Cardiology

A Unique Case of a Right Atrial Myxoma Infected With Escherichia coli, Masi Javeed, Hanan Gruhonjic, Taylor Kirkman, Christos Pitarys, and Rami Akel

Complications of TAVR From an Anesthesia Perspective, David R. Kingery Jr., Alex Roberts, Derek Horstemeyer, and Russell Stahl

Cardiac Arrest Due to Massive Aspiration from a Broncho-esophageal Fistula: A Case Report, Gustavo Lagrotta, Mina Ayad, Ifrah Butt, and Mauricio Danckers

Impact of Left Bundle Branch Block in Takotsubo Syndrome, Jose L. Lopez, Gustavo J Duarte, Rosario A Colombo, Andrea J. Folds, Fergie Ramos Tuarez, and Robert Chait

Infected Retained Catheter-Related Sheath, an Underrecognized Complication of Central Venous Catheter Insertion: A Case Report., Omar Obaid, James Skorczewski, Akash Patel, and Matthew Meleka

Can Milking-Like Effect Be the First Clue of a Ventricular Free Wall Rupture?, Ramses Damera Ramirez, Alexander Kong, Muhammad Ijlal Khan, Hiren Patel, and Aamir Javaid

Watchman Device Dislodgement Creating a Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction Requiring Emergency Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Alex Roberts, Steven Mach, Jason Goebel, Heather Palomino, and Derek Horstemeyer

COVID-19 and the Cardiovascular System: An Update, Joshua K. Salabei, Zekarias T. Asnake, Zeeshan Ismail, Kipson Richard Charles, Gregory Thomas C. Stanger, Abdullahi H. Abdullahi, Andrew T. Abraham, and Peters Okonoboh

Improving Appropriate Utilization of Telemetry: Quality Improvement Project, Carlos Vargas, Haris Ahmed, Kashmala Khan, Francis Dimtri, Ahmed Mahmood, Jeffery S. Durbin, Christel Cuevas, and Thomas Alexander

Submissions from 2021 2021

Cardiovascular Outcomes With Anti-Inflammatory Therapies: Review of Literature., Ramy Abdelmaseih, Mrhaf Alsamman, Mohammed A. Faluk, and Syed Mustajab Hasan

Cardio-oncology: Capecitabine Can Sometimes be Heatbreaking Capecitabine-Induced Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Case Report and Literature Review., Ramy Abdelmaseih, Anamarys Blanco, Randa Abdelmasih, Krutika Desai, Joshua J. Pothen, Jay Patel, and Rama Balaraman

Perspectives on Heyde's Syndrome and Calcific Aortic Valve Disease, Ramy Abdelmaseih, Ravi Thakker, Randa Abdelmasih, Arroj Ali, and S Mustajab Hasan

Update on the Cardiovascular Benefits of Sodium-Glucose Co-Transporter-2 Inhibitors: Mechanism of Action, Available Agents and Comprehensive Review of Literature, Randa Abdelmasih, Ramy Abdelmaseih, Ravi Thakker, Mohammed Faluk, Arroj Ali, Morhaf Alsamman, and Syed M. Hasan

Round Atelectasis: A Peculiar Pseudotumor Seen on Echocardiogram, Nardine Abdelsayed, Larissa Check, and Mohamed Faris

A Dilemma of Hemorrhage vs Thrombosis: A Case of Watchman Device Thrombus in a Patient with Intracranial Hemorrhage History, Tamer A. Amer, Caitlin Merrin Romeo, Zaw Win Tun, Mena Yacoub, Ali Ebrahimi, and George Degheim

Systemic Vasospasms Induced by Vasopressor Therapy Resulting in Diffuse Tissue Necrosis and Death: A Case Report and Review of the Literature, Muhammad U. Arian, Christopher S. Medina, George Matus, Akash Hazari, Luis Chozet, and Fahad Omar

Repeat Episodes of Massive Hemoptysis Due to an Anomalous Origin of the Right Bronchial Artery in a Patient with a History of Coccidioidomycosis, Blerina Asllanaj, Elizabeth Jane Benge MD, Yi McWhorter, and Sapna Bhatia

Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System Blockers Prior to Hospitalization and Their Association With Clinical Outcomes in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Ranjit Banwait, Devina Singh, Anamarys Blanco MD, Vaibhav Rastogi, and Khalid Abusaada

