Submissions from 2023
A Case Report of Transient Amnesia Following Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage of the Fornix, Ali Abu-Alya, Vishnu Halthore, Tanvir Khosla, Devraj Chavda, and Venkatachalam Veerappan
Fluid Management in Septic Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension: Review of the Literature, Blerina Asllanaj, Elizabeth Benge, Jieun Bae, and Yi McWhorter
The Association of Psychiatric Comorbidities With Short-Term and Long-Term Outcomes Following Spinal Cord Stimulator Placement., Alexander Beletsky, Cherry Liu, Evan Alexander, Samir W Hassanin, Kim Vickery, Munish Loomba, Nutan Winston, Jeffrey Chen, and Rodney A Gabriel
My Heart, Mina Bhatnagar
Annular Rupture Due to Calcified Nodule Located in Left Ventricular Outflow Tract (LVOT) During Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) Managed by Protamine Sulfate., Sukhjinder Chauhan, Mina Bhatnagar, Talha N Jilani, and Jeffrey Levisman
COVID-19 Vaccination Decreased COVID-19 Hospital Length of Stay, In-Hospital Death, and Increased Home Discharge, Se Won Lee, Danny Ma, Adrian Davoodian, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, and Bryan Werner
A Case of Gabapentin-Induced Angioedema in a 31-year-old Female, Cristian Valdez, Andrew Kim, and Tony Alarcon
Submissions from 2022
Viral Myocarditis Mimicking ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Thrombocytopenia and Vasculitic Peripheral Neuropathy., Blerina Asllanaj, Eric Chang, Anthony Dota III, and Yi McWhorter
Myxedema Coma: A Rare Case of Shock Post-Pericardial Window Procedure, Blerina Asllanaj, Mark Olson, and Yi McWhorter
Non-Surgical Extirpation of a Non-Infectious Expanding Tricuspid Valve Mass by Percutaneous Aspiration Thrombectomy, Blerina Asllanaj, Alexander Urzua, Anthony Dota III, and Jeffrey Levisman
Symptomatic Improvement in Cicatricial Pemphigoid of the Trachea Achieved with Laser Ablation Bronchoscopy, Elizabeth Benge, Vincent Tran, Nazanin Sheikhan, Sapna Bhatia, Yi McWhorter, John Collier, and Arnold Chung
Muir-Torre Syndrome: Abdominal Sebaceous Carcinoma, An Bui, Shalini Shah, Nutan Winston, and Ahmed Mahmoud
Culture-Negative Primary Sternal Osteomyelitis in a Patient with Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, David H Chan, Michael T. Lee, Amy Q. Zhang, Erinn H. Ton, and Shyh-Jeun Wang
Autoimmune Hepatitis in the Setting of Iron Overload Secondary to Heterozygous HFE Gene Mutation, Sukhjinder Chauhan, Rasiq Zackria, and Deb Mukhopadhyay
An Unusual Case of an Acute Mesenteroaxial Gastric Volvulus Secondary to a Hiatal Hernia, Sukhjinder Chauhan, Rasiq Zackria, and John Ryan
Emergency Department Psychiatric Holds are Linked to Increased Emergency Department Violence, John Costumbrado, Nahal Nikroo, Shaokui Ge, and Gregory Guldner
Low-Dose Methotrexate Toxicity Presenting as Pancytopenia, Gundip S. Dhillon, Sukhjinder Chauhan, Yema Jalal, Youssef Ghobrial, and Birjees Ahmed
High-Pressure Injection Injury to the Hand – A Case Report, Cesar Fortuna, Derek Prince, Daniel Ng, and John Costumbrado
Portal Vein Thrombosis and Pyogenic Liver Abscess With Concomitant, Trad George, Nazanin Sheikhan, Andrew Nguyen, Jordan Valenta, and Homayon Iraninezhad
Home Brew Gone Wrong: A Case Report on Potential Auto-Brewery Syndrome Sequelae, Saif Ghias, Sobia Ashfaq, and Jasprit Takher
Impact of the Las Vegas Mass Shooting Event on the Graduate Medical Education Mission: Can There Be Growth from Tragedy?, Gregory Guldner, Suzanne Roozendaal, Ross P Berkeley, Michael P. Allswede, Kristina H Domanski, Obadha M Sairafe, Dylan F Davey, Hoda Abou-Ziab, and Jason T Siegel
