Mayo Clinic Proceedings back issues from February 2006:
Essential Thrombocythemia Beyond the First Decade: Life Expectancy, Long-term Complication Rates, and Prognostic Factors
Feb 01, 2006; ... OBJECTIVE: To describe the long-term natural history of essential thrombocythemia (ET) in terms of life expectancy, risk of disease transformation into a more aggressive myeloid disorder, and prognostic factors for both survival and disease complications. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The study ...
Diffuse Bronchiolar Disease Due to Chronic Occult Aspiration
Feb 01, 2006; ... OBJECTIVE: To describe clinical, radiological, and histopathologic features of diffuse bronchiolar disease due to chronic occult aspiration. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We identified 4 patients encountered from July 2001 to January 2004 who had persistent respiratory symptoms and lung ...
Iron Chelation Therapy for Myelodysplastic Syndrome: If and When
Feb 01, 2006; ... In November 2005, the US Food and Drag Administration approved deferasirox (Exjade, Novartis), an oral iron chelating agent, for use in transfusional hemosiderosis associated with hemoglobinopathies, rare anemias, and the myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS).1 Before this date, the only Food and Drug ...
Effect of Shifting Costs to Patients on Specialty Evaluation for Sleep Disorders
Feb 01, 2006; ... OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the introduction of out-of-pocket expenses to medical center employees would lead to decreased use of sleep disorder services. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed and compared the clinical and medical accounting data from visits by Mayo ...
Pharmacological Therapy for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Feb 01, 2006; ... Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an inflammatory process caused by a variety of direct and indirect injuries to the lungs. Despite improvements in supportive care and advances in ventilator management, mortality in patients with ARDS remains high. Multiple pharmacological ...
Dementia and Cerebrovascular Disease
Feb 01, 2006; ... Cerebrovascular disease is an important cause of cognitive impairment and dementia in elderly patients. This review highlights the challenges involved in examining the role of cerebrovascular disease in dementia, areas in which consensus is emerging, and an operational framework for clinicians ....
Acromegaly With Normal Insulin-like Growth Factor I Levels
Feb 01, 2006; ... A 68-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with acute pansinusitis and sepsis. She had edematous hands and feet, frontal bossing, macrognathia, coarse facial features, and numerous skin tags in nonflexural areas. Computed tomography of the head confirmed sinusitis and revealed diffuse ...
High-Normal Platelet Factor 4-Heparin Antibodies and Mortality in Hemodialysis Patients/In reply
Feb 01, 2006; ... To the Editor: After reading the abstract of the article on the association of heparin-dependent antibodies and adverse outcomes in hemodialysis patients, published in the August 2005 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, I was puzzled by the results that demonstrated that elevated levels of ...
Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Feb 01, 2006; ... Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a group of several different diseases, the treatment and outcome of which depend on several factors, including leukemia karyotype, patient age, and comorbid conditions. Despite advances in understanding the molecular biology of AML, its treatment remains ...
Magnetic Insoles/In reply
Feb 01, 2006; ... To the Editor: The article by Winemiller et al1 published in the September 2005 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings contains numerous methodological flaws and a faulty hypothesis. Thus, it is not surprising that the magnetic insoles were ineffective. The study cohort used the active and sham ...
CORRECTION
Feb 01, 2006; ... Incorrect wording: In the article by Boatwright et al entitled "Health Care Maintenance in Female Adolescents," published in the December 2005 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings (Mayo Clin Proc. 2005;80:1641-1650), the sentence in the 3rd line of the left-hand column on ...
Bioterrorism and Infectious Agents: A New Dilemma for the 21st Century
Feb 01, 2006; ... Bioterrorism and Infectious Agents: A New Dilemma for the 21st Century, edited by L. W. Fong and Kenneth Alibek, 273 pp, with illus, $99, New York, NY, Springer-Verlag (telephone: 800-777-4643), 2005, ISBN 0-387-23684-8 Type and Scope of Book: This multiauthored review is from a ...
Hypertension
Feb 01, 2006; ... Hypertension, edited by Matthew R. Weir, 259 pp, with illus, $42, Independence Mall West, Sixth Street at Race, Philadelphia, PA 19106, American College of Physicians (telephone: 800-523-1546), 2005, ISBN 1-930513-58-5 Type and Scope of Book: A focused multiauthored review of common ...
The Long-term Outlook for Essential Thrombocythemia
Feb 01, 2006; ... In this era of multicenter randomized trials, the usefulness of carefully collected, long-term single-center data is often underestimated, particularly for understanding the natural history and long-term complications of chronic and seemingly benign diseases. Such studies have many advantages, ...
Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis
Feb 01, 2006; ... A 14-year-old daughter of Nigerian immigrants presented with gait disturbance and blurry vision of 3 weeks' duration coincident with the beginning of high school. She had experienced falls and walking into lockers in her new school. The patient had no recent infections or vaccinations. She ...
Silent Pain Sufferers
Feb 01, 2006; ... OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the proportion and characteristics of patients with chronic pain who do not seek treatment and assess whether these patients have unmet pain care needs. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional survey of residents of Olmsted County, Minnesota, from ...
Association of Plasma Homocysteine With Coronary Artery Calcification in Different Categories of Coronary Heart Disease Risk
Feb 01, 2006; ... OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association of plasma homocysteine with coronary artery calcification (CAC) in strata based on 10-year risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in a cohort enriched in persons with hypertension. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS: Fasting plasma homocysteine was measured ...
National Institutes of Health-Sponsored Workshop on Inflammation and Immunity in Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Feb 01, 2006; ... Nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is an uncommon cause of heart failure but has widespread importance because it is the cause of 45% of heart transplantations. Multiple experimental and clinical lines of evidence have implicated altered immunity in the pathogenesis of DCM. However, ...
Clinical Importance of Cardiac Troponin Release and Cardiac Abnormalities in Patients With Supratentorial Cerebral Hemorrhages
Feb 01, 2006; ... OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence of cardiac troponin T (cTnT) elevation, electrocardiographic (ECG) changes, and arrhythmias in supratentorial intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) and their association with early mortality. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Patients with supratentorial ICHs admitted ...
Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Associated Peripheral Neuropathies
Feb 01, 2006; ... Peripheral neuropathy has emerged as the most common neurologic complication of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. It will continue to play an important role in HIV infection given the fact that HIV-infected individuals are living longer, are at risk of long-term metabolic ...
Hearing Loss and Hearing Aid Treatment Options
Feb 01, 2006; ... Hearing loss is a common problem that impacts quality of life for the patient, family members, and caretakers. Unfortunately, hearing loss is often undiagnosed and untreated. This article summarizes symptoms of typical hearing loss associated with aging and simple screening procedures that can ...
Who Chooses the Appropriate Treatment for Hyperhidrosis-Physician and Patient, or Insurer?/In reply
Feb 01, 2006; ... To the Editor: Hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating beyond that required for body temperature regulation) has become a more familiar term to the public because of increased awareness of this problem as a "real" entity and the availability of information on the Internet. In the May 2005 issue of ...
Luis Walter Alvarez: Another "Mayo-Trained" Nobel Laureate
Feb 01, 2006; ... Many people inside and outside of Mayo Clinic know about Philip Showalter Hench (1896-1965) and Edward Calvin Kendall (1866-1972)-fortune-favored Mayo investigators who shared the 1950 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine with Polish chemist Tadeus Reichstein (1897-1996) for adrenal ...
Clarity of Language/In reply
Feb 01, 2006; ... To the Editor: Bravo to Dr Esther for his letter published in the September 2005 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, in which he called for more clarity of language in our profession and ridding ourselves of the redundant term past in past medical history. I would like to add the redundant term ...
Finasteride: Middle-Age Cure-All for Alopecia and Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia?/In reply/In reply
Feb 01, 2006; ... To the Editor: I laud the editorial decision of including the well-written and informative article relating to androgenetic alopecia in men,1 which was published in the October 2005 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. In my opinion, many busy clinicians toiling to prevent or treat life-threatening ...
Consumer Health Informatics: Informing Consumers and Improving Health Care
Feb 01, 2006; ... Consumer Health Informatics: Informing Consumers and Improving Health Care, edited by Deborah Lewis, Gunther Eysenbach, Rita Kukafka, P. Zoe Stavri, and Holly Jimison, 258 pp, with illus, $69.95, New York, NY, Springer-Verlag C (telephone: 800-777-4643), 2005, ISBN 0-387-23991-X Type and ...
Vascular Diagnosis
Feb 01, 2006; ... Vascular Diagnosis, edited by M. Ashraf Mansour and Nicos Labropoulos, 573 pp, with illus, $139, Philadelphia, Pa, WB Saunders (telephone: 800-545-2522), 2005, ISBN 0-7216-9426-8 Type and Scope of Book: A multiauthored review of noninvasive diagnostic techniques for vascular ...
Atlas of Sleep Medicine
Feb 01, 2006; ... Atlas of Sleep Medicine, edited by Sudhansu Chokroverty, Robert J. Thomas, and Meeta Bhatt, 362 pp, with illus, $95, Newton, Mass, Butterworth-Heinemann (telephone: 800-545-2522), 2005, ISBN 0-7506-7398-2 Type and Scope of Book: A comprehensive, multiauthored atlas of polysomnography and ...