Submissions from 2023
In-hospital Stroke and Mortality Trends After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation in the United States from 2017 to 2019, Jose L. Lopez, Justin Mark, Waseem Wahood, Nader Lamaa, and Mauricio Danckers
Role of Genetic Polymorphisms in Clopidogrel Response Variability: A Systematic Review., Jose Lopez, Justin Mark, Gustavo J Duarte, Mohammed Shaban, Franklin Sosa, Rishabh Mishra, Swati Jain, An Tran, Asma Khizar, Daniel Karpel, Giancarlo Acosta, and Miguel Rodriguez-Guerra
From Pest Control to Poison Control: A Novel Case Report of Delayed Carbamate Poisoning., Kashan Mahmood, Erin Marra, Taylor Craig, and Gaurav Patel
The Treatment of REM Sleep Disorder Using Neuromodulation: A Literature Review, Aaron Marbin, Shane Ragland, Orestes Hadjistamoulou, Clara Alvarez Villalba, and Samuel Neuhut
The Treatment of Depression in Alzheimer's Disease Using Neuromodulation: A Literature Review, Aaron Marbn, Shane Ragland, Thalia Adrian, Clara Alvarez Villalba, and Samuel Neuhut
Race/Ethnicity and Morbidity/Mortality in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: 2016 USA Study, Victorien Meray and Rupa Seetharamaiah
Cannabis Consumption and the Emergence of Giant Lung Bullae: A Case Report and Clinical Analysis, Rafael Miret, Jose Rodriguez Castro, Armando Cabrera, Mauricio Danckers, Raiko Diaz, and Nikhil Bhardwaj
Pancytopenia, enterovirus infection, and PCR testing, Stephen Mock, Salome Herzstein, and Andrea Horbey
MIS Calcaneal Fracture Repair: A Literature Review, Nehal Modha, Roshni Patel, and Warren Windram
Optimal Fixation Requirements for Lapidus Bunionectomies: A Comprehensive Review and Analysis, Nehal Modha, Diego Peralta, and Warren Windram
Current Treatment Options for AVN (Freiberg's Infraction) of the Second Metatarsophalangeal Joint, Nehal Modha, Fahad Rahman, and Warren Windram
Current Concepts of Treatment for Foot and Ankle Arthritis, Nehal Modha and Warren Windram
Plantar Plate Injury: Current Treatment Options, Nehal Modha and Warren Windram
Combination of Chemotherapeutic Agents and Biological Response Modifiers (Immunotherapy) in Triple-Negative/Her2( +) Breast Cancer, Multiple Myeloma, and Non-small-cell Lung Cancer, William Morse, Haroon Nawaz, and Ayesha A Choudhry
A Case of Phlegmasia Cerulea Dolens, Stefanie Navarrete
A Young Case of Giant Cell Arteritis, Tricia O'Brien, Philip Mesquita, and Zahid Chaudhry
A Stiff Lower Lip, Tricia O'Brien, Philip Mesquita, and Zahid Chaudry
Microscopic Extraovarian Sex Cord Proliferations, Tricia O'Brien, Cameron Summers-Powell, and Susana Ferra
The Emboli Does Not Fall Far From The Vegetation: A Case of Infective Endocarditis Causing Acute Myocardial Infarction, Shivaan Oomrigar, Roger A. Rojas Rodriguez, Tommy Macias, and Diego Bonilla
Pearls and Pitfalls of an Orthopaedic Mission Trip, Adam Pearl and Khaled Saleh
The Location and Incidence of Neuromas as related to Metatarsal Juxtaposition on Radiographs: a Prospective Review of consecutively enrolled patients, Giacat Pham, Taylor Bergstrom, Liz Connolly, JiHae Kim, Spencer Stringham, Josh Joseph, Kaitlin Thompson, and Hisham Ashry
A Case of Grave's Thyrotoxicosis-Induced Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Presenting with Cardiac Arrest After Winning the Lottery, David Philippides, Angelina Hong, Amanda Eukovich, and Ali Chaudhry
Thromboembolic Stroke from Aberrant Sternotomy Wire, Andreea Popa, Ana Pineda, and Murtaza Akhter
A Case of Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis Masquerading as Community Acquired Pneumonia, Brianna Probasco, Veniamin Melnychuk, Angelina Hong, Abanoub Gabra, and Scott Lieberman
Managing Recurrent Delayed Pleural Effusion Post Rib Fracture in an Elderly Female, Yaseen Ramadan, Fnu Swatisikta, and Mushfeka Baker Golawala
Costoclavicular Brachial Plexus Block Facilitates Painless Upper Extremity Reduction: A Case Report, Matthew Townsend Reeves, Katherine O'Neil, and Todd Slesinger
Pain in the Back – A Rare Case of Atraumatic Paraspinal Compartment Syndrome, Muhammad Rehan and Jodi Perry
Fever of Unknown Origin Secondary to Staphylococcus Epidermidis Infective Endocarditis in a Patient with Aicardi Syndrome, Kimberly Sanchez Lopez, Elvis Caraballo Antonio, Gabriel Barciela Perez, Melanio J. Rodriguez, and Yeissen Godinez
Medication Cost Reduction and Substitution Strategies through the MyMetRx Program at Catholic Hospice, Ana M. Sanchez Monroig, Tracy Romanello, Joseph Solien, Sanaz Kashan, and Angel E. Sanchez Artiles
Ileocecal Mesentery Arteriovenous Malformation as a Rare Cause of Ectopic Variceal Bleeding in a 58-Year-Old Male With Cirrhosis., Luis E. Santiago, Ali Tariq Alvi, Angelina Hong, Anthony Pasarin, and Pallavi Aneja
Acute Fulminant Cerebral Edema Caused by Influenza Type B in an 18-Year-Old Female: A Rare Case, Luis E. Santiago, Ali Tariq Alvi, Zahid Nadeem, and Ali Chaudhry
An Unusual Case of Nonbacterial Thrombotic Endocarditis Attributable to Malignancy, Luis Santiago, Winy Kujundzic, Stephanie Wong, Samyukta Swaminath, and Pallavi Aneja
An Unusual Case of Haemophilus parainfluenzae Endocarditis in a Young Patient With Crohn’s Disease, Vishrut Shah, Garry Berdichevskiy, Veronica Abello, Hasnan M. Ijaz, Ihtisham Khalid, Mustafa Rahim, Muntaha Asif, and Henry Cusnir
Short QT Syndrome (SQTS), George Shaker, Igbayilola Dosunmu, Jason Kim, Tiffany Guillen, and Kevin Kuang
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emergency Department Encounters in a Major Metropolitan Area, Jeffrey R Stowell, Michael B Henry, Paul Pugsley, Jennifer Edwards, Heather Burton, Craig Norquist, Eric D Katz, B Witkind Koenig, Sandra Indermuhle, Vignesh Subbian, Hamid Ghaderi, and Murtaza Akhter
Urinary Ascites in a Newborn Male, Amanda Stragnell, Querube Santana-Holcombe, and Annette Santiago
Cauda Equina Neuroendocrine Tumor (Paraganglioma), Cameron Summers-Powell, Tricia O'Brien, and Susana Ferra
Challenges of Cerebral Hyperperfusion Syndrome: A Clinical Case Report, Ruth Williams and Ranga Rathakrishnan
Extra-axial Desmoplastic/Nodular Medulloblastoma, SHH-activated in adult: a case report, Gul Wymer, Fatemeh Mousavi, and Jennifer Barker
Fumarate-Hydratase Deficient Leiomyoma – An Opportunity to Intervene, Gul Wymer, Brittany Nagel, and Susana Ferra
Comparing the expression of ER, PR, HER-2 between initial biopsy and excision specimens in invasive breast carcinoma cases. Is there a need for universal repeat testing?, Gul Wymer, Astrid Sacasa, and Susana Ferra
The Impact of Demographic Factors and Language on Stroke Metrics within the HCA Healthcare System, Henry Yelkin, Glenn Goodwin, Jonghoon Chang, McHenry Mauger, and Erin Marra
Submissions from 2022
Challenges in Treating Opioid Use Disorder Beyond the Waiver., Murtaza Akhter and Eleanor Fernandez Dunham
Acute Multiple Sclerosis Exacerbation After Vaccination With the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine: Novel Presentation and First Documented Case Report, Younus Al-Midfai, Winy Kujundzic, Simrun Uppal, Darby Oakes, and Sardinas Giezy
Acute Pancreatitis After Bariatric Surgery: Case Report and Rare Presentation, Younus Al-Midfai, Darby Oakes, Simrun Uppal, and Carlos A. Lopez
The First Documented Case of Marchiafava-Bignami Disease with Concurrent Bilateral Deep Vein Thrombosis, Younus Al-Midfai, Gehan A. Pendlebury, Peter Oro, Kerstyn Ludlow, and Jose Urrutia-Madrid
A Body Now, Perhaps Once Someone, Pallavi Aneja
Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody (ANCA)-Associated Aortitis Presenting With Acute Dissection: Case Report and Comprehensive Literature Review, Obteene Azimi-Ghomi and Jorge De La Portilla
Charles Bonnet Syndrome Associated with Recurrent Hypertensive Crisis, Charmi Balsara, Alexander Shahin, Niharika Baviriseaty, Richard Czuma, and Gregory A Sullivan
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Adults: A Case Report and Review of the Literature, Fardad Behzadi, Nicolas A. Ulloa, and Mauricio Danckers
Bullous Pemphigoid: A Spontaneous Presentation in a Patient With Chronic Kidney Disease., Brett Brazen, Ariel Kidron, Zakaria Sheikh, Vikeerna Kamatgi, and Sann Htoo
Hospital Readmission in Alcohol Use Disorder Patients: The Role of Anti-Craving Medications and Discharge Disposition, Jordan Calabrese, Jonathon Brown, Mashtura Hasan, Samuel Neuhut, and Young Jo
Delayed Complication of Iliac Artery Aneurysm Repair- From Critical Limb Ischemia to Mixed shock: A Case Report, Maria C. Canizares-Otero, Floyd Osterman, and Mauricio Danckers
Acute Esophageal Necrosis Following Acetaminophen Overdose: An Unreported Cause of Black Esophagus, Karolina N. Dziadkowiec, Renuka Reddy, and Akiva J. Marcus
Gender Dysphoria Versus Acute Psychosis: Can One Properly Diagnose Gender Dysphoria Solely During Acute Psychosis?, Kristy A. Fisher, Samantha Scemla, Clara L. Alvarez Villalba, and Jessica Kroin
Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease After Receiving the Second Dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Andrea J. Folds, Melanie-Belle Ullrich, Sann Htoo, and Anjeza Chukus
Quadriplegia from Cervical Osteomyelodiscitis with Vertebral Collapse: A Case Report, Danay Herrera, Jose M. Acosta, Davide Fox, Livasky Concepcion Perez, and Jessica Hughes
Suspected Anaphylactic Reaction Following Second Dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech (BNT162b2) Coronavirus Vaccine in a Geriatric Female, Angelina Hong and Giezy Sardinas
Emergency Medicine Training in Homelessness, Olivia Igoe and Murtaza Akhter
Integration of Palliative Care Triggers in a Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Michele M. Iguina, Aunie Danyalian, Umair Shaikh, Sanaz Kashan, and Mauricio Danckers
Consideration for Hemiballismus in the Differential Diagnosis: A Rare Case of Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemic State, Iman Isayli, Nicolas A. Ulloa, and John Childress
Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum, Heidy Izquierdo, David Cotto Velez, Ilde Manuel Lee, and Sabrina Arshed
Outcomes of Minority COVID-19 patients managed with ECMO: A single-center experience., Can Jones, Yingyot Arora, Renuka Reddy, Claudia Tereja, Cristiano Faber, Vijay Narandran, Sajid Mirza, Waqas Ghumman, Robert Chait, and Kai Chen
Case Series of Quadricuspid Aortic Valve, Ihtisham Khalid, Hasnan M. Ijaz, Poonam Choudhry, Aaiz Hussain, James McAlister Iii, Ahmed Mahmood, Mustafa Rahim, and Henry Cusnir
A Case Report and Review: Charles Bonnet Syndrome Plus With Dementia, Sindhura Kompella, Shivani Kaushal, Sara A. Khan, and Clara L. Alvarez Villalba
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
COVID: Health Inequities Exposed and How We Can Do Better, Timothy McNamara, Kara Mann, and Josephin Mathai
Cocaine Use and Incarceration: A Rare Cause of Bowel Ischemia, Perforation, and Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage, Pavan Naidu, Lexi Frankel, Summer Roorda, and Mark McKenney
Case Report of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae Lung Parenchyma infection in an immunocompetent 64-year-old Male with a Zenker Diverticulum, Haroon Nawaz, Ayesha Choudhry, and William Morse
Central Nervous System Recurrence in a Patient Treated for Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia, Resulting in Sideroblastic Anemia: A Case Report, Haroon Nawaz, Ayesha Choudhry, and William J. Morse
Do Admitted COVID-19-Positive Patients on Anticoagulation Therapy Have a Reduced Hospital Stay and Disease Severity?, Haroon Nawaz, Ayesha Choudhry, William Morse, Oskar Zarnowski, Harsh Patel, and Harshad Amin
Assessing the Effect of a Hospice and Palliative Medicine Curriculum on Emergency Medicine Residents' Knowledge., David Nguyen and Thomas Matese Jr.
A Case of Metastatic CNS Melanoma of Unknown Primary Presenting with Seizures., Viva Nguyen, Samar Aboulenain, Shawn Mohammed, and Sahyli Perez Parra
The Impact of COVID-19 in the Latinx Community, Laura Pedraza, Ricardo Villela, Vikki Kamatgi, Kaitlyn Cocuzzo, Ricardo Correa, and Miriam Zylberglait Lisigurski
Pulmonary Cement Emboli Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock Following Percutaneous Kyphoplasty, Renuka Reddy, Purva Sharma, Gustavo Avila, and Yash Jobanputra
Acute Appendicitis Presenting with MIS-C Secondary to COVID-19, Amanda Sturgill, Rachael M. Cannon, Shivani Patel, Andrea Horbey, Raymund Chua, Dilsa Souffrant, and Stephanie Davenport
COVID-19 Vaccination: The Latinx Experience, Miriam Zylberglait Lisigurski and Ricardo Correa
Submissions from 2021
Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness: Florida's Lyme Disease Variant., Ramy Abdelmaseih, Bilal Ashraf, Randa Abdelmasih, Sandi Dunn, and Hesham Nasser
Optimizing Cost as well as Yield of Blood Cultures in Sepsis, Murtaza Akhter and Matthew P Cheng
A body now, perhaps once someone, Pallavi Aneja MD
Jacuzzi-Induced Pneumoperitoneum: Case Report and Literature Review, Obteene Azimi-Ghomi, Dieter Brummund, Vasiliy Ovakimyan, and Gerardo Kahane
Traumatic Abdominal Wall Hernia Caused by a Low Fall, Obteene Azimi-Ghomi, John D. Ehrhardt Jr, and Shaikh Hai
HELLP! The Novel Use of Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy and Nitric Oxide in the Treatment of Acute Respiratory Failure in HELLP Syndrome., Obteene Azimi-Ghomi, Glenn Miller, Carlos Guida, Adrian Marimon, Dessislava Boneva, and Mark McKenney
Administration of Ketamine for Depression Should be Limited to Psychiatrists, Brian Blum and Jessica Grey
Pacemaker Lead Migration and Ventricular Perforation in a Patient Presenting with Chest Pain., Maria C. Cañizares-Otero and Mauricio Danckers
Rare Left-Sided Gastroschisis with Isolated Omental Herniation, Rachael M. Cannon, Alexa Mitzner, and Jill Whitehouse
Radiological and Pathological Diagnosis of an Incidental Askin Tumor, Brian Covello, Steven Hartman, Sean Kaufman, and Orlando Enrizo
A Case of Bilateral Renal Oncocytomas in the Setting of Birt-Hogg-Dube Syndrome, Brian Covello, Sean Kaufman, Elizabeth Whittington, and Orlando Enrizo
Fluoroscopic Angiography Assessment, Protocols, and Interpretation, Brian Covello and Brett McKeon
Virtual Medical Student Radiology Clerkships During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Distancing is Not a Barrier, Susana Creagh, Nicholas Pigg, Claudia L. Gordillo, and James Banks
Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation, Aunie Danyalian and Felix Hernandez
Fulminant Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus Aureus Infection: From Pinprick to Multi-organ Failure, Aunie Danyalian, Ivett Padron, Patricia Almeida, and Mauricio Danckers
Acute Esophageal Necrosis Following Acetaminophen Overdose: An Unreported Cause of Black Esophagus, Karolina Dziadkowiec, Renuka Reddy, and Akiva Marcus
Empagliflozin-Associated Pancreatitis: A Consideration for SGLT2 Inhibitors., Karolina Dziadkowiec, Peter Stawinski, and Jose Proenza
Building HCA Bridges, Lorraine Fugazzi
Building HCA Bridges, Lorraine Fugazzi
Point-of-Care Ultrasound Assisting in the Rapid Diagnosis of Acute Cholangitis 60 Years After Cholecystectomy., Nikkitta Georges, Carissa Ford, Moises Moreno, and Sara Zagroba
A Revamping of an Old Practice: Head-Up CPR, Glenn Goodwin and Charles Latimore
ITP vs. VITT: Rare but Distinct Conditions Associated with the COVID-19 Vaccines, Glenn Goodwin, Charles Latimore, and Annalee Baker