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Annals of Internal Medicine Published Twice Monthly by the American College of Physicians Supplement to Volume 128 Numbers 1-12 AIMEAS 128(1-12)1-1100(1998) US ISSN 0003-4819 INDEX VOLUME 128 1 JANUARY THROUGH 15 JUNE 1998 Copyrighted© 1998 by the American College of Physicians, Independence Mall West, Sixth Street at Race, Philadelphia, PA 19106-1572, U.S.A. For additional copies, contact Customer Service (800-523-1546 ext. 2600). Permission to reproduce articles in whole or in part must be obtained from the Managing Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine. Il Annals of Internal Medicine + Index to Volume 128 Supplement to Volume 128 Numbers 1-12 AIMEAS 128(1-12)1-1100(1998) US ISSN 0003-4819 Annals of Internal Medicine Published Twice Monthly by the American College of Physicians Editorial Staff Editorial Board Editor Robert Evans, PhD, Vancouver Frank Davidoff, MD F. John Gennari, MD, Burlington Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH, San Francisco Editors Emeriti Robert Hillman, MD, BS, Portland, Maine J. Russell Elkinton, MD Lisa lezzoni, MD, MSc, Boston Edward J. Huth, MD Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, Philadelphia Robert A. Levine, MD, Syracuse Senior Deputy Editor Mark Molitch, MD, Chicago David R. Goldmann, MD Jock Murray, MD, Halifax Nathaniel Reichek, MD, Pittsburgh Deputy Editor Charles Safrin, MD, Boston Christine Laine, MD, MPH Raymond Slavin, MD, St. Louis J. Bruce Smith, MD, Philadelphia Associate Editors Mark D. Smith, MD, Menlo Park Elias Abrutyn, MD Daniel Sulmasy, MD, Washington, D.C. John L. Abruzzo, MD Margaret A. Tempero, MD, Omaha E. Victor Adlin, MD Barbara J. Turner, MD, MSEd, MA, Philadelphia Michelle Berlin, MD, MPH Mark J. Utell, MD, Rochester, New York Martin Black, MD Leonard E. Braitman, PhD Publication Committee, Paul E. Epstein, MD American College of Physicians Harold Feldman, MD, MS Chaim M. Bell, MD Steven N. Goodman, MD, PhD, MHS Mark E. Frisse, MD Daniel G. Haller, MD Stanley Goldfarb, MD William G. Kussmaul III, MD Clicerio Gonzalez-Villalpondo, MD Bernard M. Rosof, MD Michael A. LaCombe, MD Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, Chair A. Russell Localio, JD Mark E. Silverman, MD, Vice Chair Executive Editor Margaret A. Tempero, MD Kathleen Case Peter Tugwell, MD Rowen K. Zetterman, MD Assistant Editor Margaret Ring Gillock Publishing Staff Director of Journal Publishing Currents Editor Pamela Fried Margaret Ring Gillock Production Manager Manuscript Processing Supervisor Mary E. Boylan Mary Beth Schaeffer Senior Production Editors Suzanne Brownholtz-Meyers Jennifer Travis Business Staff Production Editor Director Shannon Donovan Michael Koehler Editorial Assistant Advertising Office Jennifer Kearney Brian S. Barker, Business Manager Information Specialist Ara H. Eloian, Production Manager Elizabeth Wolverton Penny Quartapella, Advertising Supervisor Circulation Manager Darlene Kwiatkowski, Sales Representative Betty Layberger Annals of Internal Medicine + Index to Volume 128 Til IV Annals of Internal Medicine + Index to Volume 128 Annals of Internal Medicine Volume 128 Number 1 1 January 1998 ARTICLES Letters 70 The Clinical Validity of Normal Compression Birdwell, Raskob, Zafirlukast in Asthma Ultrasonography in Outpatients Suspected of Having Deep Whitsett, Durica, Transesophageal Intrahepatic Venous Thrombosis Comp, and others Portosystemic Shunts Compared Clarification of the Risk for Venous Thrombosis Simmonds, Ireland, with Sclerotherapy Associated with Hereditary Protein S Deficiency by Lane, Zoller, Garcia de Number Needed To Treat and Investigation of a Large Kindred with a Characterized Frutos, and Dahlback Relative Risk Reduction Gene Defect Management of Refractory The Incidence of Venous Thromboembolism in Family