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

Volume 71 Number 2
March 2004

GRAND ROUNDS
Renal Artery Disease: Diagnosis and Management	73
Jeffrey W. Olin
Induction of Immunity against Human Cytomegalovirus	86
Thomas Bennekov, David Spector, and Erik Langhoff
The Multidisciplinary Approach to Hemodialysis Vascular Access at The Mount Sinai Hospital	94
Joseph A. Vassalotti, Abigail Falk, Victoria Teodorescu, and Jaime Uribarri
Current Medical Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension	103
Roxana Sulica and Michael Poon
Neurohormonal Antagonism in Heart Failure: What Is the Optimal Strategy?	115
Jonathan D. Sackner-Bernstein and David Hart

GENERAL ARTICLES
Intestinal Metastases from Renal Cell Carcinoma: A Rare Cause of Intestinal Obstruction and Bleeding	127
George M. Pavlakis, George H. Sakorafas, and George K. Anagnostopoulos
Ectopic Intrathoracic Thyroid: Case Report	131
George H. Sakorafas, Athanasios Vlachos, George Tolumis, George A. Kassaras, George K. Anagnostopoulos, and Dimitrios Gorgogiannis
If I Were Dean: A Challenge to New Medical Students	134
Jeremy Hugh Baron
Recombinant Interferon Gamma lb and Low Dose Steroid in Two Pediatric Cases of Nonspecific Interstitial Pneumonia	139
Donato Rigante, Angelica Bibiana, Delogu, Gilda Federico, Gabriella De Rosa, and Achille Stabile