Commentary by Andrew McKinstry MD, PGY-1 (reviewed by Michael Poles, MD, Associate Editor Clinical Correlations, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology)
Hot on the heels of its recommendation in August against routine screening for prostate cancer in men over 75, the US Preventive Services Task Force has issued recommendations against routine …
Commentary by Daniel Egan MD, PGY2
Please also see the clinical vignette presented during last week’sgrand rounds
On Wednesday, September 24, 2008, the NYU Department of Medicine Grand Rounds featured guest speaker Hilary Calvert, …
Commentary by Bani Chander MD, PGY-3 and Reviewed by Laura Evans MD, NYU Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Case presentation:
The patient is a 26 year-old female with long-standing refractory epilepsy, status …
Posted by Vivian Hayashi MD and Robert Smith MD,
Mystery Quiz Section Editors
The answer to last week’s mystery quiz is pneumatocele/pseudocyst likely due to ventilator associated lung injury (VALI) in a patient with ARDS. …
Commentary by Howard Furst MD and Mitchell Charap MD
We will focus our review of the 2008 ADA meetings on new data regarding the GLP-1 analogues and the DPP 4 inhibitors. Before …
Commentary by Sarika Modi MD, PGY-2
Dr. Irwin Klein MD, Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology, of North Shore University Hospital, gave grand rounds on “Thyroid Disease and the Heart” on September …
Posted by Vivian Hayashi MD and Robert Smith MD, Mystery Quiz Section Editors
The patient is a 76 year old man with history of moderate-to-severe COPD who presented with three days of fever, breathlessness, and productive cough. Past surgical history is significant for vagotomy and partial gastrectomy 16 years earlier and a cholecystectomy …
Commentary by Matthias Kugler MD, PGY-3
Please also see the Grand Rounds Clinical Vignette
Leonhard D Hudson, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Division, University of Washington, Seattle, spoke at Medical Grand Rounds about the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome …