All Medicine

Submissions from 2007 2007

Results of phase 2 trial of eritoram, a synthetic TLR-4 antagonist, in patients with severe sepsis, Mark Tidswell MD

The anesthesiologist and pulmonary arterial hypertension, Mark Tidswell MD and Thomas Higgins MD

Cachexia in a 53-year-old end-stage renal disease patient on hemodialysis, Chirag Vaidya MD

Colloid carcinoma of the minor duodenal papilla, Heike Varnholt MD, Richard Wait MD, James Mueller MD, and David Desilets MD

The pharyngeal-cervical-brachial variant of Guillain Barre syndrome: An atypical presentation, Alireza Vaziri MD, Mark Tidswell MD, and Maura Brennan MD

Nodal staging of NSCLC: A pictorial atlas of thoracic lymph node stations utilizing FDG PET/CT, Erez Vidan MD, Laurie Gianturco MD, Boyd Hehn MD, and Gary Hochheiser MD

Isolated left ventricular noncompaction: A rare cardiomyopathy, Siddharth Wartak MD, Syed Hussain MD, and M Javed Ashraf MD

Sick sinus syndrome secondary to facial injury, Siddharth Wartak MD, Prabhdeep Sethi MD, James Cook MD, and Syed Hussain MD

Pilot study of a comprehensive, culturally sensitive diabetes case management intervention for poorly controlled Hispanic Type 2 patients, Garry Welch and Jane Garb

Impact of diabetes self management education interventions on diabetes-related emotional distress: A meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials, Garry Welch, Jane Garb, and Sofija Zagarins MD

Allergen immunotherapy in a 45-year-old Caucasian male with a 20-year history of HIV with severe allergic rhinitis: Monitoring of HIV viral load and T cells during immunotherapy, John Wheeler MD and Jonathan Bayuk MD

A new web-based operative skills assessment tool effectively tracks progression in surgical resident performance, Eyad Wohaibi MD, David Earle MD, Francis Ansanitis, Richard Wait MD, and Neal Seymour MD

Can I afford to go part time?, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Evaluation of the right lower quadrant, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Flu review: New guidelines and regs from the CDC for the 6/07 flu season, Jeannette Wolfe MD

Submissions from 2006 2006

Morphology and location of restenosis following bare metal coronary stenting., Ehsan Ansari MD, James Cook MD, Ashequl Islam MD, Marc Schweiger MD, and Gregory Giugliano MD

Acute motor axonal neuropathy: A curious variant of Guillain-Barre Syndrome(GBS), Carmel Armon MD

Disaster myths and hurricane Katrina 2005: Can public officals and the media learn to provide reponsible crisis communication during disasters, Jeffrey Arnold MD

Succinylcholine or rocuronium? A meta-analysis of the effects on intubation conditions., Jeffrey Arnold MD

Diagnostic utility of bile duct curettage specimens in bile duct cytology, Margaret Assaad MD, Maryanne Hornish, Robert Goulart MD, David Desilets MD, and Liron Pantanowitz MD

Tenofovir-associated acute and chronic kidney disease: A case of multiple drug interactions., John Bedford MD, Gregory Braden MD, and Anne Morris

Development of a simulation program to teach adult resuscitation in an internal medicine residency program, Raquel Belforti MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, and Gerard Langlois

Stroke prevention in older adults, Sandra Bellantonio MD and Arnulfo Deray MD

Challenges to research in urban community health centers., Evan Benjamin MD

Assessing cognitive ability in research: Use of MMSE with minority populations and elderly adults with low education levels., Candace Bignell

Strategies used by nurses to recover medical errors in an academic emergency department setting., Fidela Blank, Elizabeth Henneman, and Philip Henneman MD

Chlamydia Trachomatis and Trachoma: Protective and disease-associated Hla Drb1/Dqb1 allotypes of Tanzanian villagers, Linda Bobo MD

