By Joseph Plaksin
Peer Reviewed
This week, the Senate Intelligence Committee declassified a 500-page report that outlined and described uses of torture by the CIA to interrogate suspected terrorists after the …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Mechanisms of Angiotensin Blockade in the Management of Diabetic Nephropathy
December 11, 2014
By Miguel A. Saldivar, MD
Peer ReviewedÂ
When a patient with diabetes comes into a clinic or hospital, it is not uncommon to hear the question, “Is he/she on an angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitor (ACEI) or an angiotensin-receptor blocker (ARB)?” Most clinicians …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
December 8, 2014
By Amar Parikh, MD
Peer Reviewed
This week, the nation was rocked by the decision of a Staten Island grand jury to not indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of …
From The Archives: Does Perioperative Smoking Cessation Improve outcomes?
December 4, 2014
Please enjoy this Post from the archives dated January 6, 2012
By Benjamin Wu, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Mr. T is a 53-year-old man, with history significant for cholelithiasis. He decides to have an elective …
Mystery Quiz
December 2, 2014Vivian Hayashi MD, Robert Smith MD
The patient is an 82 year old man with frequent breathlessness. The patient had been admitted several times in the past two years for congestive heart failure. Two years earlier, the patient suffered an NSTEMI. A diagnostic cardiac catheterization revealed triple vessel coronary disease. A …
Myths and Realities: Airline Travel and Deep Venous Thrombosis-Does Economy Class Syndrome Really Exist?
November 26, 2014
By Matthew Weiss, MD
Peer Reviewed
Background:
The number of worldwide air travelers is expected to surpass 3.3 billion by 2015 and possibly double by 2030 [1]. These changes will likely …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
November 24, 2014
By Chio Yokose, MD
Peer Reviewed
As temperatures took a noticeable dip earlier this week in New York City, prompting many of us to begrudgingly pull out our heavy down coats and boots …
Approach to the Hospitalized Patient with Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Should Procalcitonin Be Part of the Initial Evaluation?
November 21, 2014
By Matthew Light, MD
Peer Reviewed
A 79 year-old female, 20 pack-year ex-smoker with history of mild systolic congestive heart failure is referred to the emergency department (ED) after an outpatient visit with her …