Pharyngitis Workup Leads to the Discovery of Massive Tricuspid Vegetation, Matthew M Barvo, Jacob Pletz, Gbemisola Johnson, and Muhammad Ayyaz

Fulminant Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus Aureus Infection: From Pinprick to Multi-organ Failure, Aunie Danyalian, Ivett Padron, Patricia Almeida, and Mauricio Danckers

Mechanical Circulatory Assist Devices: Available Modalities and Review of Literature, Mohammed A. Faluk, Syed Mustajab Hasan, Tianyu Jiang, Ramy Abdelmaseih, and Jigar H. Patel MD

Alarming trends in the frequency of malignant hypertension among admissions with a known cannabis use disorder., Hee Kong Fong, Muhammad Uzair Lodhi, Venkata Neelima Kothapudi, Sandeep Singh, and Rupak Desai

Repolarization Vulnerability is Rarely Observed in COVID-19 Patients With Low Comorbidity Treated with A Combination of Hydroxychloroquine Azithromycin, David Goldgrab, Sokol Kalaveshi, Ruifang Yang MD, Jearim Craig, Mauricio Gomez, Stephen Mester, and Christian Perzanowski

Myocardial Bridging, the Hidden Risk Factor for Ischemia., Vincenzo C. Happach, Gerald Delk, and Latha Ganti

Methamphetamine Associated Cardiomyopathy in Pregnancy: The Distinctions and the Implications, Ashan Hatharasinghe and Hossein Akhondi

An Assessment of the Diagnostic Value in Syncope Workup: A Retrospective Study, Ashan T. Hatharasinghe, Kayvon Etebar, Ryan Wolsky, Hossein Akhondi, and Napatkamon Ayutyanont

Incessant Refractory Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft, Michele M. Iguina, Shaun Smithson, and Mauricio Danckers

Complex Clinical Course of Unsuccessfully Revascularized Right Coronary Artery, Ana Inashvili, Ruifang Yang, Benjamin Kilpatrick, David Goldgrab, Hector Garza, Mauricio Gomez, Christian Perzanowski, Tehreen Khan, William Bugni, and Stephen Mester

Malignant Multivessel Coronary Spasm, Ana Inashvili, Ruifang Yang, Benjamin Kilpatrick, David Goldgrab, Hector Garza, Devansh Patel, Tehreen Khan, Robert Dewhurst, Stephen Mester, and William Bugni

Remdesivir-Induced Symptomatic Bradycardia in the Treatment of COVID-19 Disease, Jomel Jacinto, Milan Patel, Justin Hao Goh, and Kenneth Yamamura

Ice Cold AFib, Dana M. Jorgenson, Tamer A. Amer, and Marshall Marcus

Critical Limb Ischemia in a Young Patient With a Mechanical Aortic Valve Leading to Bilateral Above-Knee Amputation, Shiwani Kamath, Abid Ulhaque, Rias Ali, and Johnathan frunzi

Bee Attack or Heart Attack: Kounis Syndrome, Kashmala Khan, Gabor Szalai, Humayun Anjum, Francis Dimtri, Deanna Yamamura, and Salim Surani

Reverse Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in the Setting of Acute Asthma Exacerbation, Muhammad Khan, Alexander Howell, Thuy Pham, and Nilmarie Guzman

A Rare Presentation of an Acute Type A Aortic Dissection Obscured Due to the Simultaneous Presence of Acute Pancreatitis, Amrin M. Kharawala, Nirav Brahmbhatt, Huzefa Bhopalwala, Nakeya Dewaswala, Adnan Bhopalwala, Waqas Ghumman, and Robert Dean Chait

Rapidly Enlarging Mycotic Coronary Artery Aneurysm Caused by Bacterial Seeding Involving Methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus Aureus and Klebsiella Pneumoniae, Taylor Kirkman, Mohammad Ahmad, Masi Javeed, Sudhir Agarwal, and Rami Akel

Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in a Patient With Coronary Sinus Ostial Stenosis, Robert Kleyman, Thomas Galante, and Kenneth Yamamura

Acute on Chronic Theophylline Toxicity in an Elderly Patient, Alexander Kong, somshukla ghosh, Chelsea Guan, Brittany L. Fries, and Floyd W. Burke

A Growing Two-Decade-Old True Left Ventricular Aneurysm: A Case Report, Alexander Kong, Ramses Ramirez Damera, Alberto Perez Buitrago, Hiep C. Nguyen, and Sayed T. Hussain