Integrating ArcWeb explorer with medical crisis information, Christopher Boyd MD

A patient satisfaction survey to measure the effect of hospitalist practice, Greta H. Boynton MD, David Ling MD, Donna Borah, and Richard Brzostek

Successful treatment of lymphoma induced lactic acidosis in an older patient, Gregory Braden MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Sik Ang MD

Urinary excretion and renal expression of osteopontin in premature infants at risk for nephrocalcinosis, Gregory Braden MD, Giovanna Crisi MD, and Thomas Campfield MD

Low mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC) predicts death in chronic hemodialysis patients, Gregory Braden MD and Jeffrey Mulhern MD

Risk factors for calcific uremic arteriolopathy (CUA): A case control study in chronic hemodialysis patients, Gregory Braden MD, Jeffrey Mulhern MD, Penny Pekow, Michael Germain MD, George Lipkowitz MD, Arley Diaz MD, and Robert Madden MD

Depression with psychosis masquerading as delirium, Maura Brennan MD, Samuel Borden MD, and Eileen Kehoe MD

Severe left ventricular dysfunction mimicking acute myocardial infarction, Maura Brennan MD, Kevin Hinchey MD, and Duha Shaheen MD

Left bundle branch block partial reversal with L-thyroxine administration in a hypothyroid patient, Maura Brennan MD, David Ling MD, and Duha Shaheen MD

Acute transverse myelitis (ATM) in an elderly woman, Maura Brennan MD and Rosette Odulio MD

Reversible motor impairment in a 65 year old patient with posterior fossa dermoid cyst, Maura Brennan MD and David Robertson MD

Can we better determine the etiology of community-acquired pneumonia?, Richard Brown MD

The Human Patient Simulator(HPS): Is it essential to be in the 'Hot Seat' for better learning, Rukshana Cader MD, Joel Abraham MD, Mihaela Stefan MD, and Gladys Fernandez MD

Recurrent thromboembolic phenomena on therapeutic warfarin: A question of VKORC1 polymorphism, Rukshana Cader MD, Archan Shah MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, and Linda Canty MD

A case of spontaneous subdural hematomas caused by VP shunt drainage for normal pressure hvdrocephalus, Carmel Celestin MD and Maura Brennan MD

The effect of a patient's risk taking attitude on the cost effectiveness of testing strategies, Deepa Chandrasekaran MD, Samuel Borden MD, and Rukmini Modem MD

Renal palliative care., Lewis Cohen MD and Michael Germain MD

Time to end systolic velocity, a novel tissue Doppler measurement, correlates best with maximal longitudinal contraction, James Cook MD, Leng Jiang MD, Hany Aziz MD, Lisa Massie MD, Adrian Fluture MD, and Prabhdeep Sethi MD

Insights into left ventricular synchrony: Peak velocity versus peak contraction, James Cook MD, Kenneth Santiago MD, Leng Jiang MD, and Adrian Fluture MD

Managing hospitalized patients with heart failure, Cindy Cunningham

Cadasil: Cognitive decline in a 35 Y/O woman, Arnulfo Deray MD, Maura Brennan MD, and Victoria Peters MD

Incidence of common duct stones after positive intraoperative cholangiogram, David Desilets MD

Physician characteristics, attitudes, and use of computerized order entry., Jan Fitzgerald, Peter Lindenauer MD, David Ling MD, Penny Pekow, Evan Benjamin MD, Nancy Hoople, and Deborah Naglieri-Prescod

Immunophenotypic changes and clinical outcome in B-cell lymphomas treated with rituximab., Jonathan Freeman MD and Richard Steingart MD

High humidity, low humidity, and mist therapy for croup, Richard Gabor MD

The acute effect of aerobic exercise on brachial artery endothelial function in renal transplant recipients., Michael Germain MD

Withdrawal from dialysis: A palliative care perspective., Michael Germain MD and Lewis Cohen MD

