Clinical Correlations

The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine


Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner-3/21/22

  •  Bellevue Inpatient: What is the deWinter pattern seen on electrocardiogram?
  • NYU Brooklyn: In patients with chronic leg edema, does compression therapy reduce the risk for cellulitis?
  • VA Inpatient: Is there a difference in efficacy among the three loop diuretics (furosemide, torsemide, or bumetanide) in treating people with heart failure?

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Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner- 3/14/22

  •  NYU IMA Clinic: Can we use point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) to measure the jugular venous pressure (JVP)? (thank you to Sam Maidman on teaching elective)
  • Gouverneur Clinic: Help my patient has morning sickness but I’m not an OB/GYN! (thanks to Gaby Mayer and the Primary Care Digest!)
  •  NYU Tisch/Kimmel: What is the mechanism behind negative acute phase reactants?

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Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner- 3/7/22

  •  NYU IMA Clinic:  When testing for H. pylori, which acid suppression agents should be avoided in order to optimize diagnostic yield? (thanks to Sam Maidman on teaching elective, contributing on behalf of our new clinic site!) 
  • VA Inpatient: How should we interpret results for patients with diarrhea who have a negative C.diff toxin but a positive PCR test result? 
  •  NYU BK: How does Lemierre Syndrome lead to septic pulmonary emboli?

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Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner- 2/28/22

  •  Bellevue Inpatient: When should we cover for anaerobes in community-acquired aspiration pneumonia?
  • VA Inpatient: What is the gamma gap and should its elevation alone trigger additional clinical workup? (Shoutout to the Dolgin team!)
  • Tisch-Kimmel Inpatient: What is the cause of hyponatremia in legionella pneumonia?

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Chiefs’ Inquiry Corner – 2/23/22

  •  NYU BK: Do we start statins for cutaneous xanthomas with normal triglycerides or mild dyslipidemia?
  • Bellevue Outpatient: How can we identify patients who have an acute versus chronic hepatitis C infection, and how does this inform the subsequent management?
  • Gouverneur Outpatient: “TB or not TB? That is the screening question” (thanks to our Primary Care Digest!)

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