By Robert Gianotti, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Case: Mr. T is a 32-year-old male being treated by the oncology service for Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. You are the night float intern covering overnight when …
Category: Systems
Clinical Correlations
From The Archives: Why is Syphilis Still Sensitive to Penicillin?
January 13, 2012
Please enjoy this post from the Archives, first published on July 30, 2009
By Sam Rougas MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
It seems that every week a new article in a major newspaper is reporting what …
Why Are Asthma Patients Noncompliant With Their Inhalers?
January 11, 2012
By Kristen Mattei
Faculty Peer Reviewed
I distinctly remember being 9 years old, sitting in my doctor’s office after a cold left me struggling for breath, doubled over and wheezing, when he …
Does Perioperative Smoking Cessation Improve outcomes?
January 6, 2012
By Benjamin Wu, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Mr. T is a 53-year-old man, with history significant for cholelithiasis. He decides to have an elective cholecystectomy after years of biliary colic. Mr. T …
What Is the Significance of Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance (MGUS)?
December 22, 2011
By Maryann Kwa, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Clinical Case:
A.D. is a healthy 65-year-old African American male with no prior medical history who presents to his primary care physician for an annual check …
Myths and Realities: The Fishy Truth about Mercury Toxicity
December 17, 2011
By Nicole Learned
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In an age when patients obtain medical news from the media, and celebrities initiate powerful health trends, clinicians have to be prepared …
Mystery Quiz- The Answer
December 14, 2011Vivian Hayashi MD and Robert Smith MD, Mystery Quiz Section Editors
The answer to the mystery quiz is Kaposi’s sarcoma. The CXR shows bilateral confluent airspaceopacities which have a wide differential diagnosis in this case. The CT narrows the differential. Specifically, the opacities appear to emanate from the central hilar …
Mystery Quiz
December 9, 2011Vivian Hayashi MD and Robert Smith MD, Mystery Quiz Section Editors
The patient is a 52 year old African-American man who presented with breathlessness and weight loss over one month along with watery stools during the week prior to admission. He had a history of untreated HIV infection, a CD4 cell …