Middeldorp, Henkens, Neurocardiogenic Syncope Members of Patients with Factor V Leiden Mutation and Koopman, van Pampus, Venous Thrombosis and others Hypertriglyceridemia and Atherosclerosis Famciclovir for the Suppression of Symptomatic and Schacker, Hu, Koelle, Asymptomatic Herpes Simplex Virus Reactivation in Zeh, Saltzman, Boon, Where’s the Bias? H1V-Infected Persons. A Double-Blind, Placebo- Shaughnessy, Barnum, Book Notes 79 Controlled Trial and Corey BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS Hydroxyurea-Induced Leg Ulceration in 14 Patients Best and others Bilateral Sampling of the Internal Jugular Vein To Doppman, Oldfield, Distinguish between Mechanisms of Adrenocorticotropic and Nieman Hormone-Dependent Cushing Syndrome ACADEMIA AND CLINIC Test-Treatment Strategies for Patients Suspected of Nichol, Dennis, Steere, Having Lyme Disease: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and others UPDATE Update in Nephrology 49 Goldfarb and Henrich MEDICINE AND PUBLIC ISSUES Competing Practice Guidelines: Using Cost- 56 Granata and Hillman Effectiveness Analysis To Make Optimal Decisions EDITORIALS Pertussis in Adults Cherry Masking, Blinding, and Peer Review: The Blind Leading Davidoff the Blinded ON BEING A PATIENT Wacker Revisited MEDICAL WRITINGS Phantom Limb: From Medical Knowledge to Folk Wisdom Herman and Back Annals of Internal Medicine + Index to Volume 128 V Annals of Internal Medicine Volume 128 Number 2 15 January 1998 ARTICLES Ad Libitum 95 Body Weight, Weight Change, and Risk for Hypertension Huang, Willett, Letters 155 in Women Manson, and others Diagnosing Syncope Effect of HMGcoA Reductase Inhibitors on Stroke. Bucher, Griffith, and Extramedullary Plasmacytoma: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized, Controlled Trials Guyatt A Localized or Systemic Disease? Difficulty and Dependence: Two Components of the Gill, Robison, and Vitamin E for Chronic Hepatitis B Disability Continuum among Community-Living Tinetti Older Persons Hyperadrenocorticism in a Patient with Esophageal Squamous-Cell Effectiveness of Computer-Generated Reminders for Dexter, Wolinsky, Carcinoma Increasing Discussions about Advance Directives Gramelispacher, Zhou, and Completion of Advance Directive Forms. Eckert, Waisburd, and Tensions in the Racial Integration A Randomized, Controlled Trial Tierney of Health Care, Then and Now BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS Book Notes 159 Serious Hepatitis A: An Analysis of Patients Hospitalized Willner, Uhl, Howard, Currents 161 during an Urban Epidemic in the United States Williams, Riely, and Waters Pulmonary Artery Catheters on Trial Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer and Increased Risk Ahsan and Neugut for Esophageal Carcinoma Hypertension Guidelines Promote Aggressive Therapy ACADEMIA AND CLINIC The Effectiveness of Intensive Training for Residents in Smith, Lyles, Mettler, Interviewing. A Randomized, Controlled Study and others NIH CONFERENCE The Pathophysiologic Roles of Interleukin-6 in Human Papanicolaou, Wilder, Disease and others EDITORIALS Warning Signs along the Road to Functional Dependency Reuben Dialogue: The Core Clinical Skill Duffy POSITION PAPER The Physician Workforce and Financing of Graduate American College of Medical Education Physicians ON BEING A DOCTOR The Time of the Three Dynasties: Reflections on Hergott Imbalance in the Practice of Medicine ON BEING A PATIENT When Doctors Get Sick Spiro and Mandell VI Annals of Internal Medicine + Index to Volume 128 Annals of Internal Medicine Volume 128 Number 3 1 February 1998 ARTICLES Ad Libitum 185 United Kingdom Prospective Diabetes Study 24: United Kingdom Letters 242 A 6-Year, Randomized, Controlled Trial Comparing Prospective Diabetes Total Cholesterol and Death from Sulfonylurea, Insulin, and Metformin Therapy in