Commentary by Sabina Berezovskaya MD, PGY-3
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Up to 32% of patients with acute pericarditis will have a recurrent episode. Acute attacks are commonly precipitated by infections, malignancy, cardiac trauma, myocardial infection, or autoimmune disease. Recurrent pericarditis …
Commentary by Deena Altman MD, PGY-2
Please also see the clinical vignette presented before grand rounds on February 18th.
At medical grand rounds on February 18, 2009, our very own Dr. Pillinger gave a unique overview of the history, pathogenesis, and new …
Posted by Vivian Hayashi MD and Robert Smith MD, Mystery Quiz Section Editors
The answer to the mystery quiz is allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). The CXR shows right upper lobe opacities, two of which appear round (Image 3, arrow) and another tubular (Image 3, arrowhead), and a left upper lobe opacity which has …
Commentary by Sarah Moore MD, PGY-2
Faculty Peer Reviewed
It has been a difficult week for the stock market and perhaps for some physicians. Most doctors can describe a handful of frustrating patient encounters that …
Posted by Vivian Hayashi MD and Robert Smith MD, Mystery Quiz Section Editors
The patient is a 42 year old male non-smoker with history of poorly controlled asthma (first diagnosed in 1994, recurrent need for steroid treatments but never intubated), severe seasonal allergies with chronic sinusitis, hepatic steatosis, GERD and gout who presented with …
Commentary by Zackary Berger MD PhD, PGY-3, Health Care Policy Section Editor
The name of neurosurgeon and health journalist Sanjay Gupta was leaked in early January as Barack Obama’s choice for Surgeon General. …
Commentary by Michael Tanner MD, Section Editor, Clinical Correlations
Michael Pollan wrote last year in In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, “…the history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients …
Commentary by Christopher Tully MD, PGY-1
Faculty Peer Reviewed
An apple a day. . . keeps the prostate cancer away? While it is an overstatement to say that an apple can prevent cancer, the notion of taking “something” to prevent cancer initiation and growth is nothing new. Primary prevention has …