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
An Alternative Approach for Selective Lung Ventilation., Husam Alsamman, An Bui, Justin Howard, Muhammad Helwany, Ramneek Maan, and Kanaan Samer
Fluid Management in Septic Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension: Review of the Literature, Blerina Asllanaj, Elizabeth Benge, Jieun Bae, and Yi McWhorter
Managing Acute Intermediate Risk Pulmonary Thromboembolism in a Patient Who Developed Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia: Review of Current Guidelines and Literature, Blerina Asllanaj, Elizabeth Jane Benge, Sapna Bhatia, and Yi McWhorter
Acute Partial Papillary Muscle Rupture as a Rare Complication Following Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction, Blerina Asllanaj, Matthew Farr, and Yi McWhorter
Unintentional Drownings in Pediatric Populations: Injury Prevention in the Post-COVID-19 Era, Shamieh Banihani, Ian W. Waldrop, Manpreet K Singh, Olivia Vukcevich, Nicholas Sheets, and David Plurad
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
My Heart, Mina Bhatnagar
Overlapping Drug-Induced Vasculitis, ANCA-associated Vasculitis, and Lupus Nephritis Caused by Low-Dose Hydralazine, Mina Bhatnagar, A Agaronov, E Sarkisyan, I Sotoudeh Deilamy, Don Pepito, and H Akhondi
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
A Rare Case Report of Flecainide-Induced Left Bundle Branch Block (LBBB) and Transient Cardiomyopathy, Sukhjinder Chauhan, Desiree Morris, Mina Bhatnagar, Pinak A. Shah, and Dhiraj D. Narula
Benign Intrapulmonary Schwannoma With High Uptake on Fluorodeoxyglucose-18 (FDG-18 PET) Presenting as a Pancoast Tumor, Sukhjinder Chauhan, Faraz Rahman, Gundip S. Dhillon, Udanie Hewapathirana, Milliejoan Mongalo, and Arnold Chung
A Rare Case of Nodular Mantle Cell Lymphoma of the Gastrointestinal Tract Discovered During a Routine Colonoscopy With a Positive Response to R-CHOP Chemotherapy Regimen, Sukhjinder Chauhan, Jordan Valenta, Gundip S. Dhillon, Preston Phan, Yongwoon Huh, Andre E. Manov, and Ann Wierman
Gallstone Ileus Caused by Migration of Gallstone Through Cholecystoduodenal Fistula Resulting in Small Bowel Obstruction, Sukhjinder Chauhan, Rasiq Zackria, Trad George, Andrew Wojtanowski, and John Ryan
Sarcoid-Like Reactive Lymphadenopathy in Metastatic Synovial Sarcoma, Gundip S. Dhillon, Yema Jalal, and Vishisht Mehta
SARS-CoV-2 Infection Precipitates the Discovery of Underlying Liver Disease: A Case Report, Victoria Diaz, Elizabeth Jane Benge, Matthew Brockway, Weston Truman, and Birjees Ahmed
Hepatitis B Vaccination in Patients with Psoriasis, Wonder Edem, Shamieh Banihani, Amlyee Martin, and Jashin J Wu
Bilateral Knee Septic Arthritis after Prostatic Urethral Lift: A Case Report, Scott P. Goodsell, Alexandra Lewis, and Kristina Domanski
A Patient with Generalized Weakness - A Case Report, Darby Graham, Manparbodh Kaur, John Costumbrado, and Sassan Ghassemzadeh
Validation of a Clinical Prediction Rule for Distinguishing Bacterial and Aseptic Meningitis in Pediatric Patients, Amelia L. Gurley, Matt Fukuda, Ashwin Sharma, Ethan Lee, Erica Junqueira, Michael Kang, and Tommy Y. Kim
SARS-CoV-2: Current Tools to Fight COVID-19 ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction., Syed Ifthikar, Javad Savoj, Harjeet P. Singh, and Patrick Hu
Hard to See: Systemic Lupus Erythematous Presenting as Cranial Nerve Six Palsy: A Case Report, Yema Jalal, Elizabeth Benge, Gundip S. Dhillon, Sukhjinder Chauhan, Andrew Kim, Andy He, Aaron Sing, and Pinak A. Shah
Case Study of Biatrial Thrombus: Found Down With Atrial Fibrillation, Colin N. Jenkins, Nader W. Badri, and Barbara Blasko
Encephalopathy in a Young Female With COVID-19: A Case Report, Andrew Kim, Cristian Valdez, Weston Truman, George Trad, Cordelia Solomon, and Yi McWhorter
Correlation Between Serum and Arterial Blood Gas Bicarbonate in Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, Andrew Kim, Leo Yamaguchi, Shobhit Keswani, Vincent Yang, and Yi McWhorter
Dynamic Ultrasonography of Snapping Forearm: Proximal Intersection Syndrome, Se Won Lee, Jeffrey Farrington, and Timothy Tiu
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
Rare Sequela of Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection, Muhammad Madkour and Ashis Mukherjee
Type 2 Decompensated Diabetes Mellitus Weaned off Subcutaneous Insulin Therapy by Utilizing a Continuous Glucose Monitoring Device, Andrey Manov, Gundip S. Dhillon, Sukhjinder Chauhan, Blerina Asllanaj, and Erie S Uy
The Effectiveness of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Devices in Managing Uncontrolled Diabetes Mellitus: A Retrospective Study, Andrey E. Manov, Sukhjinder Chauhan, Gundip S. Dhillon, Athena Dhaliwal, Sabrina Antonio, A. Donepudi, Yema N. Jalal, Jonathan Nazha, Melissa Banal, and Joseph House
Unmasking Type 1 Diabetes in Adults: Insights From Two Cases Revealing Misdiagnosis As Type 2 Diabetes, With Emphasis on Autoimmunity and Continuous Glucose Monitoring, Andrey E. Manov, Sukhjinder Chauhan, Gundip S. Dhillon, and Ashrita Donepudi
A Man with Sore Throat: A Case Report, Nathan Mercado, Sawyer Schuljak, Daniel Ng, Curtis Knight, Allison Woodall, and John Costumbrado
Factor VII Deficiency and Second Trimester Abortion: A Case Report, Katie Nguyen, Tamara Lynne Aqui, and Honey Milestone
Impact of Inhaled Epoprostenol in Patients on COVID-19 Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), Stacey Nguyen, Stephen Chromi, Mark Decerbo, Surajit Dey, Joseph McCoy, and Jeffrey Murawsky
The Impact of Gender and Race When Using the GRACE ACS Score to Predict Mortality, Ikechukwu Ogbu, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, Sarah Wilson, and Hossein Akhondi
Intra-Abdominal Abscess with Candida in a Post-Operative Setting, Derek Oh, Kenneth Rodrigues, Blerina Asllanaj, Alexander Urzua, Andy He, and Rosaly Diaz
Children Ages One to Four are Disproportionally Affected by Chemical Burns in a Cross-sectional Analysis of NEISS 2012-2021, Aislyn Oulee, Ian W. Waldrop, Roy Mendoza, Chiemelie Onyekonwu, David Plurad, and Nicholas W. Sheets
Chromobacterium haemolyticum Infection from Hot Springs Near Yellowstone National Park: A Case Report, Kyle Patterson, Katie Suleta, Sean R. Shearen, and Ken Chapman
Incidental Skin Manifestation of Trisomy 12 Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Kenneth Rodrigues, Derek Oh, Blerina Asllanaj, and Ann Wierman
Traumatic Amputations Treated in US Emergency Departments: A Review of the NEISS Database., Brittany R. Sadoma, Nicholas W. Sheets, David S. Plurad, and Emily Dubina
Pediatric Trauma During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A 3-year Retrospective Analysis, Gabriel Scally, Nicholas W. Sheets, Emily Dubina, Bhani K. Chawla-Kondal, and David S. Plurad
Ventricular Tachycardia Induced by a Wandering Nephroureteral Stent, Cristian Valdez, Tony Alarcon, Andrew Kim, and Hatim Gemil
A Case of Gabapentin-Induced Angioedema in a 31-year-old Female, Cristian Valdez, Andrew Kim, and Tony Alarcon
Isolated Torsion of Fallopian Tube with Associated Torsed Paratubal Cystadenofibroma: A Case Report, Daryush Varedi, Vivek Bhatt, Mariam Asadian, Soheil Sharifi-Amina, Shiv Bhanu, Duy Bui, Tae Hun Kim, and Justin Wei
Enlarging Premaxillary Mass: A Unique Manifestation of Extranodal Diffuse B-cell Lymphoma, Daryush Varedi, Pavandeep Maan, Jacob J. Bruckner, Michael Carlson, Justin Wei, Shiv Bhanu, and Duy Bui
Atrial Fibrillation: Rate Versus Rhythm Control, Carlos E. Vargas, Mina Bhatnagar, Haris Ahmed, Michael G. Flynn, and Thomas Alexander
Who Left the Hospital Against Medical Advice During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic?, Bryan Werner and Se Won Lee
Gastric, Duodenal, and Small Bowel Emergencies, Brianna Williams, Teresa Huynh, and Ahmed Mahmoud
Submissions from 2022
CO2 Levels Behind and in Front of Different Protective Mask Types, Hossein Akhondi, Sassan Kaveh, Kimball Kaufman, Tina Danai, and Napatkamon Ayutyanont
Elongated Inferior Vena Cava and Intracardiac Mass: Thrombus In-Transit or Metastasis, Blerina Asllanaj, Elizabeth Benge, Ryan Hafen, and Yi McWhorter
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
Patient with hypogonadism and Infertility Successfully Treated with Clomiphene Citrate, Andrey Manov, Eric Yu, 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
Protective Equipment Preparedness and Accessibility: A Survey of Medical Trainees, Navin R. Prasad, Jason An, Hyunju Heineke, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, Deepinder Bal, and Rahul Kashyap
The Important Factors Applicants Consider When Choosing a Residency: A Survey Study, Amber Alexandria Quave, Hossein Akhondi, and Napatkamon Ayutyanont
Predictors of ICU Admission in Patients with Peripartum Cardiomyopathy, Omar Shahin, H Shahin, Hyunju Heineke, and Mimi S. Biswas
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