Acute Right Ventricular Failure Immediately Following Subxiphoid Pericardial Window Requiring Temporary Cardiopulmonary Bypass Support: A Case Report of Pericardial Decompression Syndrome, Ashie Kapoor, Yi McWhorter, and Dean R. Polce
There’s an Eagle in my Throat!, Gulreen Kassoo, Ian Craven, and Andrew Sheep
A Case of Brugada Phenocopy in Adrenal Insufficiency-Related Pericarditis, Andrew Kim, Cristian Valdez, Tony Alarcon, Elizabeth Jane Benge, and Blerina Asllanaj
Ultrasound-Guided Thoracodorsal Nerve Block for Post-Breast Reconstruction Discomfort., Se Won Lee, Dan Nguyen, and Dennis Nguyen
Clinical Characteristics, Hospital Course, and Disposition of Patients with Nontraumatic Spinal Cord Injury in a Large Private Health Care System in the United States, Se Won Lee, Bryan Werner, Jonathan Holt, Akash Lohia, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, and Henry York
Opioid Utility and Hospital Outcomes among Inpatients admitted with Osteoarthritis and Spine Disorders., Se Won Lee, Bryan Werner, Dan Nguyen, Charles Wang, Mingon Kang, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, and Soohyoung Lee
Treatment of Male Hypogonadism with Clomiphene Citrate: Review Article, Andrey Manov and Elizabeth Benge
Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patient Complicated by Covid-19 Co-Infection, William Nawa, Ikechukwu Ogbu, Yuriy Nikiforov, and Ahmed A. Sagaslli
Spontaneous Heterotopic Pregnancy: Diagnosis and Management., Katie Nguyen, Marlekah Hudspeth, and Honey Milestone
Ovarian Torsion: Presentation and Management in a Pediatric Patient., Katie Nguyen, William L. Valentino, Duy Bui, and Honey Milestone
Tibial Spine Fracture in an Adolescent Male After Minor Injury: A Case Report, Alberto Nunez, Shayna Sleight, Zara Khan, Barbara Blasko, and Tommy Kim
To Drain or not to Drain? Point-of-care Ultrasound to Investigate an Axillary Mass: Case Report, Kishan Patel, Zara Khan, and John Costumbrado
Management of Blunt Traumatic Abdominal Wall Hernias: An Analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank, Manika Paul, Bhani K. Kondal, Ayutyanont Napatkamon, Nicholas Sheets, Ahmed Mahmoud, and David Plurad
The Effect of Adding Procalcitonin to the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (Sirs) and Quick Sepsis-Related Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) Scoring System in Predicting Sepsis Mortality., Pinak A. Shah, Shobhit Keswani, Leo Yamaguchi, Kartika Shetty, Elizabeth Jane Benge, Abdul Gheriani, Maycky Tang, Nazanin Sheikhan, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, Andrew Kim, Cristian Valdez, and Tony Alarcon
Foreign Body in the Glottis, Shalini Shah, Justin Howard, and Nutan Winston
Implementation of the I-PASS handoff program in diverse clinical environments: A multicenter prospective effectiveness implementation study., Amy J Starmer, Nancy D Spector, Jennifer K O'Toole, Zia Bismilla, Sharon Calaman, Maria-Lucia Campos, Maitreya Coffey, Lauren A Destino, Jennifer L Everhart, Jenna Goldstein, Dionne A Graham, Jennifer H Hepps, Eric E Howell, Nicholas Kuzma, Greg Maynard, Patrice Melvin, Shilpa J Patel, Alina Popa, Glenn Rosenbluth, Jeffrey L Schnipper, Theodore C Sectish, Rajendu Srivastava, Daniel C West, Clifton E Yu, and Christopher P Landrigan
Analysis of Myocardial Infarction and Myocardial Infarction Complications Before and During COVID-19 Pandemic from Multiple Hospitals, Magnus To, Timothy Ho, Omar Shahin, Hyunju Heineke, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, Javad Savoj, Syed Iftikhar, and Patrick Hu
