Abstract:
:The decline in testosterone with age has been associated with specific physical changes that affect quality of life and life expectancy, although a cause-and-effect relationship is yet to be established. While female menopause is rapid and well described, "male menopause" or androgen decline in older men is gradual and marked by nonspecific symptoms. This makes diagnosis of true testosterone deficiency and prediction of response to testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) challenging. This article reviews androgen decline in men, focusing on those over age 40, and covers symptoms, indications, contraindications,diagnosis, treatments, and the risks and benefits of treatment [corrected].
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Cleve Clin J Medjournal_title
Cleveland Clinic journal of medicineauthors
McGill JJ,Shoskes DA,Sabanegh ESdoi
10.3949/ccjm.79a.12010subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-11-01 00:00:00pages
797-806issue
11eissn
0891-1150issn
1939-2869pii
79/11/797journal_volume
79pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract::An over-the-counter at-home test for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has been approved and will likely be available soon. It is intended to decrease the percentage of HIV-infected people unaware of their infection (estimated at 18% of the 1.2 million people infected in the United States). Since early and ...
journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3949/ccjm.79a.12128
更新日期:2012-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Glomerulonephritis (GN) is a common manifestation of the antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated systemic vasculitides (AASV), which include granulomatosis with polyangiitis and microscopic polyangiitis. The level of renal involvement at presentation is highly predictive of survival and should be assessed early...
journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
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doi:10.3949/ccjm.79.s3.05
更新日期:2012-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3949/ccjm.77a.09096
更新日期:2010-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Cancer patients and their families often ask their primary care physicians if a new treatment reported in the news can help them. Physicians familiar with the long and complicated process of oncologic clinical trials are in the best position to assess the potential for clinical benefit from a new antineoplastic therap...
journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
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doi:10.3949/ccjm.69.5.368
更新日期:2002-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Eating disorders are common in adolescents and young adults, including those with a history of overweight or obesity, and are associated with numerous systemic sequelae. Understanding the differences in presentation between these patients and those who have a more classic anorexia nervosa phenotype is critical to ensu...
journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
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doi:10.3949/ccjm.87a.19034
更新日期:2020-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Interleukin 1 (IL-1) is a potential target of therapy in COVID-19 during the severe respiratory-inflammatory phase ("cytokine release syndrome"), when pulmonary macrophages are hyperactivated, releasing IL-1 and other cytokines. Preliminary evidence indicates that anakinra and canakinumab, drugs that block the action ...
journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
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doi:10.3949/ccjm.87a.ccc044
更新日期:2020-07-09 00:00:00
abstract::Non-Q-wave infarction is associated with a significant incidence of infarction and death. We followed 52 patients who underwent percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) within three months of non-Q-wave myocardial infarction. Thirty-eight patients had single-vessel disease, 12 had double-vessel disease, a...
journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
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doi:10.3949/ccjm.56.2.141
更新日期:1989-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3949/ccjm.60.6.479
更新日期:1993-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3949/ccjm.84.s1.04
更新日期:2017-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3949/ccjm.74.12.897
更新日期:2007-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Antibiotics can be effective against acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but with bacterial resistance to multiple antibiotics increasing worldwide, appropriate antibiotic selection is critical. Categorizing patients with acute exacerbations according to age, number of ...
journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3949/ccjm.67.9.625
更新日期:2000-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Development of medical devices requires interaction between physicians and industry that is considerably more intimate than that in pharmaceutical development. Progress in procedure-based medicine would be stalled if this collaboration were eliminated. This degree of interaction, however, creates conflicts of interest...
journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3949/ccjm.74.suppl_2.s26
更新日期:2007-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3949/ccjm.73.electronic_suppl_1.s13
更新日期:2006-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3949/ccjm.83.s1.05
更新日期:2016-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::The metabolic syndrome--the cluster of obesity, impaired fasting glucose, elevated triglycerides, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and hypertension--may not be a "real" syndrome in the strict sense. It can, however, still be a useful concept if it prompts a physician to look for and treat additional risk fact...
journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3949/ccjm.74.3.199
更新日期:2007-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3949/ccjm.69.4.289
更新日期:2002-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Mediastinal extension of pancreatic pseudocysts has caused rare cases of cardiac compression, but to our knowledge, congestive heart disease due to cardiac compression by a pancreatic pseudocyst has never been reported. SUMMARY:A 48-year-old man presented with dyspnea, swelling of both lower limbs, left-sid...
journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3949/ccjm.61.2.141
更新日期:1994-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3949/ccjm.67.5.341
更新日期:2000-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::Circadian variations have been observed for a number of hemodynamic and cardiovascular events including heart rate, systemic blood pressure, coronary artery blood flow, ischemic cerebrovascular accidents, myocardial ischemia, myocardial infarction, and sudden cardiac death. In addition, circadian variations in platele...
journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3949/ccjm.56.7.676
更新日期:1989-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Elevated serum urate levels are recognized as leading to gouty arthritis, tophi formation, and uric acid kidney stones. While serum urate elevations have long been associated with renal disease, they are not usually considered to have a causal role in kidney dysfunction. However, recent epidemiologic studies have iden...
journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3949/ccjm.75.suppl_5.s13
更新日期:2008-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3949/ccjm.87a.ccc020
更新日期:2020-05-14 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3949/ccjm.76a.gr005
更新日期:2009-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3949/ccjm.77.s3.12
更新日期:2010-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3949/ccjm.58.6.477
更新日期:1991-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3949/ccjm.69.2.104
更新日期:2002-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3949/ccjm.66.1.41
更新日期:1999-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Nicotinic acid, widely used to lower serum cholesterol levels, may rarely cause cholestatic jaundice. SUMMARY:A 61-year-old white man with hypercholesterolemia complained of marked pruritus and became jaundiced after taking 3.0 g of crystalline nicotinic acid daily for 13 months. His total serum bilirubin l...
journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3949/ccjm.61.1.70
更新日期:1994-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Several theories have been put forth to explain the pathogenesis of syringomyelia, the formation of longitudinal, fluid-filled cavities within the spinal cord. Chief among them is Gardner's hydrodynamic theory, widely accepted for more than two decades. Gardner attributed the genesis of syringomyelia to craniospinal p...
journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3949/ccjm.59.4.373
更新日期:1992-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Research into heart rate variability (HRV) and respiration over the past 150 years has led to the insight that HRV with deep breathing (HRVdb) is a highly sensitive measure of cardiovagal or parasympathetic cardiac function. This sensitivity makes HRVdb an important part of the battery of cardiovascular autonomic func...
journal_title:Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3949/ccjm.76.s2.08
更新日期:2009-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Evidence is mounting that obstructive sleep apnea causes or contributes to many chronic medical diseases, and that treatment with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) often improves concomitant diseases. The author reviews the association of obstructive sleep apnea with arterial hypertension, pulmonary hypertens...
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.3949/ccjm.74.1.72
更新日期:2007-01-01 00:00:00