By Joshua Smith, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
CASE: A 54-year-old Asian female with no significant past medical history presents to her primary care physician with the complaint of several weeks of …
By Joshua Smith, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
CASE: A 54-year-old Asian female with no significant past medical history presents to her primary care physician with the complaint of several weeks of …
By Nelson Sanchez, MD and Fritz Francois, MD, MS
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Case: A 45-year-old woman presents to your office for an annual check-up. She states that her grandmother was …
By Nicole Leigh Aaronson,MD, Loren Wissner Greene, MD, and Denise Pate, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Introduction:
Whereas there are specially designed diets for patients with hypertension, diabetes, and renal …
By Mary C. Whitman, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are generally considered “safe” medications[1] and are prescribed to over 100 million patients per year for a variety of indications, often for …
Nathaniel Rosso Smilowitz, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Hepatitis B virus is a DNA hepadnavirus affecting 1.25 million people in the United States and nearly 400 million worldwide. The virus is …
By Lara Dunn, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In 1958, EC Heyde published 10 cases of aortic stenosis (AS) and arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) of the gastrointestinal tract in the New …
By Todd Cutler
Faculty Peer Reviewed
A 31-year-old woman presents to the clinic with chronic fatigue. She was diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia when she was 25 years …
By Ramya Srinivasan, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The patient is a 29 year old overweight male presenting to clinic with complaints of reflux symptoms. He says that spicy foods aggravate these symptoms. In addition …