A Broken Heart After Witnessing a Dying Heart: A Case of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy., Magnus To, Yolanda Zhang, Alexander Tompkins, Ruby Chen, Kaustubh Patankar, and Sandeep Sangodkar
Nephrolithiasis in Crohn's Disease Patients: A Review of the Literature, George Trad, Sukhjinder Chauhan, Matthew Brockway, Victoria Diaz, and Hatim Gemil
Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy, Rare Genetic Disorder: A Case Report, George Trad, Nazanin Sheikhan, Victoria Diaz, Eujean Park, and Hatim Gemil
A Rare Complication of Hemorrhagic Shock Following a Paracentesis: Case Report, George Trad, Nazanin Sheikhan, and Hatim Gemil
Serum Lactate Dehydrogenase Levels: The Grim Reaper Sign in Acute Pancreatitis?, George Trad, Nazanin Sheikhan, Abdul Gheriani, Ismail Hader, John Ryan, and Kartika Shetty
Acute Esophageal Necrosis Syndrome (Black Esophagus): A Case Report of Rare Presentation, George Trad, Nazanin Sheikhan, Jason Ma, Abdul Gheriani, and Ahmed A. Sagaslli
Nonsurgical Approach to Isolated Pancreatic Metastatic Malignant Melanoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature, George Trad, Nazanin Sheikhan, Andrew Nguyen, and Ismail Hader
Inferior STEMI Electrocardiogram in a Young Postpartum Female with Sickle Cell Trait with Chest Pain – A Case Report, Jessica Truong, Ryan Perdomo, Daniel Ng, Sassan Ghassemzadeh, and John Costumbrado
A Case of Bilateral Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis: More Than Meets the Eye, Jordan Valenta, Nazanin Sheikhan, George Trad, Matthew Brockway, and Ann Wierman
A Massive Retroperitoneal Mature Teratoma from a "Burned-out" Testicular Teratoma and Seminoma, William L. Valentino, Kristina Cendrowski, Veena Mandava, and Justin Wei
A Curious Case of T2-FLAIR Mismatch in H3K27M Mutant Glioma, William L. Valentino, Darren Okada, and Shiv Bhanu
A Curious Case of T2-FLAIR Mismatch in H3K27M Mutant Glioma, William L. Valentino, Darren Okada, and Shiv Bhanu
Esophageal Food Impaction., William L. Valentino and Soheil Sharifi-Amina
A Case Report of a Multi-Arterial Dural Arteriovenous Fistula., William L. Valentino, Charles Stout, and Duy Bui
Submissions from 2021
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
Barbiturates Versus Benzodiazepine for the Treatment of Severe Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Trials, Blerina Asllanaj, Eric Chang, Maha Hassan, and Yi McWhorter
Triple threat: Bilateral Renal Artery Thrombosis and Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia in a Patient with COVID-19, A Case Report, Elizabeth Benge and Yi McWhorter
Kratom-Induced Liver Injury: A Case Series and Clinical Implications., Mahesh Botejue, Gurjot Walia, Omar Shahin, Jyotsna Sharma, and Rasiq Zackria
Thyroid Abscess Initially Presenting as Destructive Thyroiditis With Subsequent Hypothyroidism, Jeffrey Caseja, Richard Wang, and Samer Nakhle
Brucellosis Presenting with Febrile Pancytopenia: An Atypical Presentation of a Common Disease and Review of Brucellosis, Carina Chang, Bryce D. Beutler, Mark B. Ulanja, Chukwudum Uche, and Milan Zdrnja
Who is at Risk for Cardiomyopathy in COVID-19, Diana Daftari, Javad Savoj, George Skaf, Samantha Gelman, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, Hyunju Heineke, and Mimi S. Biswas
Inpatient Hypoglycemia in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease, Justin Do, Hoda Mojazi-Amiri, Hyunju Heineke, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, Chelsea McQueen, Bahman Moghadam, and Scott Kubomoto
A Case of Recurrent Paralysis and Low Potassium: Is It the Thyroid?, Justin Do and Hoveda Mufti
