Content Posted in 2026
An Acknowledgement to the HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine's Reviewers and Editors for the Second Half of 2025, Juan A. Sanchez and Graig Donini
Baroreflex Activation Therapy and Subcutaneous ICDs: A Manageable Electrical Mismatch, Eboselumen Aigbe, Gunjan Mundhra, Munachiso Egbo, and Yuhning Linda Hu
Becoming the Silence, Yves Najm Mrad
Benign Transient Hyperphosphatasemia in Adults: Case Report and Literature Review, Jose L. Rodriguez Castro, Grettel Gonzalez Garcia, Daniel Heller, and Bernardo J. Reyes
Beyond Diuresis and Glycemic Control: Comparative Analysis of Sodiumglucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors (SGLT2i) vs. Furosemide and Metformin in Heart Failure (HF) Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) Using the TriNetX Database, Moh'd Daise, Qusai Alqudah, Aseed Mestarihi, Omar Obeidat, Nizar Alnabahneh, and Hashim Al-Ani
Caring Moments, Margaret J. DeMars
Carotid Artery Stenting Outcomes in Comprehensive Stroke Hospitals (CASSH): A Prospective Multicenter Study, Mohamad Ezzeldin, Ameer E Hassan, Rime Ezzeldin, Kaho Adachi, Youssef Soliman, Amer Alshekhlee, M Shazam Hussain, Muhammad Niazi, Faheem Sheriff, Saif Bushnaq, Kaiz Asif, Omar Tanweer, Ali Alaraj, Ramesh Grandhi, Nazli Janjua, Daniel Vela-Duarte, Chaubal Varun, Alzahra'a Al Matairi, Osman Mir, LeighAnn Mealer, Chizoba Ezepue, Mohammand AlMajali, Amit Chaudhari, Maria Martucci, Mohammad Ammar Abdulrazzak, Alberto Maud, Gustavo Rodriguez, Samantha Miller, Darko Quispe-Orozco, Pichatorn Suppakitjanusant, Musaab Froukh, Navpreet Bains, Ibrahim Bhatti, Jordan Xu, Tatiana Abou-Mrad, Walid Salah, Omid Shoraka, Zuhair Ali, Osama Zaidat, and Farhan Siddiq
Carotid Endarterectomy With Stent Explantation for In-Stent Restenosis in Two Patients and Review of the Literature, Michael W. Alchaer, Harrison Gorran, Anthony W. Alchaer, and Thomas A. Abbruzzese
Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome: A Rare but Life-Threatening Thrombotic Storm-A Case Report and Literature Review, Renee Morecroft-Phillipps, Jordan Phillipps, Vikas Majithia, and Sehreen Mumtaz
Circumferential Resection of the Right Atrium to Excise Angiosarcoma, Chadi Nahal, Nicholas A. Borden, Majid Chammas, Thomas Steen, and Cristiano Faber
Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Lower Extremity Amputation During Inpatient Rehabilitation and its Predictors for Home Discharge, Se Won Lee, Duke Shen, and Ning Cao
Cognitive Improvements in Sinking Skin Flap Syndrome Using a Negative Pressure Helmet, Jian S Sabripour, Roberto A Martin, Anthony Pasarin, Regina Graham, and Bryan Lieber
Comparison of Integrated Dual-lag Screw Versus Single Lag Screw Cephalomedullary Nails for Intertrochanteric Femoral Fractures: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, McKenna W Box, Kyle O'Connor, Troy B. Puga, Wrangler Beal, Winston Scambler, Lachlan Anderson, Kisan Parikh, and John T. Riehl
Crown Hill Trees, Erin E. Perrin
Dawn's Light: A New Day, Wendy A. McEuen
De Garengeot Hernia Presenting as a Rare Cause of Incarcerated Femoral Hernia, Michael W. Alchaer, Harrison Gorran, Amanda Rigdon, Thomas A. Abbruzzese, and Ji Fan
Delayed-Onset Vitiligo in Metastatic HR+/HER2- Breast Cancer During Long-Term Ribociclib Therapy, Elias Tayar and Dhatri Kodali
Diabetic Ketoacidosis Associated With the Menstrual Cycle: A Case of Catamenial Diabetic Ketoacidosis, Reza Alavi, Casper Chen, Hector Armando Sanchez Garcia, and Obiora Udeozo
Did the Implementation of a Bye Week Decrease Injury Rates in the National Hockey League?, Ibraheem Qureshi, Hans Drawbert, Christopher Flowers, and John T. Riehl
Dietary Supplements (Nutraceuticals) for Improving Adult Fracture Healing Outcomes: A Narrative Review of Current Evidence and Gaps, Mckenna W. Box, Charles Marchese, Troy B. Puga, and John T. Riehl
