By Anjali Varma Desai, MD
Mr. X is an 83- year-old male with a history of dementia, hyperlipidemia, irritable bowel syndrome, benign prostatic hypertrophy, hypothyroidism and chronic kidney disease stage …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
From The Archives: Why Does Multiple Myeloma Treat The Kidneys So Poorly?
July 11, 2013
Please enjoy this post from the Archives dated September 22, 2010
By Jon Emile Kenny, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
“You mean I’ve got cancer and my kidneys are failing, doc?” said my frail patient on the Bellevue oncology service shortly after a medical …
Music Therapy: The Art of Healing
July 10, 2013
By Chelsey Forbess, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
United States congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head over two years ago on January 8, 2011. She was reported to be in critical condition, …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
July 8, 2013
By Matthew Light, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
As summer continues, the heat presses on, the inevitable slow march towards shorter days progresses and NYU Langone Medical Center marked its first week with a new class of interns. …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
July 1, 2013
By Matthew Vorsanger, MD and Brian Greet, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Making health news this week, an ailing Nelson Mandela who has been hospitalized in an intensive care unit for over twenty days was visited …
Are We Too Hesitant to Anticoagulate Elderly Patients with Atrial Fibrillation? A Risk-Benefit Analysis
June 28, 2013
By Sunny N. Shah, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Background:
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia and its prevalence increases with age. In fact, the lifetime incidence of AF is approximately 25% in …
Primary Care for the Transgender Population
June 26, 2013
By Ishita Aggarwal
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Ms. B is a 60-year-old female transsexual patient with a past medical history of asthma who presented to the clinic with a dry cough. While at first glance …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
June 24, 2013
By Karin Katz, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that human genes cannot be patented. The case involved Myriad Genetics, a company that patented the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes in the late 1990s. Since then, the …