By Aneesh Bapat, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Perhaps it’s the French name, the curvaceous appearance on electrocardiogram (EKG), or its elusive and mysterious nature, but Torsades des pointes, a polymorphic ventricular arrhythmia, is certainly the …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
April 23, 2012When April with
Her showers sweet
Drives you inside to
Your window seat,
We shall excite
Synapses neural
With landmark trials
And doggerel.
This cruelest month
Should not deter
A nature curious
With …
In Sickness and In Health
April 20, 2012
By Xiao Jing Wang
Faculty Peer Reviewed
ML is from Fu Zhou, China. She doesn’t speak much English and works in her family’s clothing store as a sales girl. ML is only one year …
From The Archives: How Does Alcohol Cause Cardiomyopathy?
April 19, 2012
Please enjoy this post from the archives dated November 4, 2009
Charles Levine
Faculty peer reviewed
Excessive consumption of ethanol (EtOH) has many deleterious effects on the human body. …
A Study of Cultural Complications in the Management of Diabetes
April 18, 2012
By Kimberly Jean Atiyeh
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Ms. KS is a 49- year-old Bangladeshi woman with a history of diabetes mellitus and non-adherence to medical treatment or follow up, who was reluctantly brought to …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
April 16, 2012
By Becky Naoulou, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
This week in Primecuts, we will get down to the “heart” of business and discuss several recent publications in cardiovascular research. St. Jude, one of the country’s …
RTS,S/AS01: Is This The Beginning Of The End Of Malaria?
April 12, 2012
By Nicole Sunseri
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In Africa, there lurks a stealthy and powerful beast. Is it a lion, a black mamba, or a crocodile? No, it is the Anopheles mosquito. Although less than …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
April 10, 2012
By Robert J Gianotti, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Spring has arrived. Here in the Northeast we have been showered with continual sunshine and our flowering trees are approaching full bloom. Whether enjoying matzah or …