Submissions from 2022
Campylobacter jejuni: A Previously Unreported Cause of Toxic Shock Syndrome, Glenn E. Garcia Jr, Alexander Lake, Domenick Sorresso, and Joseph Staffetti
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
An Immunocompetent Male With Skin Lesions and a Brain Abscess., Jessica L. Glicksberg, Mercedes Malone, Joshua K. Salabei, and Robert Yancey
Metastasis of Melanoma to the Adrenal Glands: A Case Report and Literature Review, Asad A. Haider, Ariel Ruiz de Villa, Leora Frimer, and Yvette Bazikian
Zieve Syndrome in a Patient With Hepatitis C, Asad Haider, Josh Salabei, Mariam Hashmi, Zeeshan Ismail, Mingyue Zheng, and Uma Iyer
An Unusual Case of Isolated Pancreatitis Secondary to Blunt Abdominal Trauma., Haroutiun Hamzoian, Reuben Plasencia, Ndifreke Ekpa, Aswin Srinivasan, and Georg Elias
Utility of the HScore for Predicting COVID-19 Severity, William Hannah, Anthony Shadiack, Melissa Markofski, Kevin Dao, Eric Shaw, Craig Odum, Nayda Parisio Poldiak, Alexis Finer, and Mike Flynn
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
Bidirectional Ventricular Tachycardia in Acute Multivessel Myocardial Infarction, Frank C. Hsu, Justin Hao Goh, Andrew Jung, Milan Patel, Rami Akel, and Kenneth Yamamura
A Rare Case of Primary Rectal Squamous Cell Carcinoma and the Use of Cytokeratin Markers, Sindu Iska and Kapisthalam Kumar
Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum, Heidy Izquierdo, David Cotto Velez, Ilde Manuel Lee, and Sabrina Arshed
Massive Left Ventricular Thrombus Causing Bilateral Posterior Cerebral Artery Stroke: A Case Report and Review of Literature, Ashali Jain, Asad Haider, and Tyler Jones
Understanding the Presentation of Terminal Ileitis., Ashali Jain, Xiaolan Tang, Tyler Jones, and Sripal A. Padam
Is There a Bias Toward Unvaccinated COVID-19 Patients?, Abbas B. Jama, Anwar Khedr, Hisham Mushtaq, Nitesh K. Jain, Thoyaja Koritala, and Syed Anjum Khan
A Unique Case of a Right Atrial Myxoma Infected With Escherichia coli, Masi Javeed, Hanan Gruhonjic, Taylor Kirkman, Christos Pitarys, and Rami Akel
Massive Mural Thrombus Masquerading as Myxoma, Masi Javeed, Hanan Gruhonjic, Dveet Patel, John Forcella, and Rami Akel
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
Increasing Trends of Clostridium difficile Infection in Hospitalized Young Patients: A Study of the National Inpatient Sample From 2007 to 2017, Tsu Jung Yang, Achint Patel, Jassimran Singh, Vinay Jahagirdar, Dhanshree Solanki, Bharati Nikhare, Nishi Harwani, Ruchir Goswami, Hiteshkumar Devani, Prakash Maiyani, Dharmeshkumar V. Moradiya, Maheshkumar Desai, and Salman Muddassir
Adult-Onset Mitochondrial Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-Like Episodes (MELAS) in a Patient Without Significant Family History, Shiwani Kamath, Neel Duggal, Abid Ulhaque, Elliott Taylor, and Parth R. Desai
Doctors and Disability: Improving Inclusion in Medical Education, Mary Alice Keller
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 of Brugada Phenocopy in Adrenal Insufficiency-Related Pericarditis, Andrew Kim, Cristian Valdez, Tony Alarcon, Elizabeth Jane Benge, and Blerina Asllanaj
A Case of Primary Cutaneous Anaplastic Large T-cell Lymphoma Presenting as Large Abdominal Mass, Jennifer Klein
Relapse of Infiltrating Lobular Carcinoma with Distant Metastasis and Malignant Pleural Effusion after 7 Years of Disease-Free Survival: A Case Report, Jennifer Klein and Sunoj Abraham