Is Endurance Training Harmful to Older Athletes in the Long Run? An Interesting Case of Exercise-Induced Ventricular Tachycardia, Nader Lamaa, Jose L. Lopez, Amer Zeizoun, and Kenneth Zide

Transverse Sinus Thrombosis While on Anticoagulation: A Case Report, Justin Little and Andrew Mangano

Extensive Coronary Thrombosis as a Sequelae of COVID-19 Presenting as a STEMI., Muhammad Madkour, Javad Savoj, Syed Iftikhar, and Alain Waked

Trichobezoer: An Unusual Presentation with Congestive Heart Failure, Madeeha Malik, Fatima Javed, Bassam Helou, and Furrukh Malik

Sex-Based Differences in the Presentation of Myocardial Infarction, Jeremy Mayfield, Muneet Gill, Helen J. Zhang, and Latha Ganti

Recurrent Hiatal Hernia Resulting in Rightward Mediastinal Shift: Diagnostics in Cardiology and Clinical Pearls., Divy Mehra, Javier Alvarado, Yanet Diaz-Martell, Lino Saavedra, and James Davenport

A Case of Hemodynamically Unstable Sick Sinus Syndrome Secondary to Refeeding Syndrome, Michael Mgerian, Suzanne Havican, Frances Wolf, and Nioti Karim

Do Certain Biomarkers Predict Adverse Outcomes in Coronavirus Disease 2019?, Hiba Narvel, Anam Sayed, Nida Narvel, Shreyas Yakkali, and Tasleem Katchi

A 78-Year-Old Man with a Pulmonary Embolism Who Developed Skin Necrosis 7 Days After Treatment with the Direct Oral Anticoagulant Factor Xa Inhibitor Apixaban., Tusharkumar Pansuriya, Trung Nguyen, Mir Ali Sadat, Syed A Raza, and Sivatej Sarva

Same Day Surgery and Discharge After Cardiac Device Implantation, Aakash Patel, Blair Warren, Amar Patel, Alina Babar, Rony Shah, Olu Oyesanmi, and Suman Pasupuleti

An Atypical Etiology of Acute Pericarditis: A Case Report, Shelley Persaud, Bir Partap Singh, and Debra Angelo

Anomalous Origin of the Right Coronary Artery From the Ascending Aorta Above the Left Sinus of Valsalva, Ramses Ramirez Damera, Muhammad Ijlal Khan, Kay T. Kline, and Neelma Katukuri

Chest Pain from Pneumopericardium with Gastropericardial Fistula, Abdullah Rathur, Hussein Al-Mohamad, Jeffrey Steinhoff, and Ronald Walsh

Progressive Collateral Stenosis Leading to Symptomatic Chronic Total Occlusion, Farhan Shah and Andrew Maiolo

Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Pulmonary Hypertension: A Review of Literature, Farhan Shah, Shaidy Moronta, Michalla Braford, and Nelson Greene

Not Just Contaminant: A Rare Case of Corynebacterium Endocarditis of a Native Valve, Samantha I. Smith and William Cox

Barriers to Care in Resistant Hypertension, Alice I. Solademi-Dunkle and Sarah Turner

Systemic Inflammation-Related Bradycardia in COVID-19, Ashwin Srinivasan, Tusharkumar Pansuriya, Branden Wilson, Siva Sarva, Turuvekere Jayaram, Salman Alim, Ramesh Kesavan, and Syed Raza

Ventricular Standstill in a Patient with Infective Endocarditis, Gauthier L. Stepman, Jinal K. Patel, Shiwani Kamath, Francisco Abreu Brea, and Rene Kunhardt

Ventricular Standstill in Infective Endocarditis, Gauthier L. Stepman, Jinal K. Patel, Shiwani Kamath, Rene Kunhardt, Francisco Abreu Brea, and Johnathan frunzi

Use of Intravenous Antihypertensive in Hospitalized Patients, Kelsi Thompson, Julien A. Exposito, Oliver Fowler, Jose Nicolas Codolosa, and Rahul Mhaskar

Impact of Intravenous Antihypertensives on Outcomes Among Hospitalized Patients, Kelsi Thompson, Julien A. Exposito, Oliver Fowler, Rahul Mhaskar, Liwei Chen, and Jose Nicolas Codolosa

All-Cause Mortality and Incidence of Major Adverse Cardiac Events in Sickle Cell Nephropathy: A Comparative Study, Kunjan Udani, Nayda Parisio Poldiak, Julia Campbell, Victor Collier, and Pooja M. Patel

Impact of Hyperthyroidism on In-Hospital Outcomes of Patients with Heart Failure, Kunjan Udani, Dveet Patel, Leslie Hart, and Vinod Nambudiri

A Retrospective Study of Admission NT-proBNP Levels as a Predictor of Readmission Rate, Length of Stay and Mortality, Kunjan Udani, Dveet Patel, and Andrew Mangano

Incidental Aorto-Left Atrial Appendage Fistula Complicating a Watchman Procedure, Blair Warren, Aakash Patel, Rony Shah, Suman Pasupuleti, Thomas Noel, Marilyn Cox, and Farhat Khairallah

Incidence, Clinical Characteristics, and Outcomes of New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation in Patients Hospitalized for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Ruifang Yang, Mauricio Gomez, Andrew Niclosi, David Goldgrab, Sokol Kalaveshi, Stephen Mester, and Christian Perzanowski

Submissions from 2020 2020

Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection in a Healthy Male: A Case Report and Literature Review, Ramy Abdelmaseih MD, S. Mustajab Hasan MD, Jay D. Patel D.O., Alauddin Elhag, and Jigar H. Patel M.D.

Implantable Loop Recorders for Cardiac Dysrhythmia Monitoring, Krishna Akella, Ghulam Murtaza, Domenico Della Rocca, Naresh Kodwani MD, Rakesh Gopinathannair, Andrea Natale, and Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy

Implementation of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign in Patients With Heart Failure: Gender-Specific Outcomes, Baher Al Abbasi, Pedro Torres, Fergie Ramos Tuarez, Kai Chen, Gustavo Avila, Endri Ceka, Andres R. Chacon, Gretchen De Diego, Charles R. Bornmann, Waqas Ghumman, Robert Chait, and Jesus Pino Moreno

Cardiac Troponin-I and COVID-19: A Prognostic Tool for In-Hospital Mortality, Baher Al Abbasi, Pedro Torres, Fergie Ramos Tuarez, Nakeya Dewaswala, Ahmed Abdallah, Kai Chen, Mohamed Abdul Qader, Riya Job, Samar Aboulenain, Karolina Dziadkowiec, Huzefa Bhopalwala, Jesus Pino Moreno, and Robert Chait

ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction in a 27-Year-Old Male With COVID-19, Mohammed Ali DO, Aisha Mujahid, Khalid Sherani MD, and Salim Surani MD

Ethacrynic Acid, Chade Aribo and Daniel Ng

Serial Point-of-care Echocardiography Performed by an Emergency Physician to Guide Thrombolytic Management of Massive Pulmonary Embolism, Annie Au, Patrick Hsu, Matthew McClure, Gabriel Cabrera, and Eric Kalivoda

Abdominal Aortic Repair, Dor M. Avishay and Joseph Reimon

A cycle dependent heart - A rare case of menstruation induced neurocardiogenic syncope., Jilla R. Azarbal, Gustavo A. Vargas, and James Davenport

Methamphetamine Associated Cardiovascular Complications, Andrew Barnes MD, Alina Babar, Rony Shah, Samantha Williams, Olu Oyesanmi, and Jeffery Jordan MD

Coronary Artery Anomalies, Robert Beecham, Stephanie Prater, and Juan Carlos Batlle

Unexpected Case of Critical Left Main Coronary Artery Dissection in a Young Woman, Ifrah Butt MD, Vahid Kazemi, Oranus Mohammadi, and Mauricio Danckers

A Case of Atrial Flutter with Diffuse ST Depression with ST Elevation in AVR, Jake N. Cho MD and Rakesh Prashad M.D.

