Category: Systems

Clinical Correlations


Understanding the Zoster Vaccine

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 …

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ANCA and Small-Vessel Vasculitis

Class Act Rheumatology 7 min read

By Eugene Friedman, Class of 2012

Faculty Peer Reviewed

The discovery of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) was a serendipitous finding. In 1982, Davies and colleagues published a report detailing their discovery of antibodies that specifically localized to the cytoplasm of neutrophils in …

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Red Yeast Rice: Nature’s Statin?

Cardiology Class Act 6 min read

By Joshua Farhadian

Faculty Peer Reviewed

M. K.  is a 61-year-old female with hypercholesterolemia who presents to clinic complaining of muscle pain and weakness.  She reports that one month after beginning statin therapy she developed myalgias and immediately stopped taking her medication.  She …

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How Does Alcohol Affect Hypertension?

Cardiology Class Act 6 min read

By Benjamin Kenigsberg

Faculty Peer Reviewed

Alcoholic beverages have been part of human culture for thousands of years and cross nearly every political and demographic boundary. Despite this long history, the interaction between alcohol and human health is still poorly understood. This confusion …

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