Commentary by Judith Brenner MD, Associate Program Director, NYU Internal Medicine Residency Program
A 66 year old woman with a history of dyslipidemia and remote tobacco use presents with a sudden onset of pain located in her posterior left thigh radiating down her left …
Commentary by Sean Cavanaugh MD, Associate Editor, Clinical Correlations
A 51-year-old man with a history of DVT diagnosed seven months ago presents to your clinic for follow up. He has no family history of blood clots. He has …
Commentary by Mitchell Charap MD, Senior Associate Program Director, NYU Internal Medicine Residency Program
Caveat: What follows below reflects my perspective on new and old pharmacologic approaches to Type 2 Diabetes. It is not intended to be a …
Should patients with Hepatitis C (HCV) with no evidence of cirrhosis undergo screening for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)? Is there any reason to check for HCC when the liver associated enzymes (LAEs) are normal?
-Sandeep Mangalmurti, PGY-2
Commentary by Mike Poles MD, …
An 80 year old male with atrial fibrillation, hypertension, hypokalemia is diagnosed with hyperaldosteronism with an aldosterone to renin ratio of 34.5/0.15=230 . CT scan reveals a right adrenal 1 cm presumed adenoma
Questions:
1. How do you accurately diagnose …
Commentary By: Theresa Ryan, M.D. Assistant Professor, Division of Oncology
During the first five days in June, the American Society of Clinical Oncology met in Chicago for their 43rd annual meeting. The theme of this meeting was “Translating Research into Practice,” emphasizing …
Commentary by Milini Sahu, MD Fellow, Division of Gastrotenterology, Gina Sam-DeRiggs, Fellow, Division of Gastroenterology, and Michael Poles MD, Assistant Professor, NYU Division of Gastroenterology and Associate Editor, Clinical Correlations
Close to 17,000 gastroenterologists attended Digestive Disease …
Commentary by Sarah Berry MD, PGY-3 and Joseph Weisstuch, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Divsion of Nephrology
Case: Mr. K is a 59 year old gentleman with a past medical history of hypertension, non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia …