Mayo Clinic Proceedings back issues from November 2007:
Pneumocephalus
Nov 01, 2007; ... A 61-year-old man with hypertension presented to the emergency department after fainting. For the preceding 3 days, he had had a severe right frontal headache that worsened when he leaned forward, coughed, or sneezed. On admission, his temperature was 37.6°C. Noncontrast computed ...
Dizziness: How Do Patients Describe Dizziness and How Do Emergency Physicians Use These Descriptions for Diagnosis?
Nov 01, 2007; ... "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking ...
Pharmaceutical Erythropoietin Use in Patients With Cancer: Is It Time to Abandon Ship or Just Drop Anchor?
Nov 01, 2007; ... Pharmaceutical erythropoietins, also known as erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs), include epoetin alfa, epoetin beta, and darbepoetin alfa. Epoetin alfa is marketed in the United States as either Epogen (Amgen Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA) or Procrit (Ortho Biotech Products LP, Bridgewater, NJ, ...
Overreliance on Symptom Quality in Diagnosing Dizziness: Results of a Multicenter Survey of Emergency Physicians
Nov 01, 2007; ... OBJECTIVE: To assess emergency physicians' diagnostic approach to the patient with dizziness, using a multicenter quantitative survey. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS: We anonymously surveyed attending and resident emergency physicians at 17 academic-affiliated emergency departments with an ...
Imprecision in Patient Reports of Dizziness Symptom Quality: A Cross-sectional Study Conducted in an Acute Care Setting
Nov 01, 2007; ... OBJECTIVE: To quantify precision in patient reports of different attributes of dizziness. PATIENTS AND METHODS: In a cross-sectional study, we interviewed consecutive adult patients with dizziness at 2 urban academic emergency departments (EDs) from July 2, 2005, to August 26, 2005. We ...
A Population-Based Study of the Incidence and Complication Rates of Herpes Zoster Before Zoster Vaccine Introduction
Nov 01, 2007; ... OBJECTIVE: To establish accurate, up-to-date, baseline epidemic-logical data for herpes zoster (HZ) before the Introduction of the recently licensed HZ vaccine. METHODS: Using data from January 1,1996, to October 15, 2005, we conducted a population-based study of adult residents (s22 ...
Use of Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Predicting Response to Inhaled Corticosteroids for Chronic Cough
Nov 01, 2007; ... OBJECTIVE: To evaluate our experience with patients who presented with chronic cough and how exhaled nitric oxide predicted response to Inhaled corticosterold (ICS) therapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This retrospective observational study of 114 patients evaluated for chronic cough with ...
The Safety of Electroconvulsive Therapy in Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis
Nov 01, 2007; ... Little is known about the safety of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) In patients with severe aortic stenosis and depression and other psychiatric syndromes. We conducted a retrospective review of the medical records of 10 patients with severe aortic stenosis who underwent ECT at Mayo Clinic, ...
Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
Nov 01, 2007; ... A 47-year-old woman sought medical assistance because of multiple symptomatic telangiectasias of her tongue, soft palate, gumline, lips, fingertips, and toes. Since the age of 15 years, she had required numerous electrocauterizations to control bleeding, primarily for daily bouts of epistaxis ...
Depression and Coronary Artery Disease: Is There a Platelet Link?
Nov 01, 2007; ... The potential cardioprotective effects of antidepressants have received substantial attention from the lay press. On March 17, 1999, a reporter for USA Today, summarizing the findings of a presentation that would soon after be given by Jerome Markovitz of the University of Alabama at the ...
Use of Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents in Patients With Anemia of Chronic Kidney Disease: Overcoming the Pharmacological and Pharmacoeconomic Limitations of Existing Therapies
Nov 01, 2007; ... Stage 3 chronic kidney disease (CKD), which is characterized by a glomerular filtration rate of 30 to 60 mL/min/1.73 m^sup 2^ (reference range, 90-200 mL/min/1.73m^sup 2^ for a 20-year-old, with a decrease of 4 mL/min per decade), affects approximately 8 million people in the United States ....
Effects of Statins on Renal Function
Nov 01, 2007; ... Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are much more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than end-stage renal disease. Dyslipidemia is highly prevalent in patients with CKD and may contribute to the elevated cardiovascular risk as well as CKD progression. Statins are lipid-lowering drugs ...