A Psychonaut's Experience of Intoxication with Multiple Classes of Drugs Including Novel Psychoactive Substance 2-fluorodeschloroketamine: Case Report and Urinary Analysis., Kristina Domanski, Steven W Fleming, Hayden Maag, Emily Bouso Raley, Joshua DeBord, Brooks Wright, and Roya Mahana
Quadrilateral Space Region Inflammation and Other Incidental Findings on Shoulder MRI Following Recent COVID-19 Vaccination: Three Case Reports, Matthew T Eisenberg, Christopher Tingey, Oliver Fulton, Josh Owen, and Travis Snyder
A Spontaneous Compartment Syndrome Associated with a Supratherapeutic INR: A Case Report, Michael Hansen, Erik Korsgaard, Cole Kretchmar, and Se Won Lee
Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor (PanNET) Presenting with a Concomitant Ampulla of Vater Abnormality on Endoscopy, Ashan T. Hatharasinghe
Subacute Idiopathic Pericarditis with a Large Pericardial Effusion in a Young Adult Seven Months Post COVID-19 (SARS-Cov-2) Infection, Ashan T. Hatharasinghe and Andrey Manov
Cirrhosis is Associated with Significantly Worsened Clinical Outcomes of COVID-19 Infection in a Retrospective Analysis of 23,474 Patients Across 143 Hospitals, Andrew Hwang, Rasiq Zackria, Eric Choi, Hyunju Heineke, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, and Scott Kubomoto
Hematuria in Pregnancy Due to Renal Arteriovenous Malformation: A Case Report, Ashie Kapoor, Leo Yamaguchi, Sherwin Azad, and Yi McWhorter
COVID-19 Hospitalization Rate in Children Across a Private Hospital Network in the United States: COVID-19 Hospitalization Rate in Children, Tommy Y. Kim, Esther C. Kim, Adrian Z. Agudelo, and Lucas Friedman
The Effect on Length of Stay After Implementation of Discharging Low Acuity Patients From Triage., Tommy Y. Kim, Connor Ohmart, Zara Khan, Michael Lance, and Steven Kim
Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound to Expedite Diagnosis of Necrotizing Fasciitis: A Case Report, Romero Kupai, Ashkan Morim, Lucas Friedman, and Eva Tovar Hirashima
COVID-19 Related Critical Illness Neuromyopathy: An Increasingly Common Rehabilitation Challenge, Stefanie Lai, Se Won Lee, and Mark Steinhauer
The P2Network—Advancing Pediatric Emergency Care With Point-of-Care Ultrasound, Samuel Lam, Ron Berant, Todd P. Chang, Lucas Friedman, Delia L. Gold, Aaron E. Kornblith, Margaret Lin-Martore, Kathryn H. Pade, Melissa L. Skaugset, Amanda Toney, and Helena Wang-Flores
Autobiographical Case Report of Experiences With Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma, Cherry Liu and Nutan Winston
Hemithorax Westermark Sign Secondary to Complete Pulmonary Artery Occlusion from Pulmonary Embolus, Michael Louthan and Daniel Ng
Right Ventricular Dysfunction/Enlargement as a Prognostic Marker for Mortality in Patients with COVID-19 Infection, Muhammad Madkour, Karim El-Sherief, Patrick Hu, and Javad Savoj
Multi-Vessel Coronary Artery Ectasia., Muhammad Madkour and Patrick Hu
Extensive Coronary Thrombosis as a Sequelae of COVID-19 Presenting as a STEMI., Muhammad Madkour, Javad Savoj, Syed Iftikhar, and Alain Waked
Case report: Challenges in Making the Diagnosis of Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Yi McWhorter
Non-Aspirin NSAIDs Use is Associated with Lowering of Liver Fibrosis Scores in Patients with Fatty Liver Disease, Ikechukwu R. Ogbu, Hossein Akhondi, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, Andrey Manov, and Vignan Manne
Blunt Trauma Resulting in Testicular Evisceration: A Case Report, Roderick Olivas, Syed Uddin, Bhani Kondal, and Avinash Chenam
American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Verification Level II Vs Level I Outcomes: Similar but Without all the Hype., David Plurad, Bhani Chawla-Kondal, Nicholas Sheets, and Ahmed Mahmoud
