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

Volume 70 Number 5
October 2003

COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS — 2003
Physicians and Scientists for Your Grandchildren	289
Arthur H. Aufses, Jr.	289

GRAND ROUNDS
Cardiovascular Disease in Women	293
W. Lane Duvall	293
The Electrocardiogram as a Predictor of Left Ventricular Systolic Function: Correlation with Gated SPECT Imaging	306
Milena J. Henzlova and Lori B. Croft	306

GENERAL ARTICLES
Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Mount Sinai Hospital	310
Robert S. Litwak	310
The History of Thoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai	326
Paul A. Kirschner	326
Minimally Invasive Endocrine Surgery	333
Michael D. Addis and William B. Inabnet	333
Results from a Survey Comparing New York Emergency Department Practitioners with their National Colleagues	338
Roland C. Merchant and Reza Keshavarz	338
Controversies in Differentiating Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura and Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome	344
Neelam T. Shah and Jacob H. Rand	344

EDITORIAL Classics in Medicine	352

An Acute Febrile Pleiochromic Anemia with Hyaline Thrombosis of the Terminal Arterioles and Capillaries: An Undescribed Disease	353
Eli Moschcowitz	353