A System-Based Approach to Depression Management in Primary Care Using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9
Nov 01, 2007; ... Primary care physicians are more likely to see patients with depression than with any other disorder except hypertension, and Its management poses a challenge to busy primary care practices. The Patient Health Questionnaire-9, a simple self-administered tool of proven validity and reliability, ...
19-Year-Old Man With Chest Pain, Fever, and Vomiting
Nov 01, 2007; ... A previously healthy man aged 19 years was transferred to the emergency department with a 5-day history of fever, chills, and night sweats; 2 days of nausea and severe vomiting; and 1 day of acute substernal chest pain that was sharp, radiated to the left shoulder, and was exacerbated both by ...
Sarcoma
Nov 01, 2007; ... Sarcomas comprise a heterogeneous group of mesenchymal neoplasms. They can be grouped into 2 general categories, soft tissue sarcoma and primary bone sarcoma, which have different staging and treatment approaches. This review includes a discussion of both soft tissue sarcomas (malignant fibrous ...
Limitations of "Evidence-Based Indications" for Herbs/In reply
Nov 01, 2007; ... To the Editor: Bardia et al1 present interesting epidemiological data on the use of herbal supplements, but their premise that "some herbal supplements now have evidence-based indications derived from scientific data" requires qualification. They cite the Natural Standard as their source of ...
Thanksgiving Dishes: Parable for Consultants
Nov 01, 2007; ... To the Editor. My brother Harry and I rose from our postprandial slumber to do Thanksgiving dishes. I was the washer. He was the dryer. There were a lot of dishes. I handed him one with a smudge of gravy. Noticing it, I said, "Give it back," to which my brother replied, "a good dryer never gives ...
CORRECTIONS
Nov 01, 2007; ... Misattribution of a quotation: In the editorial by Lanier and Berge entitled "Physician Involvement in Capital Punishment: Simplifying a Complex Calculus" published in the September 2007 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings (Mayo Clin Proc. 2007;82(9): 1043-1046), a quotation was incorrectly ...
Healing Body and Mind: A Critical Issue for Health Care Reform
Nov 01, 2007; ... Healing Body and Mind: A Critical Issue for Health Care Reform, by Roger Kathol and Suzanne Gatteau, 190 pp, with illus, $49.95, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881, Greenwood Publishing Group (telephone: 203-2263571), 2007, ISBN 0-275-99201-2 Type and Scope of Book: An analysis of the ...
Fundamentals of Clinical Research: Bridging Medicine, Statistics and Operations
Nov 01, 2007; ... Fundamentals of Clinical Research: Bridging Medicine, Statistics and Operations, by Antonella Bacchieri and Giovanni Delia Cioppa, 343 pp, with illus, $99, New York, NY, Springer (telephone: 800-777-4643), 2007, ISBN 88-470-0491-8 Type and Scope of Book: A comprehensive introductory text ...
Netter's Concise Neurology
Nov 01, 2007; ... Netter's Concise Neurology, by Karl E. Misulis and Thomas C. Head, 568 pp, with illus, $48.95, Philadelphia, PA, Saunders (telephone: 800-545-2522), 2007, ISBN 1-929007-89-2 Type and Scope of Book: A synopsis and atlas of neurology that includes artwork from Dr Frank H. Netter, a famous ...
Global Perspectives on Health Promotion Effectiveness
Nov 01, 2007; ... Global Perspectives on Health Promotion Effectiveness, edited by David V. McQueen and Catherine M. Jones, 425 pp, with illus, $69.95, New York, NY, Springer (telephone: 800-777-4643), 2007, ISBN 978-0-387-70973-8 Type and Scope of Book: A multiauthored text. Recommended ...
Treatment of the Obese Patient
Nov 01, 2007; ... Treatment of the Obese Patient, edited by Robert F. Kushner and Daniel H. Bessesen, 440 pp, with illus, $129, Totowa, NJ, Humana Press (telephone: 973-256-1699), 2007, ISBN 978-1-58829-735-8 Type and Scope of Book: A comprehensive, multiauthored review of the physiological factors that ...