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Submissions from 2008

 

A lively centenarian with giant peptic ulcer disease, Maura Brennan MD and Jodie Hermann MD

 

ICU mortality risk may be overestimated in elders without other risk factors, Maura Brennan MD, Thomas Higgins MD, and Paul Jodka MD

 

Longitudinal study of depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (Depo-Provera(R)) effects on bone health in adolescents: study design, population characteristics and baseline bone mineral density, Ronald Burkman MD

 

Unusual manifestation of disseminated histoplasmosis in AIDS in a Central American immigrant, Imran Dosani MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, Peter Butler MD, and Monica Hollowell MD

 

Unilateral anteromedial thalamic stroke presenting as anterograde and retrograde amnesia, Tara DuVal MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

 

A prospective, case-controlled study of the effect of continuous hemoglobin (Hgb) monitoring (Critline) on hemoglobin variability (Hv) and erythropoietin (Epo) dosing, Michael Germain MD, Warren Ho MD, and Jane Garb

 

Frequent hemoglobin (Hgb) monitoring (12x/month) can inform clinical and organisational decision making, Michael Germain MD, Warren Ho MD, and Jane Garb

 

Cytotechnologists today: Much more than 'pap-ologists' with schools in need of our support, Robert Goulart MD

 

Antibiotic adverse reactions and drug interactions, Eric Granowitz MD and Richard Brown MD

 

Fatal case of bilateral internal jugular vein thrombosis following IVIg infusion in an adolescent girl treated for ITP, Satkiran Grewal MD and Matthew Richardson MD

 

Congestive heart failure (CHF) exacerbation precipitated by unintended overdose of baking soda, Chunmei Huang MD, Amit Saxena MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, and Amir Lotfi MD

 

Cramping with Crohn's: New diagnosis of Crohn's in a 88 year old man, Syed Hussain MD, Siddharth Wartak MD, Alvaro Rosales MD, and Arnulfo Deray MD

 

The efficacy of intravenous immunoglobin in the treatment of refractory Clostridium difficile diarrhea, Melina Irizarry MD, Michael Wall MD, and Sarah Haessler MD

 

An education program to increase knowledge of and immunization with adult pertussis vaccination among parents of newborns, Pui-Ying Iroh Tam MD, Brian W. Smith MD, and Donna Fisher MD

 

Necrotizing fasciitis in a chronic left lower extremity wound, Ilse Levin MD and Roy Sittig MD

 

Length of stay and mortality in pulmonary embolism: high time for evidence-based discharge criteria, Peter Lindenauer MD

 

Outcomes of care by hospitalists, general internists, and family physicians, Peter Lindenauer MD and Michael Rothberg MD

 

The risks of lunch--postprandial hypotension, Gina Luciano MD and Maura Brennan MD

 

Simulation as an educational modality for multidisciplinary training experience in Critical Care Medicine, Patrick Mailloux MD and Gladys Fernandez MD

 

Evidence base for evaluation, management and rehabilitation of ankle injuries, Julio Martinez-Silvestrini MD

 

Clinical assessment of the axillary sentinel lymph node for breast cancer metastasis by the surgeon: A study of one institutionÂ’s voluntary policy change, Juliana Meyer MD, Sabha Ganai MD, Robert Goulart MD, and Holly Mason MD

 

Evaluation of QC3: The automatic quality control system on the ABL80 FLEX, James Nichols, Sadiqa Karim MD, and Melissa Arabadjief MD

 

Evaluation of the B-hydroxybutyrate ketone test on the STAT-site M analyzer, James Nichols and Ronald Moccio

 

Outbreak of Mycobacterium abscessus wound infections among 'lipotourists' from the United States who underwent abdominoplasty in the Dominican Republic, Armando Paez MD and Eric Granowitz MD

 

Adenolipoma of the external female genitalia, Liron Pantanowitz MD, Jean Henneberry MD, Christopher Otis MD, and Mary Zakhary MD

 

Idiopathic short stature: Management and growth hormone treatment, Edward Reiter MD

 

Burst pressures in gastric closure: A NOTES comparison study of looped T-anchors vs. endoclips in the explanted porcine stomach, John Romanelli MD, David Desilets MD, and David Earle MD

 