Do Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio and Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio Reflect Coronary Artery Disease Severity Assessed by SYNTAX Score?: A Meta-Analysis, Amro Assayed, Saif Aburumman, Ibrahim Abunemr, Amez Radha Faraj Salih, Hanan Gruhonjic, Ashot Minasyan, Daniel Fabian, Charles Ledonio, and Rakesh Prashad
Dose-Dependent Effects of SGLT2 Inhibitors on Circadian Blood Pressure in Hypertensive Patients with Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis, Davood Semirani-Nezhad, Khatere Roozbehi, Arman Soltani Moghadam, Elham Ebrahimi, Keyvan Salehi, Anahita Hashempoor, Sima Shamshiri, Tara Azardar, Mahshad Sabri, Ali Moradi, Kaveh Hosseini, Mani Khorsand Askari, Toshiki Kuno, and Fatemeh Chichagi
Effect of Covid-19 Infection on Maternal and Fetal Outcomes of Pregnancy: a Systematic Review, Serra Saad, Julie DeCesare, Robyn Meadows, Mary Golden, and Dawn Hannah
Efficacy and Diagnostic Yield of 19G Versus 22G Fine Needle Biopsy Needles in EUS-Guided Liver Bbiopsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Harsimran Kalsi, Sahib Singh, Babu P Mohan, Rabindra Watson, and Rashmi Advani
Eruptive Juvenile Xanthogranuloma and B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in a Child: Case Report and Literature Review, Sahithi Talasila, Michelle Militello, and Pearl C. Kwong
Erythema ab igne Induced by Menthol-based Topical Analgesic Patches, Raj H. Patel, Vixey Silva, Stefano Cena, and David Esguerra
Expanding the Conversation Around Radiotherapy for Lentigo Maligna, Response to Radiotherapy versus Imiquimod for Complex Lentigo Maligna: A Phase 3 Randomized Clinical Trial, Jessica Houpe, Austinn Miller, Genevieve Patrick, Amir Aboutalebi, Harris Green, and Armand B. Cognetta
Expanding Waste Segregation Initiatives to Reduce Regulated Medical Waste: A Multi-Departmental Quality Improvement Project, Emily M. Su, Anuja L. Sarode, Mohammed Sami, David R. Nehring, Erica L. Laipply, and Mustafa Culcuoglu
Exploring the Effects of Traumatic Brain Injuries on Cranial Nerve Injury, Caitlin J. McPartland, Michael J. Pienkos, Sarah E. Johnson, and Saptarshi Biswas
Extensive Collateral Venous Circulation and Anatomic Remodeling in Chronic Deep Vein Thrombosis, Demi Curbelo, Ian Lancaster, Alexander Yaylayan, and Merrill Krolick
Facing Dissection, Aya E. Cannon
Facing Dissection, Aya E. Cannon
Fana’ (Annihilation), Houyar Moghaddas
Fearless, Sophia Zia
Impact of Palliative Care Consultation on Clinical Interventions and Outcomes in a Medical-Surgical Community-Based Intensive Care Unit, Manjot S. Malhi, Jude Tabba, Aunie M. Danyalian, Michele Iguina, Daniel Zapata, Raiko Diaz, Dionne Morgan, Daniel Heller, Sanaz Kashan, and Mauricio Danckers
Improving Sleep Quality and Quantity in Hospitalized Patients With Melatonin: A Quality Improvement Project at HCA (Hospital Corporation of America) Oak Hill Hospital., Tong Ren, Alisher Hamidullah, Sophia Samaranayake, Alexander Answine, Salman Muddassir, Rahul Mhaskar, Olu Oyesanmi, and Mohamad Eid
Inner Working of the Human Body, Dammika Abeygunawardena
Internal Hernia With Enteroenteric Fistula After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in an Adult Female, Michael W. Alchaer, Harrison Gorran, Stephanie Gonzalez, Koji Honda, and Thomas A. Abbruzzese
Intraocular Metastasis from an Anal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: a Case Report, Sameeha Sajid, Muhammad Daud Abdullah, and Ammar Yousif
Life-Threatening Pulmonary Embolism in Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber Syndrome Presenting With Hemoptysis, Shiv Gakhar, Armaan Handa, Yash Dara, Hallie Stubbs, Jay Patel, and Melanie Cheing
Management of Known Cushing's Disease in a Nonsurgical Candidate Secondary to a History of Hemorrhagic Stroke Case Report, Kyle Distler, Jean Ramos Cardona, and Suzanne Martinez