A Re-Evaluation of the Effect of Trauma Center Verification Level on the Early Risk of Death in Hemodynamically Unstable Patients, David Plurad, Glenn Geesman, Nicholas Sheets, Bhani K. Chawla-Kondal, and Ahmed Mahmoud
The Effect of Trauma Center Verification Level on Traumatic Brain Injury Outcome After Implementation of the Orange Book, David S. Plurad, Glenn Geesman, Ahmed Mahmoud, Nicholas Sheets, Bhani K. Chawla-Kondal, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, and Samer Ghostine
A Contemporary Analysis of the Effect of Trauma Center Verification Level on Mortality in Severe Injury., David S. Plurad, Glenn Geesman, Nicholas Sheets, Bhani K. Chawla-Kondal, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, and Ahmed Mahmoud
Pressure Injury as Insidious Comorbidity in Ventilator-Dependent Respiratory Failure (VDRF) Secondary to COVID-19: A Case Report, Carlos Rodriguez, Karyn R. Doddy, and Napatkamon Ayutyanont
CODE BLUE: An Intern's Reflections from Nights in the COVID-19 ICU, Benjamen Schoenberg
A Rare Case of Intraparenchymal Cerebrospinal Fluid Cyst Associated With Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt in an Adult Patient, Pinak A. Shah, Kartika Shetty, Maycky Tang, Elnaz Saberi, and Nazanin Sheikhan
Common Iliac Vein Injury in Blunt Abdominal Trauma Without Pelvic Fractures, Nicholas Sheets, Roderick Olivas, and David S Plurad
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Trauma Encounters, Nicholas W. Sheets, Tosin Fawibe, Ahmed Mahmoud, Bhani K. Kondal, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, and David Plurad
Utility of Endobronchial Valves in a Patient with Bronchopleural Fistula in the Setting of COVID-19 Infection: A Case Report and Brief Review, Nazanin Sheikhan, Elizabeth Benge, Amanpreet Kaur, Jerome Hruska, Yi McWhorter, and Arnold Chung
Direct Oral Anticoagulant Use in Preventing Ischemic Stroke in Patients With Left Ventricular Thrombus, George Skaf, Diana Daftari, Samantha Gelman, Javad Savoj, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, and Mimi S. Biswas
Challenges of Rehabilitation in a Post COVID-19 Patient Outside of the Acute Care Setting: A Case Report, Thanapath D. Thantacheva, Dennis Nguyen, Jordan Petersen, Farhang Farzin, and SeWon Lee
Deeper than the Pandemic: A Retrospective Study Evaluating Outcomes and Mortality Rates on Hospitalized SARS-CoV-2 Negative Patients Presenting with Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction, Manvir Wadhwa, Harjeet P. Singh, Scott Kubomoto, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, Hyunju S. Heineke, and Mimi S. Biswas
Inflammatory Bowel Disease is Associated with Significantly Worsened Clinical Outcomes of COVID-19 Infection in a Retrospective Analysis of 78,756 Patients Across 143 Hospitals, Rasiq Zackria, Andrew Hwang, Scott Kubomoto, Hyunju Heineke, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, and Eric Choi
Acute Bilateral Blindness in the Setting of Sudden Onset of Bilateral Proptosis and Ophthalmoplegia: A Case Report With Literature Review, Sara Zarei, Phuong Vo, Christian Sam, Robert W. Crow, Charles Stout, and Lama Al-Khoury
Submissions from 2020
Always Remember to Floss... or Else, Arunmozhi (Sankavi) Aravagiri MD, Muhammad Zain MD, and Rajesh Gulati MD
Ethacrynic Acid, Chade Aribo and Daniel Ng
Trick or Treat? Licorice-Induced Hypokalemia: A Case Report, Elizabeth Jane Benge MD, Pinak A. Shah, Leo Yamaguchi MD, and Vanessa Elaine Josef MD
Case Report: Talar Neck Fracture, Wilson Frasca MD and Nhan Do MD