The Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine - Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Volume 70 Number 3
May 2003

Theme Issue
Ethics
Daniel A. Moros, Rosamond Rhodes and Lewis Burrows, guest editors

Introduction	139
Daniel A. Moros, Rosamond Rhodes and Lewis Burrows	139
Risks Benefits, and Quality of Life	141
George J. Agich	141
Hand Transplantation: Current Status	148
Michael R. Hausman, John Masters, and Albert Panozzo	148
Uterus Transplantation	154
Albert Altchek	154
Laryngeal and Tracheal Transplantation: Ethical Limitations	163
Eric M. Genden and Mark L. Urken	163
Stem Cell Transplantation	166
Steven Fruchtman	166
Candidate Selection Criteria for Living Donor Liver Transplantation	171
Myron Schwartz	171
Trust and Trustworthiness in Organ Transplantation: Good Samaritan and Emotionally Related Living Donors	174
Rosamond Rhodes	174
Panel Discussion	178
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GRAND ROUNDS
Severe Asthma: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Treatment	185
Sally Wenzel	185
Immunologic Factors in Transplant Arteriopathy: Insight from Animal Models	191
Jeffrey D. Alexis, Robert T. Pyo, and Igor Chereshnev
Laboratory Aspects of Tick-Borne Diseases: Lyme, Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis and Babesiosis	197
Maria E. Aguero-Rosenfeld	197

GENERAL ARTICLES
Lyme Disease Trends — Dutchess County, New York, 1992–2000	207
Catherine C.Chow, Andrew S. Evans, Jr., Candace M. Noonan-Toly, Dennis White, Geraldine S. Johnson, Spencer J. Marks, Michael C. Caldwell, and Edward B. Hayes	207