Metastatic Squamous Cell Carcinoma to the Gallbladder Presenting as a Diagnostic and Surgical Challenge, Michael W. Alchaer, Harrison Gorran, Amanda Rigdon, Thomas A. Abbruzzese, and Ji Fan
Micro Life, David Burton
Mitochondrial Disorder in a Child With Brainstem Lesions Mimicking Thiamine Deficiency, Mohamad A. Asfour, Jennifer Nedimyer Horner, Kanika Gupta, Gleidson Silva, Tushar Chandra, and Gian Rossi
Mobile Dermatology Clinics: Opportunities to Expand Medical and Surgical Care Access in Underserved Communities, Taha F. Rasul, Benjamin R. Cooper, Fiona S Gruzmark, Alexandra K. Mathis, and Jay Herbst
Mounier-Kuhn Syndrome Flare With Pleuritic Chest Pain: A Discussion of Complications and Management, Geran Maule, Akil Augustus, Mohammad Khraisat, Jay Mehta, Elio Rodríguez Araque, and Michael D. Schweitzer
Multicenter Study on the Safety of Pulsed Field Ablation in Over 40,000 Patients: MANIFEST-US, Mohit K Turagam, Arash Aryana, John D. Day, Srinivas R Dukkipati, Troy Hounshell, Devi Nair, Andrea Natale, Stanislav Weiner, Jim W Cheung, Larry Chinitz, Frank Cuoco, Marcos Daccarett, Sanjay Dandamudi, Alok Gambhir, Maheer Gandhavadi, Jamie Kim, Mark D Metzl, Bradley Mikaelian, Darren Peress, Jorge E Romero, Javier Sanchez, David A Sandler, Naushad A Shaik, Michael Shehata, Sultan M Siddique, Abhinav Singh, Matthew J Singleton, Sri Sundaram, Yoel Vivas, Jonathan W Waks, Kenneth H Yamamura, Matthew Zipse, Joon Ahn, Obadah Al Chekakie, Mahmoud Ali, Nameer Ascandar, Sandeep Bansal, Andrew D Beaser, Jaskanwal Bisla, Scott Brancato, David J Callans, Peter Chang-Sing, Rashaad Chothia, Joseph Dell'Orfano, David B DeLurgio, Shephal K Doshi, Lynn Erickson, Sandeep Gautam, Venkateshwar Gottipaty, Sandeep Goyal, Sanjaya Gupta, Jamal Hajjari, John D Harding, Jessica Hennessey, Huy V. Ho, Ivan Ho, Jonathan C Hsu, Henry D Huang, Matthew Hutchinson, Rachel Kaplan, Sreekanth Karanam, Nayanjyoti Kaushik, David N Kenigsberg, Arfaat Khan, Bradley Knight, Jordan Leyton-Mange, Bernard Lim, Theodore J Maglione, Bobby Malik, Matthew McKillop, Donald Mehlhorn, Davendra Mehta, Suneet Mittal, Kent R Nilsson, Samuel Omotoye, Hakan Oral, Ragesh Panikkath, Apoor Patel, Christian Perzanowski, Anil Rajendra, Mansour Razminia, Samir Saba, Jose M Sanchez, Danish Iltaf Satti, Navinder Sawhney, Dinesh Sharma, Robert Sheppard, Madhurmeet Singh, Jasbir Sra, James E Stone, Ravi Sureddi, Matthew Taylor, Todd L Teigeler, Venkat Tholakanahalli, Amar Trivedi, Kevin M Trulock, Ganesh Venkataraman, Daniel Weitz, Brian D Williamson, Stephen L Winters, Jennifer M Wright, Richard Wu, David Yoo, Anthony Aizer, Daniel Dan Alyesh, Luciano Amado, Ryan Borne, Nagib Chalfoun, David Chang, Megan Davis, Ashkan Ehdaie, Paul Z Gerczuk, Jefferson H Lee, Gregory Michaud, Hiroshi Miyama, Sanghamitra Mohanty, Luis Mora, George Mounir, Nischala Nannapaneni, Jose Nazari, Graham Peigh, William H Sauer, Darren Sidney, Vivek Varughese, Wendy Tzou, Ugur Gurol, and Vivek Y Reddy
Nicotine Use and Patient-Directed Discharge Rate in Psychiatric Inpatients: A Retrospective Cohort, Steven Sprenger, Robyn Meadows, and Olivia Gawrych
Noninsulinoma Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemia Syndrome Emerging Post-Nissen Fundoplication, Jean Carlos Ramos-Cardona, Memona Rafiq, and Suzanne Quinn Martinez
Normal Glycosylated Hemoglobin Masking Glucose Dysregulation in a Patient with Pancreatic and Hematologic Disease, Jean Carlos Ramos-Cardona, Jacqueline Gilmore, Tathana Rivera Hernandez, and Suzanne Martinez
Perioperative Cannabis Use in Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: Practical Guidance in an Evolving Evidence Base, Ralph Wesley Vosburg, L Aylward, and C J. Northup
Posterior Splenic Abscess Leak Causing Salmonella Group B Peritonitis in an Immunocompetent Young Adult, Michael W. Alchaer, Paul E. Farag, In Soon Park, and Thomas A. Abbruzzese
Practice Versus Protocol: A Survey of Current Botulinum Toxin Use During Lactation and Pregnancy in Dermatology, Jennifer Cucalon, Drew Taylor, Stanislav N Tolkachjov, Moises Lutwak, and Eduardo Weiss
Prediabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease: A Comprehensive Review of Association and Clinical Implications, Boney J. Lapsiwala, Pratiksha Shankarlal Nathani, Ami Bhalodia, Anvitha Rangan, Pratik Rajpopat, Fazal Khan, Utsav Vaghani, Sai Gautham Kanagala, Deepak Chandramohan, Roopa Naik, Atul Bali, Veeranna Vibhuti, and Rupak Desai
Presentations of Cutaneous Disease in Various Skin Pigmentations: Keratosis Pilaris, Henry Lim, Reem Ayoub, Madelyn Richards, Marshall Hall, Christian Scheufele, Dustin Wilkes, Michael Carletti, and Stephen E. Weis
Presentations of Cutaneous Disease in Various Skin Pigmentations: Tinea Corporis, Braden Van Alfen, Navya Peddireddy, Marshall Hall, Henry Lim, Christian Scheufele, Garrett Furth, Dustin Wilkes, Michael Carletti, and Stephen E. Weis
Prostate Cancer and CAR-T Therapy: A Systematic Review, Farigol Hakem Zadeh, Nikita Shah, and Victoria Bird
Recurrent Foreign Body Ingestion and Transstomal Insertion in a Patient with End Ileostomy: An Image Case, Yeshika Thapa, Jyoti Yadav, Harsimran Kalsi, Geran Maule, Yvette Bazikian, Yaseen Perbtani, and Tony Brar
Recurrent Myocardial Infarction: In-Hospital Mortality, Cardiovascular Complications, and Comorbidity Profiles, Abhinav Singh, Nameer Ascandar, Anton Lishmanov, Shaival Thakore, and Olugbenga Oyesanmi
Replicability of Highly Cited Comparative Studies in Orthopedic Journals, Cody Ashy, William E. Few, Gabriella A. Rivas, Emily Brennan, Langdon Hartsock, and Kristoff R. Reid
Right Internal Jugular Pulsed Field Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation in a Patient with an Inferior Vena Cava Filter, Jeong Hwan J. Kim, Leili Pourafkari, Jonathan Lalezari, and Ali Sovari
Safety and Feasibility of Same-Admission Transcarotid Arterial Revascularization Prior to Heart Surgery for Patients Presenting With Concurrent, Severe Carotid Artery Stenosis, and Surgical Cardiac Disease, Brittany Landavazo, Matthew D. Kenny, Chandler Vernon, Nicolas Zea, David Nation, Bradley Boone, Jeff Apple, Kofi Quaye, Shir Yelovitch, and Ryan S. Turley
Short Term Outcomes and Resource Utilization in Patients Admitted for Infective Endocarditis Who Develop Pericardial Effusion: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Nameer Ascandar, Sajog Kansakar, Waqas Qureshi, Aakash Patel, Ahmed O Farooq, Brett Milford, Suman Pasupuleti, and Eduardo Lazaro
Successful Retrieval of a Drifting Dislodged Leadless Pacemaker From the Left Common Iliac Artery, Michael W. Alchaer, Christina Mayberry, Mackenzie Elting, Thomas A. Abbruzzese, and Paul E. Farag
Surgery Day, Cara M. MacDonald
The Art of Nursing, Janna L. Billetdeaux
The Efficacy of the Fitzpatrick Scale in Clinical Practice, Dana Olsen, Cecilia Nguyen, Marshall Hall, Michael Carletti, and Stephen E. Weis
The Global Health Case Report, Tulsi Patel, Nathan Douthit, Keren Mazuz, Issakwisa Mwakyula, Edgar Landa Ramirez, Royson DSouza, Zeus Aranda, Jaime Guevara-Aguirre, Taha F. Rasul, Sakviseth Bin, Vijay Anand Ismavel, and Seema Biswas
The Impact of COVID-19 on Alcohol-related Morbidity and Mortality: A Multicenter Study, Abhinav K. Rao, Erica Paulos, Nancy Crossley, and Don C. Rockey
The Wave, Brittany Gavin
Ultrasound Guided Erector Spinae Plane Block for Pain Management in the Emergency Department: A Scoping Review, Richard J Gawel, Zhengqiu Zhou, Claudia C. Urban, Joshua Middleton, and Michael Shalaby
Under Chiron's Care, Deethya Trivedi
Understanding Disparities in Simulation Through Minority Stress Theory: A Conceptual Framework, Remy Roe
Valproic Acid and Famotidine Drug-Drug Interaction: Report of a Pediatric Case, Mirei Kato, Lisa Mannina, Shelease O'Bryant, David Hart, and Amber Mirajkar
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