sylvia Whitfield, Makonnen Fekadu, James G. Olson, Charles E. Rupprecht, and James E. Childs

Mosquitoes and Mosquito Repellents: A Clinician's Guide

Mark S. Fradin

Letter from Reykjavik

Palmi V. Jonsson

What's New in Transplant Immunology: Problems and Prospects

Laurence A. Turka

On the Death of House Officers

Faith Fitzgerald and T. Jock Murray

Resisting Resistance: Maximizing the Durability of Antiretroviral Therapy

Jon H. Condra

The Death of Ivan Ilych

Leo Tolstoy

Death in Springtime

Lawrence Smith

Interferon- in Chronic Hepatitis C

Savino Bruno, Mauro Borzio, and Pier Maria Battezzati

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Patrick Marcellin—RESPONSE

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Successful Treatment of Hyperammonemia after Lung Transplantation

Jose F. Rueda, Cary Caldwell, and Daniel C. Brennan

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Adult (Not Internal) Medicine

Alvin Lee Block

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Brian J. Bohlmann

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David Sokol

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Edgardo Zavala-Alarcon and Mauricio Pineda-Roman

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Lee Roof

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Mark J. Corapi and Anthony J. Calio

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Lee Goldman—RESPONSE

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Medical Writings 

Literature and Medicine: An On-Line Guide

Rita Charon and Martha Montello

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On Ancient Medicine

Hippocrates

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Medical Writings: Book Notes 

Ophthalmology for the Primary Care Practitioner

David A. Horowitz

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Managed Care, Outcomes, and Quality: A Practical Guide

Eugene C. Rich

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Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life

Lisa Stepp

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