By: Aviva Regev
Mr. S is a 68-year old man with longstanding COPD and a 40-pack-year smoking history. He presents to clinic with three days of increasing shortness of breath, and complains that he has been coughing up …
Category: ID
Clinical Correlations
The Treatment For Clostridium Difficile? Transplant!
July 29, 2011
By Andrea Mignatti , MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Among all the new medical therapies, this one will probably not be the most elegant or refined that you will read about. But it just may be …
Understanding the Zoster Vaccine
July 13, 2011
By Michael Cohen
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is well known to the majority of the population. In children, it strikes as varicella (chickenpox), characterized by pruritic, vesicular lesions in different stages of development dispersed over the body. A self-resolving …
Hepatocellular Carcinoma Screening Guidelines and Bellevue’s High-Risk Population
June 22, 2011
By Ramoncito David
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third leading cause of cancer-related death in the world.[1] The prevalence of this fatal disease greatly varies among different nations, due to the fact that almost 80% of cases are secondary to …
How Safe Is That Tattoo?
April 27, 2011
By Farzon A. Nahvi
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Once thought to be exclusively the domain of gang members, prisoners, and those in the military, tattoos are now increasingly popular with the general …
The Porcelain Terror: Can a Toilet Give You Gonorrhea?
April 13, 2011
By Bradley Ching, Class of 2011
Faculty Peer Reviewed
What do every road trip, football game halftime, and trans-continental plane flight have in common? Usually a disgusting toilet paired with the …
Case of the Month: Vertebral Osteomyelitis and Psoas Abscess with Acinetobacter Baumanii: Report of an Unusual Case
April 6, 2011
By Michael C. Brabeck, MD, Adam Davis, MD, and Shaun Rodgers, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Case:
A 56-year-old male was admitted to Bellevue Hospital Center with chronic back pain and …
The Resurgence of Pertussis: Is Lack of Adult Vaccination to Blame?
February 23, 2011
By Ijeoma Ejigiri, Class of 2011
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Whooping cough. 100 day cough. Pertussis. These are the various names for the disease …