Patients Study Group Coronary Heart Disease in Older with Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes That Could Not Be Persons Controlled with Diet Therapy Ultrasonography of Leg Veins in Metabolic Effects of Troglitazone Monotherapy in Type 2 Maggs, Buchanan, Patients Suspected of Having Diabetes Mellitus. A Randomized, Double-Blind, Burant, Cline, Pulmonary Embolism Placebo-Controlled Trial and others Clinical Experience and Increased Rate of Fractures and Severe Kyphosis: Aris, Renner, Winders, Evidence-Based Medicine Sequelae of Living into Adulthood with Cystic Fibrosis Buell, and others Low-Level Teicoplanin Resistance Renal Dysfunction after Myocardial Revascularization: Mora Mangano, and Heteroresistance to Risk Factors, Adverse Outcomes, and Hospital Resource Diamondstone, Vancomycin Utilization Ramsay, and others BRIEF COMMUNICATION Book Notes 251 Association of Low Paco, with Central Sleep Apnea and Javaheri and Corbett Ventricular Arrhythmias in Ambulatory Patients with Stable Heart Failure UPDATE Update in Pulmonary Medicine Niederman and Peters REVIEW Management of Chronic Stable Angina: Medical Therapy, Solomon and Gersh Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty, and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery. Lessons from the Randomized Trials MEDICINE AND PUBLIC ISSUES Internists’ and Surgeons’ Attitudes toward Guns and 224 Cassel, Nelson, Smith, Firearm Injury Prevention Schwab, and others EDITORIALS Rheumatoid Arthritis: Anticytokine Therapies on the Koopman and Horizon Moreland Reframing Gun Violence Davidoff POSITION PAPER Firearm Injury Prevention American College of Physicians MEDICAL WRITINGS In the Name of Medicine Berkenwald Annals of Internal Medicine + Index to Volume 128 VII Annals of Internal Medicine Volume 128 Number 4 15 February 1998 ARTICLES Ad Libitum Alendronate Prevents Postmenopausal Bone Loss in McClung, Clemmesen, Itch Women without Osteoporosis. A Double-Blind, Daifotis, Gilchrist, For Dr. Williams Randomized, Controlled Trial Eisman, and others The Cracking of the Mold The Role of Carotid Arterial Intima—Media Thickness in Hodis, Mack, LaBree, Predicting Clinical Coronary Events Selzer, Liu, and others Letters 319 Relation of Factor V Leiden Genotype to Risk for Acute Ryan, Crowther, Communicating End-of-Life Deep Venous Thrombosis after Joint Replacement Surgery Ginsberg, and Francis Decisions Screening for Chlamydia trachomatis in Asymptomatic Howell, Quinn, and Indinavir and Interstitial Nephritis Women Attending Family Planning Clinics. Gaydos A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Three Strategies Light Microscopy of Indinavir Urinary Crystals BRIEF COMMUNICATION Transjugular Intrahepatic Porto- The Effect of Estrogen Replacement Therapy on Plasma Best, Berger, Miller, systemic Shunt or Sclerotherapy: Nitric Oxide and Endothelin-1 Levels in Postmenopausal and Lerman Which Would You Choose? Women Locating and Appraising ACADEMIA AND CLINIC Systematic Reviews Physicians as Leaders in Improving Health Care: A New Berwick and Nolan What’s Wrong with This Picture? Series in Annals of Internal Medicine Preoperative Echocardiography for Understanding Medical Systems Nolan Noncardiac Surgery CLINICAL REVIEW Oral Immunosuppressive Therapy for Acquired Hemophilia Clinical Profile and Outcome in 52 Patients with Cardiac Yeo, Malouf, Oh, and Pseudoaneurysm Seward Book Notes 331 PERSPECTIVE Currents 333 The Care of Persons with Recent Sexual Exposure to HIV Katz and Gerberding Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections: New Theories, Old Remedies EDITORIAL Evidence-Based Medicine Gaining Bone Mass, Bone Loss, and Osteoporosis Prophylaxis Heaney Supporters ON BEING A DOCTOR Heartsick McMurray VILE. Annals of Internal Medicine + Index to Volume 128 Annals of Internal Medicine Volume 128 Number 