By Matthew Auda
Peer Reviewed
Let’s begin with a case. The patient is a 67-year-old female with a past medical history of hypothyroidism referred to your Cardiology Clinic by her primary care physician for cardiovascular disease …
Category: Systems
Clinical Correlations
Atherosclerosis: Understanding the Pathophysiology
October 6, 2023
By Zachary Henig
Peer Reviewed
Atherosclerosis is the primary risk factor for cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of mortality worldwide. To understand the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis, we turn to advances made in molecular biology. Understanding the …
Does Spine Surgery Have a Role in Low Back Pain?
December 14, 2022
By: Michael Moore
Peer Reviewed
“Too many complex back surgeries are being performed and patients are suffering as a result” wrote National Public Radio health science journalist Joanne Silberner in her 2010 article “Surgery May Not …
Evolution and the Vermiform Appendix
July 21, 2022
By Hannah Kopinsky, MD
Peer Reviewed
Appendicitis is the most common reason for urgent surgery related to abdominal pain in the US, with a lifetime incidence of 8.6% for men and 6.7% for women.1 The current standard …
The New Kid on the Block: Heart Failure with Mid-Range Ejection Fraction (HFmrEF)
May 12, 2021
By Pamela Boodram, MD
Peer Reviewed
A 68-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and well controlled type 2 diabetes presents to the ED with five days of progressively worsening dyspnea on exertion, orthopnea, and bilateral …
The Shifting Paradigm of Antimicrobial Research
April 14, 2021
By Avani Kolla
Peer Reviewed
During my trip to India, the “family bonding” reached a new level when I shared my upper respiratory infection with my parents and sister. On day two of my father’s rhinorrhea …
Bedside Rounds: Diagnosing Functional Neurological Disorders
January 5, 2021
By Daniel Gratch, MD
Peer Reviewed
In 150 AD, Greek physician and philosopher Galen wrote of a woman suffering from insomnia: “I was convinced the woman was afflicted not by a bodily disease, but rather that …
A Balancing Act: GLP-1 Receptor Agonists for Non-Diabetic Obesity
December 29, 2020
By Elana Kreiger-Benson
Peer Reviewed
“I’m not actually planning to try it,” the patient whispered to me while I was feeling her radial pulses. We had just finished an extensive conversation with her primary care physician …