Case Report: Left Atrial Myxoma Causing Elevated C-Reactive Protein, Fatigue and Fever, with Literature Review, Jake N. Cho, Steven Quach, Justin Reed, and Omeni Osian

Bedside Point of Care Ultrasound Diagnosing Bilateral Valve Involvement in Infective Endocarditis, Corey Cole, Alfredo Tirado, and Jonathan Schwadron

A Crescent Lesion Set Avoiding Esophageal Contact is not Inferior to Standard WACA for Paroxysmal Afib: A Pilot Study, Jeraim Craig, David Goldgrab DO, Sokol Kalaveshi, Ruifang Yang MD, Jose Luis Henao, Stephen Mester MD, and Christian Perzanowski MD

Diabetic Cardiomyopathy: Understanding the Independent Relationship Between Diabetes and Heart Failure, W. Tyler Crawley, Rage Geringer MD, Jason Snarr DO, Elizabeth Hicks MD, and Oliwier Dziadkowiec

Delayed Presentation of Coarctation of the Aorta, Aunie Danyalian, Ivan Pagan, Umair Shaikh, and Livasky Concepcion Perez

Prevalence, trends and in-hospital outcomes of takotsubo syndrome among United States cannabis users, Rupak Desai, Aakash Desai, Hee Kong Fong, Ahmed Mahmood, Vaishnavi Reddy Varakantam, Fariah Asha Haque, Sejal Savani, Kishorbhai Gangani, Gautam Kumar, and Rajesh Sachdeva

Nationwide Trends in Prevalent Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Diseases in Young Adults: Differences by Sex and Race and In-Hospital Outcomes., Rupak Desai, Upenkumar Patel, Tarang Parekh, Bishoy Hanna, Kranthi Sitammagari, Hee Kong Fong, Muhammad Uzair Lodhi, Yash Varma, Nanush Damarlapally, Rajkumar Doshi, Sejal Savani, Gautam Kumar, and Rajesh Sachdeva

A Complication of Acute Myocardial Infarction, Nakeya Dewaswala and Robert Dean Chait

A KINK IN THE SYSTEM: ENCOUNTERING AND CORRECTING A WATCHMAN PERIPROCEDURAL COMPLICATION, Francis Dimtri, Kashmala Khan, Carlos Vargas, Thomas Alexander, and Mossaab Shuraih

Kounis Syndrome, Charles Doerner, Mark Sawh, Tamer A. Amer, and Konstantinos Marmagkiolis

Evolution of Acute Pulmonary Embolism Management: Review Article, Mohammed A. Faluk MD, S. Mustajab Hasan MD, Jay J. Chacko MD, Ramy Abdelmaseih MD, and Jigar H. Patel MD

Challenges in Managing Acute Myocardial Infarction Associated With Infective Endocarditis: A Case Report, Mohammed A. Faluk, Steven Vuu, and Kiran Kathi

Combating Inpatient Vaccine Hesitancy: I Raised The Rates In My Cardiac Patients, Linda Ferrer, Giselle Falconi MD, Shivani Priyadarshni, dustin benyo, Daniel High, Kristi Pejo, Ajay Yechuri, Ruben Perez, and Bryan Curry

Sex disparities in cardiovascular disease outcomes among geriatric patients with prediabetes., Hee Kong Fong, Rupak Desai, Mohammed Faisaluddin, Tarang Parekh, Ahmed Mahmood, Vraj Shah, Priyal Shah, Vaishnavi Reddy Varakantam, Falah Abu Hassan, Sejal Savani, Rajkumar Doshi, and Kishorbhai Gangani

Nationwide trends in stroke hospitalizations among patients with prediabetes., Hee Kong Fong, Zainab Gandhi, Muhammad Uzair Lodhi, Sejal Savani, Virmitra Desai, and Rupak Desai

Recognizing Belhassen Ventricular Tachycardia and Preventing Its Misinterpretation as Supraventricular Tachycardia: An Unusual Case Report, Anthony Furiato, Alexander Prestley, Abdul Waheed, and Salvador Villanueva

COVID-19 Fears May Be Worse Than the Virus: A Case of Cardiogenic Shock Secondary to Post-Myocardial Infarction Ventricular Septum Rupture, Salem Gaballa MD, Avan Aljaf, Kashyap Patel, Jane Lindsay, and Kyaw M. Hlaing

Arrhythmia in Tumor Lysis Syndrome and Associated In‐Hospital Mortality: A Nationwide Inpatient Analysis, Kishorbhai Gangani, Hee Kong Fong, Mohammed Faisaluddin, Muhammad Uzair Lodhi, Pritika Manaktala, Ashish Sadolikar, Vraj Shah, Zainab Gandhi, Falah Abu Hassan, Sejal Savani, Rajkumar Doshi, and Rupak Desai

Aortic Dissection Presenting as Leg Pain, Nathan George, Latha Ganti MD, Michael Falgiani, and Bobby Desai