Christina Adaniel MD
Faculty peer reviewed
The country mourned over the loss of Senator Kennedy this week, 15 months after his diagnosis with malignant glioma. As plans for healthcare reform undergo …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Can you offer a liver transplant to a patient with HIV?
August 28, 2009
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Uzma Sarwar MD
Coincident with greater use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), chronic liver disease has become one of the leading causes of death amongst HIV patients. This reflects …
Diseases 2.0: Calcific Uremic Arteriolopathy (CUA)
August 26, 2009
Rebecca Hall MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Diseases 2.0 – Bringing you the latest updates on disease pathophysiology and treatment
Patient S.J. is a 36 year old female with a 20 …
PrimeCuts: Week of August 24th
August 24, 2009
Jon-Emile Kenny
Faculty Reviewed
Roughly 40,000 women die each year in the United States from breast cancer, and nearly 200,000 will be newly diagnosed; we have all been affected by this disease, and this week’s PrimeCuts looks …
CT Colonography-The Future of Colorectal Cancer Screening?
August 21, 2009
Ely R. Felker
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The patient is a 52 year-old white male who presented to his internist for a routine examination. He …
Tales of Survival: Hot Air
August 20, 2009
Bellevue Hospital, the nation’s oldest public hospital and the heart of our residency program, provides unique and unforgettable training for new physicians. It is probably safe to say that every resident who trains at Bellevue graduates with a lifetime of …
Primecuts-This Week in the Journals
August 17, 2009
Ivan Saraiva, MD
Faculty peer reviewed
This week’s edition of PrimeCuts will focus on an old friend, influenza, as well as a couple of other viruses. The novel swine-origin influenza A …
Medicine by the Numbers
August 13, 2009
Elizabeth Gaines MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
$275.50: The cost of routine morning labs at Bellevue in 2008.
Every morning, I sit down with my sign-out and scrawl “N, …