A Case of Spontaneous Calf Hematoma with Simultaneous Deep Venous Thrombosis, Jennifer Klein and Sunil Gandhi
Rupture of Non-coronary Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm Contained by Ventricular Wall: A Case Report, Jennifer Klein and Suman Pasupuleti
Autoimmune Dysfunction Due to Severe Malaria, Aretha Kou, Jonathan Kirschen, Koravangala Sundaresh, and Parth Desai
Not All That Is Droopy Post Ad26.COV2.S (JNJ) Vaccine Is Bell’s Palsy: A Rare Case of Isolated Dorsal Pontine Stroke Causing Ipsilateral Complete Hemi-Facial Palsy, Maryam Kundi, Sebastian Montgomery, Shirley Mao, and Saleha Asghar
Cardiac Arrest Due to Massive Aspiration from a Broncho-esophageal Fistula: A Case Report, Gustavo Lagrotta, Mina Ayad, Ifrah Butt, and Mauricio Danckers
A Rare Case of a Right Atrial Paraganglioma in an Individual with the SHDB Mutation., Ian Lancaster, Carlos Nunez, Andrew Willinger, Christiano Caldeira, and Jeffrey Aufman
Myelodysplastic Syndrome in a Case of New-onset Pancytopenia, Ian Lancaster, Deep Patel, Vikas Sethi, Weston Connelly, and Joseph Namey Jr.
Abiotrophia defectiva Infective Endocarditis: A Rare and Dangerous Cause of Endocarditis, Ian Lancaster, Deep Patel, Cyrus Tamboli, Patricia Chun, Vikas Sethi, and Joseph Namey
Serotonin Syndrome Induced Tako-Tsubo Syndrome., Ian Lancaster, Jeffrey P. Steinhoff Sr., Jose Mosco-Guzman, and Deep Patel
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
Global Response, Ahmed Malik and Imaan Bashir
Diagnosis of the Primary Tumor Site in the Case of Liver Metastatic Carcinoma., Mercedes Malone, Christopher L. Bray, and Xiaolong Sean Liu
Evaluation of Recurrent Right-Sided Pleural Effusion: Hepatic Hydrothorax vs. Silicone Breast Implant Rupture, Mercedes Malone and David Ritchie
The Mystery of a Unilateral Headache Ultimately Diagnosed as Moyamoya Disease, Mercedes Malone and David Ritchie
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
Non-Caseating or Caseating Granulomas in Sarcoidosis?, Abhijit Marathe, Rey Marrero, J Parikh, and J Goyos
A Case of Juvenile Onset Hypophosphatasia Diagnosed In An Elderly Patient With Recurrent Fractures, Moises Matos, Ernesto Munoz Pena, and Sowmya Suryanarayanan
A Curious Case of Hemolytic Anemia with Pseudoreticulopenia, Scott Mayer, Nikhilesh Srinvasan, Jenny Nguyen, Ryan Spilman, and Dmitriy Scherbak
The Incidence of New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients Receiving High Dose Corticosteroids, Daniel L. McMahan, Aman Patel, Daniel Jipescu, and Senthil Thambidoral
Critical Care Practices in the World: Results of the Global Intensive Care Unit Need Assessment Survey 2020, Faisal A Nawaz, Neha Deo, Salim Surani, William Maynard, Martin L Gibbs, and Rahul Kashyap
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
A Case of Monoclonal Hammopathy of Undetermined Significance and Minimal Change Disease Complicated by Bilateral Pulmonary Emboli, Thanuja Neerukonda, Alexandra Witt, Arsen Tan, Bilal Farooqi, Yasna Chaudhary, Christina Kovacs, and Luis Silva
Presentations of Cutaneous Disease in Various Skin Pigmentations: Inverse Psoriasis, Daniel A. Nguyen, Henry Lim, Christopher M. Wong, Christian J. Scheufele, Ashleigh E. Hermann, Jean Elizze M. Charles, Michael Carletti, and Stephen E. Weis
A Case of Metastatic CNS Melanoma of Unknown Primary Presenting with Seizures., Viva Nguyen, Samar Aboulenain, Shawn Mohammed, and Sahyli Perez Parra
