December 2002

Editorial Board
Published in issue: December 2002
i

Guidelines for Contributors
Published in issue: December 2002
ii

PERSPECTIVE

Perspective: Shifting Sands. What Gives?
• Karl T. Weber
Published in issue: December 2002
p291-295

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

The Role of the Renin-Angiotensin System in Cholesterol and Puromycin Mediated Renal Injury
• Siddhartha Ghosh,
• Domenic Sica,
• Anton C. Schoolwerth,
• Itaf Fakhry,
• Todd W.B. Gehr,
• Richard J. Quigg,
• Mark Haas
Published in issue: December 2002
p296-304
Prenatal HIV Counseling, Testing, and Antiretroviral Prophylaxis by Obstetric and Family Medicine Providers in Alabama
• Stacy A. Nichols,
• Madhav P. Bhatta,
• Jennifer Lewis,
• Sten H. Vermund
Published in issue: December 2002
p305-309
Smoking and the Genetics of Signal Transduction: An Association Study on Retinopathy in Type 1 Diabetes
• A. Magrini,
• A. Bergamaschi,
• N. Bottini,
• M. Nicotra,
• E. Cosmi,
• E. Bottini
Published in issue: December 2002
p310-313

CARDIOLOGY GRAND ROUNDS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL

The Antioxidant Vitamins and Coronary Heart Disease: Part I. Basic Science Background and Clinical Observational Studies
• George A. Stouffer,
• Richard G. Sheahan,
• Steven J. Riley,
• George A. Stouffer
Published in issue: December 2002
p314-320

CASE REPORTS

Survival with Serum Sodium Level of 180 mEq/L: Permanent Disorientation to Place and Time
• Joaquin Gomez-Daspet,
• Lucinda Elko,
• Dmitry Grebenev,
• David L. Vesely
Published in issue: December 2002
p321-325

A Multihormonal Pituitary Adenoma with Growth Hormone and Adrenocorticotropic Hormone Production, Causing Acromegaly and Cushing Disease
• Kazunori Kageyama,
• Takeshi Nigawara,
• Ken Terui,
• Jiichi Anzai,
• Satoru Sakihara,
• Toshihiro Suda,
• Yoshimasa Kamata
Published in issue: December 2002
p326-330

A Case of Reversible Dilated Cardiomyopathy after α-Interferon Therapy in a Patient with Renal Cell Carcinoma
• Akiko Kuwata,
• Masuo Ohashi,
• Masaya Sugiyama,
• Ryuzo Ueda,
• Yasuaki Dohi
Published in issue: December 2002
p331-334

Two Patients with Arterial Thromboembolism among 311 Patients with Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas
• Ami Schattner,
• Avraham Klepfish,
• Adi Shani,
• Monica Huszar
Published in issue: December 2002
p335-338

Intravascular Lymphomatosis Presenting As Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome
• Madhuri Yalamanchili,
• Sheela Prabhu,
• Perry Bradstreet,
• James Walsh,
• Iftikhar Chouhdry
Published in issue: December 2002
p339-341

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Rapid Communication: Acute Renal Failure Associated with Tenofovir: Evidence of Drug-Induced Nephrotoxicity
• Steven Coca,
• Mark A. Perazella
Published in issue: December 2002
p342-344

Author Index
Published in issue: December 2002
p345-347

Subject Index
Published in issue: December 2002
p348-352