To the Editor: Computer reminders such as the one described by Kucher and colleagues (March 10 issue)¹ can draw attention to important situations, since medical errors frequently occur when physicians are busy, tired, or distracted.²,³ The real challenge,...

To the Editor: In the report by Rutkowski et al. (March 10 issue)¹ regarding treatment of early childhood medulloblastoma with postoperative chemotherapy alone, 20 of 43 children under the age of three years (46.5 percent) had desmoplastic ...

To the Editor: Verhagen and Sauer (March 10 issue)¹ emphasize that euthanasia is becoming acceptable medical practice for infants in the Netherlands in whom hopeless and unbearable suffering is present. Doctors are not all-knowing, but pediatric ...

To the Editor: The medical mystery in the April 7 issue¹ involved a radiograph (Figure 1) in a patient who had undergone four lifesaving procedures between 1949 and 2002. The radiograph shows remnants of a therapeutic pneumothorax for pulmonary ...

To the Editor: Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy is a fatal autosomal dominant disease caused by amyloidogenic genetic variants of transthyretin. The liver is the predominant source of circulating transthyretin, and liver transplantation is the only ...

To the Editor: Liver transplantation is considered to be an appropriate therapeutic option for hemophilia complicated by cirrhosis.¹ Correction of deficiencies of factor VIII and factor IX by liver transplantation is well known.² Factor XI deficiency is ...

This second edition of Pulmonary Circulation is timely. Nine years have elapsed since its first edition in 1996, years in which we have witnessed such major scientific advances as the description of the human genome (2001) and, directly relevant to the ...

The lung is exceptional in that pathologic changes can be seen clearly in radiographs because of the air–tissue contrast. When bilateral diffuse, ill-defined shadows are seen, one begins to speculate on the cause — infection, inflammation, or neoplasm? ...

Angiographic observations in the early 1980s confirmed that acute coronary thrombosis was the proximate cause of acute myocardial infarction — seminal studies that led to revolutionary treatments for the recanalization of occluded vessels. However, during ...

This book pays tribute to the adage “Hypertension goes with the kidney” by examining the relationship between renal function and blood pressure, from a perspective that is primarily clinical and therapeutic but is also grounded in epidemiology and ...

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Disease in Three Communities Original Article, N Engl J Med 2005:352;1436-1444.. In the Abstract on page 1436, the Methods and Results sections should have referred to “community-associated” infection, rather ...

Prevention of Hepatitis B with the Hepatitis B Vaccine Clinical Practice, N Engl J Med 2004:351;2832-2838.. The brand name Pediarix (rather than Pediatrix) should have appeared in the right-hand column of page 2833, in lines 3 to 4 under the heading ...

Modification of Human Hearing Loss by Plasma-Membrane Calcium Pump PMCA2 Original Article, N Engl J Med 2005:352;1557-1564.. On page 1557, lines 7 through 9 of the Summary should have read, “V586M was detected in two unrelated persons with increased ...

Outcomes Associated with a Trial of Labor after Prior Cesarean Delivery Correspondence, N Engl J Med 2005:352;1718-1720.. In the letter by Smith, lines 18 through 20 of the first paragraph should have read, “. . . the numbers of infants who had a five-...