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Volume 360:444-445 January 29, 2009 Number 5
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Fighting On
Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D., Nihar R. Desai, M.D., and Philip Green, M.D.

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She had been living with multiple myeloma for more than 7 years before she showed up in our intensive care unit (ICU). It had not been easy, but she had beaten the median survival time by a factor of two or more. Now, late in the game, the myeloma was winning, and the options for this 83-year-old woman were dwindling. Seven months earlier, she had undergone cervical spinal fusion and the placement of rods for instability. Things had not gone well postoperatively, and she had developed renal failure, most likely from the triple hit of her myeloma, wound sepsis, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Dr. Drazen is the editor-in-chief of the Journal. Drs. Desai and Green are residents at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston.



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