A Rare Case of Wernicke Encephalopathy in Stage IV Gastric Cancer, Arya Nikjoo, Hytham Rashid, Randy Chung, and Mir Ali Sadat
Fantastic Bugs and Where to Find Them (in the Brain and Bone): Atypical Abiotropha Defectiva Endocarditis Complicated by CVA and Spinal Osteomyelitis, Kevyn Niu, Maulik Shah, and Hilton Alemar-Hernandez
COVID-19 and Lung Cavitation: A Clue to Pathogenesis?, Tanner W. Norris, Blake M. Snyder, Patryk Purta, Ryan P. Spilman, and Vanessa J. Craig
Epidermoid Cyst in the Appendix: A Rare Entity, YuYa Nway, Raj Shah, Jignesh Parikh, and Ernesto S. Robalino Gonzaga
Voriconazole Induced Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma in an Immunocompetent Patient., Kevin Parza, Pratishtha Singh, Jessica Cvinar, Terence Zimmerman, Brian Watson, and Mohamed Faris
Aortic Valvulitis Post-Coronavirus Disease 2019, Aakash Patel, Blair Warren, Sagar Bhula, and Suman Pasupuleti
Dronedarone for Atrial Fibrillation Prophylaxis in Patients Undergoing Open Heart Surgical Interventions: A Case Series., Jay D. Patel, Mrhaf Alsamman, Dewansh Goel, Sai Guduru, and Rakesh Prashad
Hyperkinetic Choreiform Movements Secondary to Basal Ganglia Calcification and Underlying Developmental Venous Anomaly., Jay Patel, Muhammad J. Khalil, and Sidra Zafar
Jejunal Adenocarcinoma: A Rare Cause of Small Bowel Obstruction, Jay Patel, Jack Zhang, Chaudhry Saad Sohail, Matthew Montanarella, and Mujtaba Butt
A Case of Foix-Chavany-Marie Syndrome With Asynchronous Bilateral Opercular Infarcts and Chronic Bilateral Cerebellar Infarcts., Shreyan A Patel, Austin Forrester, Hyunwoong Kang, Eric Collin, and Kashyap Patel
Recurrent Right Ventricular Thrombus After Successful Resection of Right Ventricular Mass, Jordan Pierce, Pheba Cherian, Manjot Malhi, Crystal Gunn, and Peters Okonoboh
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
The Severity of the Co-infection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in COVID-19 Patients, Rohit Rangroo, Myles C. Young, Alexander Davis, Steven Pack, Shaival Thakore, Anna Schepcoff, and Oyesanmi Olyu
Venous Thromboembolism and Thymic Hyperplasia in the Setting of Silent Graves' Disease, Melanie Rayan, Tyler Jones, Ariel Ruiz de Villa, Mathew Calestino, and Yvette Bazikian
Herpes Simplex Encephalitis: Detection, Management, and Outcomes, Melanie N. Rayan, Raghav Bassi, Maher Khazem, David Pozo, Wael Abduljaber, and David B. Burtis
Case for Thought: Meckel's Diverticulum in the Adult Population, Melanie N. Rayan, Xiaolan Tang, Maher Khazem, William Clements, and Christopher L. Bray
Pulmonary Cement Emboli Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock Following Percutaneous Kyphoplasty, Renuka Reddy, Purva Sharma, Gustavo Avila, and Yash Jobanputra
A Case of Posttraumatic Pott’s Disease, Kyle Risos, Neel Duggal, Shiwani Kamath, Adam Wolberg, and Koravangala Sundaresh
MRSA in the Bursa: An Unusual Complication of MRSA Bacteremia Causing Bilateral Acromioclavicular Septic Arthritis, Victoria A. Rodriguez-Quick, Alexander Llop, Kevin Dimas, and Essam Girgawy
A Rare Case of Purpura Fulminans in the Setting of Klebsiella pneumoniae Bacteremia, Ariel Ruiz de Villa, Kipson Charles, and Peter Okonoboh
Approach to Cefepime-Induced Neurotoxicity in the Setting of Chronic Kidney Disease: A Case Report and Review of Literature, Ariel Ruiz de Villa, Kipson Richard Charles, Raghav Bassi, Sanjae Spencer, and Yvette Bazikian
