Landing on the front page of the New York Times today is a study from Science that may turn addiction medicine on its head…no pun intended. Of 32 smokers who had suffered a brain injury, they found that 16 who had …
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Clinical Correlations
When Should You Order a T Wave Alternans Test?
January 25, 2007
A 58 year old male is admitted for "presyncope". He has not had chest pain and his baseline ECG is unchanged. The patient has an ischemic cardiomyopathy with an ejection fraction of …
A drug for NASH that may work?
January 24, 2007
Commentary By: Sandra D'Angelo, PGY-3
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a disease in which patients have features of alcoholic hepatitis on liver biopsy without a prior history of significant alcohol consumption and negative hepatitis serologies. It is …
Mystery Quiz #2
January 22, 2007Posted By Robert Smith, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Division Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
The patient is a 77 year old male whose chief complaint was severe left hip pain of five years duration. As part of a preoperative evaluation for hip surgery, a routine chest x-ray was obtained as …
How Aggressively Should You Treat a Patient with a Pulmonary Embolus?
January 17, 2007
An otherwise healthy 57 year old patient presents with shortness of breath and pleuritic chest pain. The patient is hemodynamically stable without evidence of shock. A chest CT reveals a pulmonary embolus.
Questions: 1. …
Morning Report: How Do You Approach a Patient With Bronchiectasis
January 16, 2007
Chief complaint: 85 year old female presents with worsening shortness of breath for one day.
History of present illness:
The patient’s history of present illness begins at the age of 60 when she was diagnosed with asthma, for which …
To Lavage or Not to Lavage?
January 10, 2007
Case and Commentary by Minisha Sood PGY-3 and Ilseung Cho Fellow, Division of Gastroenterology
The patient is a 57 year-old man with a past history of hypetension, hyperlipidemia, hepatitis B/C cirrhosis and coronary artery disease status/post a non-st-elevation mi in August 2006, …
Why Are Breast Cancer Rates Trending Down?
January 9, 2007
The recent finding of decreasing breast cancer rates made headlines throughout the media; including a NY Times article entitled, Reversing Trend, Big Drop is seen in Breast Cancer on December 15, 2006.
Striking epidemiological …