Commentary By: Anna Dvorak, MDPGY-3
Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer mortality in both men and women. Screening patients at risk for lung cancer might reduce mortality if it helps find cancers at an early stage while they are …
Commentary By: Anna Dvorak, MDPGY-3
Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer mortality in both men and women. Screening patients at risk for lung cancer might reduce mortality if it helps find cancers at an early stage while they are …
Commentary By: Sarah Huen, PGY-3 and David Chong, Director of Critical Care, Bellevue Hospital, Associate NYU Internal Medicine Residency Program Director
The role of long-acting b-agonists (LABAs) in the treatment of asthma continues to be controversial. Growing evidence that LABAs may cause …
Commentary By: Marshall Fordyce, PGY-3
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is as ominous as it sounds. As a second-year resident on the Chest service, you may have treated one or two patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), which …
Commentary By: Elizabeth Ross, PGY-3
Cigarette manufacturers have been steadily increasing the nicotine content in cigarettes over the last 7 years. The news broke in August of this year when the Massachusetts Department of Public Health discovered that the …
Before you read the answer you will probably want to review the original post of the mystery quiz from last week.
The pathology has been correctly identified. The photomicrograph shows lipoid pneumonia, which in fact was due to chronic mineral oil ingestion (aspiration). The patient suffered …
Since we received little in the way of responses to our mystery quiz, we thought a hint might be in order, so here's the case again this time with a hint. Please submit your answers by clicking on the "comments" link below this post. As always, for those of you who are …
Posted 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 …
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.
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