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 …
Category: Systems
Clinical Correlations
The Polymyxins: Why am I using them all the time, and what are they?
December 8, 2010
By Jon-Emile S Kenny
Faculty Peer Reviewed
A 65-year-old female with locally advanced rectal cancer is admitted to the ICU, hypotensive and febrile. Her PICC line is removed and blood …
Branched Chain Amino Acid Supplementation for Patients with Cirrhosis
December 3, 2010
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 …
Kayexalate: What is it and does it work?
December 1, 2010
By Todd Cutler, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
A 62-year-old male is hospitalized with an acute congestive heart failure exacerbation. On hospital day three, the patient’s symptoms have significantly …
Proton Pump Inhibitors 2.0
November 26, 2010
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 …
Grand Rounds: Influenza Pandemic
November 18, 2010
Summary by Lakshmi Tummala, MD
The Medical Grand Rounds lecture on October 6, 2010 titled “Influenza 2010: Update after the 2009 Pandemic was presented by Dr. Alicia Fry, M.D., MPH …
Mystery Quiz- The Answer
November 13, 2010Dana Clutter, MD
Edited by Vivian Hayashi MD and Robert Smith MD, Mystery Quiz Section Editors
Faculty peer reviewed
The answer to the mystery quiz is bacillary angiomatosis (BA). BA is a disease that most frequently affects individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and typically …
Mystery Quiz
November 10, 2010Dana Clutter, MD
Edited by Vivian Hayashi MD and Robert Smith MD, Mystery Quiz Section Editors
A 25 year old woman infected with HIV presents to an HIV/AIDS clinic in Kampala, Uganda, for evaluation of cutaneous lesions on her face, arms and back. Aside from the disfiguring nature of her lesions, she …