5 1 March 1998 ARTICLES Ad Libitum 406 Screening for Hemochromatosis and Iron Deficiency in Niederau, Niederau, Letters 408 Employees and Primary Care Patients in Western Lange, Littauer, Intensity of Anticoagulation To Germany Abdel-Jalil, and others Prevent Stroke in Patients with Lack of Cardiac Manifestations among Patients with Sangha, Phillips, and Atrial Fibrillation Previously Treated Lyme Disease others Mycobacterium genavense and The Consequences of Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment of Reid, Schoen, Evans, Cutaneous Disease in AIDS Lyme Disease: An Observational Study Rosenberg, and Dermatologic Disease during Horwitz Interferon-a Therapy for Chronic Defective Expression of Fas Messenger RNA and Fas Spinozzi, Fizzotti, Viral Hepatitis Receptor on Pulmonary T Cells from Patients with Agea, Piattoni, Effect of Previous Corticosteroid Asthma Droetto, Russano, and Treatment on Temporal Artery others Biopsy Results BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS Sister Mary Joseph’s Nodule Prevalence of Genetic Hemochromatosis in a Cohort of Conte, Manachino, Italian Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Colli, and others Book Notes 415 Severe Hyperbilirubinemia after Creation of Transjugular Rouillard, Bass, Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts: Natural History and Roberts, Doherty, Gee, Predictors of Outcome Bacchetti, and Somberg UPDATE Update in Endocrinology Schlechte and Kreisberg REVIEW Thyroxine Suppressive Therapy in Patients with Nodular 386 Gharib and Mazzaferri Thyroid Disease MEDICINE AND PUBLIC ISSUES Ethical Practice in Managed Care: A Dose of Realism 395 Hall and Berenson EDITORIAL Medical Treatment of Benign Thyroid Nodules: Have We 403 Ridgway Defined a Benefit? MEDICAL WRITINGS On First Looking into Cabot’s Differential Diagnosis Schwartz Annals of Internal Medicine + Index to Volume 128 IX Annals of Internal Medicine Volume 128 Number 6 15 March 1998 ARTICLES Ad Libitum 503 The Relation of Physical Activity to Risk for Symptomatic Leitzmann and others Letters 504 Gallstone Disease in Men Monitoring Warfarin Therapy in Unfavorable Effects of Passive Smoking on Aortic Function Stefanadis and others Patients with Lupus in Men Anticoagulants Awkward Moments in Patient—Physician Communication Epstein, Morse, Intravenous Amiodarone for about HIV Risk Frankel, and others Arrhythmia Management Thalidomide in the Treatment of the Mucocutaneous Hamuryudan, Mat, Ki-Lymphoma and Interleukin-6 Lesions of the Behcet Syndrome. A Randomized, Saip, Ozyazgan, Siva, Ethnic Variation in Response to Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial Yurdakul, and others Alcohol BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS Bone Density and Vitamin D Standardized Hemodialysis Prescriptions Promote Ifudu, Mayers, Intoxication Inadequate Treatment in Patients with Large Body Mass Matthew, and others Book Notes 512 Response of Lymphoepithelial Parotid Cysts to Craven, Duncan, Antiretroviral Treatment in HIV-Infected Adults Stram, O’Hara, and Currents 513 others Is HIV Prophylaxis Effective for ACADEMIA AND CLINIC Sexual Exposures? Building Measurement and Data Collection into Medical Nelson, Splaine, U.S. Dialysis Survival Strategy Practice Batalden, and Plume REVIEW Epidemiology of Oral Contraceptives and Cardiovascular Chasan-Taber and Disease Stampfer PERSPECTIVE Cholesterol and Violence: Is There a Connection? Golomb HISTORY OF MEDICINE Introduction of the Blood Pressure Cuff into U.S. Medical Practice: Technology and Skilled Practice EDITORIALS Behcet Disease and the Emergence of Thalidomide Ehrlich Medicine and Commerce. i: Is Managed Care a Davidoff “Monstrous Hybrid”? ON BEING A PATIENT Venus on the Right Porter ON BEING A DOCTOR The Coding Audit Sumkin X Annals of Internal Medicine + Index to Volume 128