NOTES pancreatic pseudocystgastrostomy: A human NOTES anastomosis., John Romanelli MD, David Desilets MD, David Earle MD, and Loki Skylizard MD

 

Characterization of rapid performance improvement on a complex laparoscopic task using a virtual-reality trainer in the SAGES learning center., John Romanelli MD, David Lin MD, and Neal Seymour MD

 

Sensory impairment, Alvaro Rosales MD, Ashish Verma MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

 

Complications of viral influenza, Michael Rothberg MD, Sarah Haessler MD, and Richard Brown MD

 

Do pediatricians manage influenza differently than internists, Michael Rothberg MD, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD, and David Rose MD

 

DLBD - Diagnosis Lost By Delay, Amit Saxena MD and Jagadeesan Udayarani MD

 

The 'Doppler-Swoosh' Test: A further modification to the swoosh test, Donald Schwartz MD and Karthik Raghunathan MD

 

Premature closure may be detrimental in the elderly, Reham Shaaban MD, Rukshana Cader MD, and Sandra Bellantonio MD

 

Near fatal Foley, Senthil Sivalingam MD and Maura Brennan MD

 

An unusual cardiac cause of delirium, Senthil Sivalingam MD and Arnulfo Deray MD

 

Bacterial meningitis, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

Bordetella pertussis, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

Brucella species, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

Campylobacter species, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

Candida species, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

Clostridium botulinum, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

Clostridium tetani, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

Coccidioides species, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

Cryptococcus neoforms, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

Histoplasma capsulatum, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

Mycobacterium leprae, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

Phaeohyphomycoses, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

Shigella species, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

Streptococcus pyogenes, Barbara W. Stechenberg MD

 

The combined mammographic and sonographic evaluation of palpable breast lesions: Negative predictive value with at least 3-year follow-up, Erica Tyler MD and David March MD

 

Atrial stunning following cardioversion resulting in flash pulmonary edema, Michael Wall MD and Sandra Bellantonio MD

 

Suture survival in an acidic environment: Implications for Natural Orifice Transgastric Endolumenal Surgery (NOTES), Eyad Wohaibi MD, Sabha Ganai MD, Richard Wait MD, and John Romanelli MD

 

Demonstration of increasing laparoscopic clinical skill over time: Use of a new network-based resident assessment tool, Eyad Wohaibi MD, David Lin MD, David Earle MD, and Neal Seymour MD

 

A mother and son with an isolated 6q subtelomere deletion and comparison to other reported cases, Mary-Alice Abbott MD

 

Prospective detection of hyperglycemia in critically ill children using continuous glucose monitoring, Holley Allen MD, Dennis Brenner MD, and Christine McKiernan MD

 

Diagnostic utility of mammaglobin in lesions of the uterine cervix, Margaret Assaad MD, Christopher Otis MD, Sharon Marconi, and Liron Pantanowitz MD

 

Reflective writing and facilitated discussion enhance teaching of clinical ethics, Maura Brennan MD, Thomas Campfield MD, Elisabeth Bennett, and John O'Reilly MD

 

Ligneous inflammation of the female genital tract, Gabriel Caponetti MD, Christopher Otis MD, Sharon Marconi, and Liron Pantanowitz MD

 

Adequacy of lymph node retrieval in colonic adenocarcinoma depends on surgical and anatomic factors, Christopher Chapman MD and Wayne Duke MD

 

Infant safe sleeping in homeless family shelters, Sonia Chaudhry MD and Nancy Miller MD

 

Simulation based training for third year medical students: A combined medical and surgical effort to link theory with practice, Elizabeth D'Amour, Mihaela Stefan MD, Gladys Fernandez MD, Michael Picchioni MD, David Page MD, Joel Abraham MD, Rukshana Cader MD, Neal Seymour MD, and Richard Wait MD

 

Tumor-targeted delivery of TRIAL using Salmonella typhimurium enhances breast cancer survival, Sabha Ganai MD, Richard Arenas MD, and Neil Forbes

 

Patients' beliefs and preferences regarding doctors' medication recommendations, Sarah Goff MD

 

Combination of enzyme replacement and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation as therapy for Hurler syndrome, Satkiran Grewal MD

 