Baseline Cystatin C measurement is a potent predictor of adverse cardiovascular outcomes following ACS: A PROVE IT-TIMI 22 analysis, Gregory Giugliano MD

Antibiotic side effects, Eric Granowitz MD

Testing a classification model for emergency department errors., Elizabeth Henneman, Fidela Blank, Katherine Williamson, and Philip Henneman MD

Prehospital hypotension is a predictor of the need for an emergent, therapeutic operation in trauma patients with normal systolic blood pressure in the emergency department., Philip Henneman MD

Computerized Physician Order Entry(CPOE): Employing pre-built chemotherapy care sets: Antiemetic and supportive care medication omissions., Donald Higby MD, Wilson Mertens MD, Deborah Naglieri-Prescod, and Lucinda Cassells MD

An updated method to assess ICU clinical performance and resource utilization, Thomas Higgins MD

Changes in medication use after computerized physician order entry(CPOE)implementation., Thomas Higgins MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Mark Tidswell MD

NT-proBNP levels in the ICU do not predict the etiology of respiratory distress., Thomas Higgins MD, Patrick Mailloux MD, and James Cook MD

Severity-adjusted outcome after CPOE implementation, Thomas Higgins MD, William McGee MD, Peter Lindenauer MD, and Mark Tidswell MD

Baystate educational innovation project, Kevin Hinchey MD, Samuel Borden MD, Lauren Meade MD, Michael Picchioni MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, and David Longworth MD

See one, do one, teach one: Introducing the manager model into the PGY-2 year, Kevin Hinchey MD and Michael Picchioni MD

Acute detection of reperfused and non-reperfused acute myocardial infarction with Tc-99m glucaric acid, William Hiser MD

Geometric determinants of functional tricuspid regurgitation: Insights from 3-dimensional echocardiography, Leng Jiang MD

The going home initiative: Getting trauma ICU patients home with hospice, Paul Jodka MD, Betty Babb, and Beth Stadnicki

Tolosa-Hunt syndrome: A rare entity, Cyrus Khan MD, Raul Octaviani MD, and Stephen Ryzewicz MD

Purple urinary catheter and bag syndrome in a nonagenarian, Venkta Kodali MD

Variable Troponin T and CK MB Leak and ECG changes in Rhabdomyolysis without chest trauma, Venkta Kodali MD and Hany Aziz MD

Creutzfeldt Jacob disease and myasthenia gravis presenting as delirium in an octgenarian, Venkta Kodali MD, Maura Brennan MD, Todd Capizzi MD, Donna Mercado MD, George Baquis MD, Benjamin Liptzin MD, and David Longworth MD

A nutritional supplement formula for influenza A (H5N1) infection in humans., Harvey Lederman MD

Cutaneous malignant melanoma., Aimee Leonard MD

Large mucosal lip defects: Management by second intention healing, Aimee Leonard MD

Rapid preparation of high-quality frozen sections using the Cryo-Hist embedding machine, Aimee Leonard MD

Surgical Pearl: The use of a laboratory vortex for poly-L-lactic acid injection., Aimee Leonard MD

Treatment of giant keratoacanthoma with intralesional 5-fluorouracil., Aimee Leonard MD

Viral hepatitis, risk behaviors, aminotransferase levels, and screening options at a county correctional center, Thomas Lincoln MD

Facilitators and barriers to continuing healthcare after jail: A community-integrated program, Thomas Lincoln MD and Thomas Conklin MD

Volume, quality of care, and outcome in pneumonia., Peter Lindenauer MD

Physician characteristics, attitudes and use of computerized order entry, Peter Lindenauer MD, David Ling MD, Nancy Hoople, Evan Benjamin MD, and Deborah Naglieri-Prescod

Quality of care for patients hospitalized for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease., Peter Lindenauer MD, Penny Pekow, and Evan Benjamin MD

A question of heterogenous VISA in a patient with persistent respiratory alkalosis, Gina Luciano MD, Simon Li MD, Michael Rosenblum MD, and Michael Chin