Category: Systems

Clinical Correlations

Mystery Quiz-The Answer

January 10, 2013
Mystery Quiz Pulmonary/Critical Care Radiology 2 min read

Elizabeth Mulaikal MD, Vivian Hayashi MD, Robert Smith MD

The answer to the mystery quiz is pulmonary Mycobacterium kansasii infection. The patient’s clinical presentation of fevers and night sweats suggested an infectious process or B symptoms due to lymphoma. The initial chest radiograph (image 1) demonstrated a left hilar mass which …

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Mystery Quiz

December 21, 2012
Mystery Quiz Pulmonary/Critical Care Radiology 2 min read

Elizabeth Mulaikal MD, Vivian Hayashi MD, Robert Smith MD

The patient is a 55 year old African American male with a 60 pack year history of tobacco use and AIDS,who presented with 1 month of intermittent fevers and weight loss. His most recent CD4 count and viral load were 2/cmm and …

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Kidney Stones and Climate Change

October 10, 2012
Renal 5 min read

By Jeffrey Shyu, MD

Faculty Peer Reviewed

Climate change has been linked to a variety of adverse effects on human health, effects that are expected to worsen in the coming decades [1]. For example, a …

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Olympics and Medicine By The Numbers

October 7, 2012
Medicine by the Numbers Musculoskeletal 3 min read

By Tracey Liebman

Faculty Peer Reviewed

The summer games may be over, but we’re still entertained by the 2012 Olympics! Here are a few medicine-related fun facts about the London Games.

Demographics of Summer 2012 Olympics:

10,500 athletes, 70,000+ volunteers, 20,000 media and journalists, 10+ …

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How to Get Your Patient a Kidney

September 28, 2012
Class Act Renal 6 min read

By Ilina Datkhaeva

Faculty Peer Reviewed

We give hope to patients with advanced kidney disease that a transplant will save them from their Monday, Wednesday, Friday trips to the dialysis unit. But how certain are …

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