A 48 year old male is diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes Mellitus after presenting to the emergency room with symptoms of hyperglycemia. He was immediately started on insulin and has been very compliant with his regimen. His initial Hemoglobin …
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Meeting Perspectives: 2007 American Thoracic Society International Conference
June 5, 2007
Commentary by Doreen Addrizzo-Harris MD, Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
The 2007 American Thoracic Society (ATS) meeting took place between May18-23 in San Francisco, California at the Moscone Conference center. There were more than 400 …
ShortCuts-This Week in the Journals
June 4, 2007
Much of the week in the media was spent discussing XDR TB. Andrew Speaker, a man on his way to his wedding in Santorini Greece (the picture of his wedding is to the right) managed to evade US security multiple times. The …
Meeting Perspectives-Internal Medicine 2007-The American College of Physicians,Part 2 (continued)
June 1, 2007
Commentary by Mitchell Charap, MD Senior Associate Program Director, NYU Internal Medicine Residency Program
I now return (See previous post) to my discussion of the STAR *D report (Am J Psychiatry. 2006;106) which is a very …
Recent Developments in the Treatment of Renal Cell Carcinoma
May 31, 2007
Commentary by Michael Seidman MD, Chief Oncology Fellow
New treatment options for both early and advanced Renal Cell Cancer have recently been published. Traditionally, treatment for early stage disease was partial or radical nephrectomy. In the metastatic …
New Guidelines on the Management of Intracerebral Hemorrhage
May 30, 2007
Commentary by Dr. Daniel Labovitz, Director of the NYU Stroke Center
After an 8-year hiatus, the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association has at last published a fresh set of guidelines on the management of acute spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) [Stroke …
ShortCuts-This week in the Journals
May 29, 2007
The big bomb this past week was the Rosiglitazone Effect. Resulting in front page news in various newspapers (on multiple days), the meta-analysis in last week’s NEJM is causing quite the stir. For more information, see …
How should you approach a pregnant patient with chronic kidney disease?
May 25, 2007
A 31 year old female with hypertension and proteinuria secondary to IgA nephropathy, currently treated with an ARB, presents to clinic stating that she would like to become pregnant.
What is the risk of fetal morbidity in the setting …