Increasing the quality and quantity of feedback in medical education, Kevin Hinchey MD and Michael Picchioni MD

 

Protein-passivated Fe3O4 nanoparticles: Low toxicity and rapid heating for thermal therapy, D Joseph Jerry

 

Pulmonary infections, David Longworth MD

 

Prolonged cardiac arrest: A revised model of porcine ventricular fibrillation, Timothy Mader MD

 

Performance of intraoperative axillary sentinel lymph node touch prep evaluation: Effect of surgical submission of "Suspicious" sentinel lymph nodes, Juliana Meyer MD, Holly Mason MD, Sabha Ganai MD, Maryanne Hornish, Giovanna Crisi MD, and Robert Goulart MD

 

Case/control study of patients who have high-level oocyte immaturity on multiple cycles during ICSI, Andrew Moore MD, Margaret Arny, Kelly Lynch MD, Diana Atashroo MD, M Yusoff Dawood MD, and Daniel Grow MD

 

Pre-analytical variables, James Nichols

 

Evaluation of HemoCue glucose 201 room temperature microcuvettes [Erratum], James Nichols, Aparna Rajadhyaksha MD, and Mirian Rodriguez

 

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: From the Hospital to the Community, Armando Paez MD and Daniel Skiest MD

 

Kaposi sarcoma: Appraisal of therapeutic agents, Liron Pantanowitz MD

 

Editorial comment: Sweet syndrome--a diagnosis seeking a cause, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Wayne Duke MD

 

Keloids do not harbor EBV or HHV8, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Wayne Duke MD

 

Gout, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Monica Hollowell MD

 

Cystitis glandularis, Liron Pantanowitz MD and Christopher Otis MD

 

Primer to the Internal medicine clerkship: A guide produced by the clerkship directors in Internal medicine, Michael Picchioni MD

 

Evaluation of the Enterprise Point-of-Care (EPOC) system for blood gas and electrolyte analysis, Aparna Rajadhyaksha MD, James Nichols, and Mirian Rodriguez

 

Potentially inappropriate medication use in hospitalized elders, Michael Rothberg MD, Penny Pekow, Maura Brennan MD, Sandra Bellantonio MD, Mark Heelon, and Peter Lindenauer MD

 

Accuracy of resident obstetrical procedure numbers in the case log system, Heather Sankey MD

 

Depression and gestational weight gain among low-income Hispanic and White non-Hispanic women, Heather Sankey MD

 

Drug-eluting stents and acute myocardial infarction: Experience from the TAXUS ARRIVE registry program, Marc Schweiger MD

 

The novel factor VIIa/tissue factor inhibitor, recombinant nematode anticoagulant protein C2, alters PT/INR in dose-dependent manner proportionate with plasma concentration in patients with nSTE-ACS: Data from the ANTHEM-TIMI 32 trial, Marc Schweiger MD

 

Reply to Cooper et al, Daniel Skiest MD

 

ST segment depression during vasodilator stress testing predicts long term mortality in women, Neelima Vallurupalli MD, M Javed Ashraf MD, James Cook MD, and William Hiser MD

 

Cigarette smoking cessation services in outpatient substance abuse treatment programs in the United States., Peter D. Friedmann, Lan Jiang, and Kimber P. Richter

 

Opportunities and challenges for diabetes prevention at two community health centers, Evan Benjamin MD, Dorothea von Goeler MD, and Penny Pekow

 

E-tools of change: An analysis of a corporate Intranet promoting organizational change, Elisabeth Bennett

 

A consensus document on robotic surgery, David Earle MD

 

Prosthetic material in inguinal hernia repair: How do I choose?, David Earle MD and Lisa Mark MD

 

Elderly patients without MPM-III risk factors fare surprisingly well, Thomas Higgins MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Paul Jodka MD

 

Mixed hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma may derive from 'hepatogones', John Hunt MD

 

A pilot study to measure and improve collaboration in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Paul Jodka MD, Nancy Doubleday, Paula Lusardi, Elaine Blonaisz, and Elizabeth Henneman

 

The "Going Home Initiative": Direct transfer of terminally-ill intensive care unit patients to home hospice, Paul Jodka MD, Paula Lusardi, Nancy Doubleday, Danielle Plouffe, Betty Babb, and Thomas Higgins MD