Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine - Volume 66, Number 5 & 6

Volume 66 Number 5 & 6
October/November 1999

DEAN'S LECTURE

The Telomere and Telomerase: How Do They Interact? 292

Elizabeth Blackburn

GRAND ROUNDS

Medical Education Grand Rounds 301

Scott H. Barnett and Alex Stagnaro-Green

Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine 303

Andy Jagoda, Kevin Baumlin, Lisa Raacke, and Sheldon Jacobson

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract Helps Prevent Bacterial 310

Infections in the Early Postoperative Period after Liver Transplant Sukru Emre, Anthony Sebastian, Larry Chodoff, Patrizia Boccagni, Burt Meyers, Patricia A. Sheiner, Eytan Mor, Stephen R. Guy, Evren Atillasoy, Myron E. Schwartz, and Charles M. Miller

Pig Organs for Transplantation into Humans: A Jewish View 314

Fred Rosner

Hickman-Broviac Catheter-Related Infections in Children with Malignancies 320

Sotiris C. Stamou, Helen C. Maltezou, Apostolos Pourtsidis, Theodora Psaltopoulou, Constantine Skondras and Theodore Aivazoglou

CASE REPORTS

Adenocarcinoma of the Urachus Masquerading as a Right Lower Quadrant 327

Mass: A Case Report Stanley Zaslau, Michael E. Gribetz, Pamela D. Unger, Anthony J. Vine, and Lester B. Katz

Transient Headache and Impaired Vision after Intravenous Thyrotropin- 330

Releasing Hormone in a Patient with Pituitary Macroadenoma Issac Sachmechi, Rachelle N. Bitton, Dineshkumar Patel, and Bruce S. Schneider

STUDENT CORNER

Souvenir from the Hamptons - A Case of Cutaneous Larva Migrans of Six 334

Months' Duration Adam C. Esser, Irwin Kantor, and Allen N. Sapadin

Intussusception in Adults 336

Nina Desai, Michael G. Wayne, Peter J. Taub, Marc A. Levitt, Renee Spiegel, and Unsup Kim

DERMATOLOGY NOTES

Extramammary Paget's Disease Jacob Baral and Mark Lebwohl 341

CLASSICS IN MEDICINE

Some Recent Advances in the Physiology of the Anterior Pituitary 343

reprinted from Journal of the Mount Sinai Hospital 1934-1935; 1:28-71 James B. Collip

ABSTRACTS

Research in Medicine 1999 Mount Sinai School of Medicine 365

Alcohol Research.......365
Cardiology.............366
Endocrinology..........371
Gastroenterology.......374
Geriatrics.............375
Hematology.............375
Immunobiology..........378
Infectious Diseases....379
Internal Medicine......379
Liver..................385
Medical Oncology.......387
Pulmonary..............389
Queens Hospital Center.394
Psychiatry.............391
Radiology..............392
Rheumatology...........392
Spinal Cord............393
Surgery................393
Thrombosis.............393

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Author, Subject, Title Index to Volume 66

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The Telomere and Telomerase: How Do They Interact?	292
Elizabeth Blackburn

Medical Education Grand Rounds	301
Scott H. Barnett and Alex Stagnaro-Green
Emergency Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine	303
Andy Jagoda, Kevin Baumlin, Lisa Raacke, and Sheldon Jacobson

Selective Decontamination of the Digestive Tract Helps Prevent Bacterial	310
Infections in the Early Postoperative Period after Liver Transplant Sukru Emre, Anthony Sebastian, Larry Chodoff, Patrizia Boccagni, Burt Meyers, Patricia A. Sheiner, Eytan Mor, Stephen R. Guy, Evren Atillasoy, Myron E. Schwartz, and Charles M. Miller
Pig Organs for Transplantation into Humans: A Jewish View	314
Fred Rosner
Hickman-Broviac Catheter-Related Infections in Children with Malignancies	320
Sotiris C. Stamou, Helen C. Maltezou, Apostolos Pourtsidis, Theodora Psaltopoulou, Constantine Skondras and Theodore Aivazoglou

Adenocarcinoma of the Urachus Masquerading as a Right Lower Quadrant	327
Mass: A Case Report Stanley Zaslau, Michael E. Gribetz, Pamela D. Unger, Anthony J. Vine, and Lester B. Katz
Transient Headache and Impaired Vision after Intravenous Thyrotropin-	330
Releasing Hormone in a Patient with Pituitary Macroadenoma Issac Sachmechi, Rachelle N. Bitton, Dineshkumar Patel, and Bruce S. Schneider

Souvenir from the Hamptons - A Case of Cutaneous Larva Migrans of Six	334
Months' Duration Adam C. Esser, Irwin Kantor, and Allen N. Sapadin

Intussusception in Adults	336
Nina Desai, Michael G. Wayne, Peter J. Taub, Marc A. Levitt, Renee Spiegel, and Unsup Kim

Extramammary Paget's Disease Jacob Baral and Mark Lebwohl	341

Some Recent Advances in the Physiology of the Anterior Pituitary	343
reprinted from Journal of the Mount Sinai Hospital 1934-1935; 1:28-71 James B. Collip