Oculogyric Crisis in the Setting of Low Dose Risperidone and Benztropine Mesylate Use in a Patient With Schizophrenia: A Case Report and Review of Literature, Ariel Ruiz de Villa, Asad A. Haider, Leora Frimer, and Yvette Bazikian
A Rare Presentation of Undiagnosed Systemic Syphilis: A Case Report and Review of Literature, Ariel Ruiz de Villa, Asad Haider, Leora Frimer, Amina Lleshi, and Yvette Bazikian
An Unusual Case of Non-traumatic Chylothorax, Ariel Ruiz de Villa, Sanjae Spencer, Samantha Sircar, Raghav Bassi, Kipson Richard Charles, and Peters Okonoboh
Pneumopericardium, Epidural Pneumatosis, and Muscular Emphysema: Rare Complications of Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum Due to Refractory Hyperemesis Gravidarum., Charles R. Russell III, Garnett Benjamin, Joshua K. Salabei, Peters Okonoboh, and Liang Sun
A Rare Case of Extrapulmonary Sarcoidosis with Hypercalcemia as the Initial Presentation: A Diagnostic Conundrum, Zainab Saeed, Randa Abdelmasih, Bilal Ashraf, Christine Labib, and Frank Ramharrack
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
Ischemic Stroke With Hemorrhagic Conversion in a Case of Lyme Neuroborreliosis, Srinandan Sathi, Daniel Kim, Patrick Duplan, Paul Kim, and Carl Shenkamn
Efficacy of SGLT2 Inhibitors in Patients with Heart Failure: An Overview of Systematic Reviews, Andrew Sephien, Mike Ghobrial, Tea Reljic, Xavier Prida, Nishant Nerella, and Ambuj Kumar
Association of an Early Interest in Orthopedic Surgery with Match Rate into Orthopedic Surgery, Andrew Sephien, Ambuj Kumar, Kira Zwygart, Antoneyous R Mellek, Jeffrey Orr, Charles Nofsinger, and Danielle Gulick
Resident Duty Hours and Resident and Patient Outcomes: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Andrew Sephien, Tea Reljic, Jeffery Jordan, Xavier Prida, and Ambuj Kumar
Trends and Factors Associated With Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: A National Perspective., Harshil Shah, Ahmed Ali, Achint Patel, Vaidarshi Abbagoni, Ruchir Goswami, Ananth Kumar, Felipe Velasquez Botero, Elohor Otite, Hardik Tomar, Maheshkumar Desai, Prakash Maiyani, Hiteshkumar Devani, Faraz Siddiqui, and Salman Muddassir
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
Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease Complicated by Rheumatoid Arthritis, Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, and Hypothyroidism, Soroush Shahrokh, Ammar Hasan, Salman Raza Alim, Michelle Hebert, and Khulood Rizvi
Testicular Germ Cell Tumor Composed of Seminoma and Teratoma Metastasizing as Choriocarcinoma to the Lung Successfully Treated With Salvage Chemotherapy and Bone-Marrow Transplant: A Case Report, Soroush Shahrokh, Daniel Tran, Barbara Lines, and Murtaza N. Bhuriwala
Recurrent Pericardial Effusion following Diaphragmatic Hernia Repair, Rony Shah, Aakash Patel, James Craig, Hassan Baydoun, and Jeffery Jordan
New Onset Heart Failure From Viral Myocarditis and Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy: A Case Report, Bir Singh, Kelvin Noronha, Johnathan Frunzi, and Francisco Abreu Brea
Recurrent Left-Sided Pleural Effusions in a Patient With Chronic Lymphedema, Kristin N Slater, Sohaib Ahmed, Uzoamaka Obodo, Sam Son, and Fagunkumar Modi
A Rare Colon Polypectomy Diagnosis: Description of a Unique Investigational Journey and Literature Review of Burkitt Lymphoma, Gregory Thomas C. Stanger, Xiaolan Tang, Leora Frimer, Melanie Rayan, and Uma Iyer
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
A Rare Case of Pancreatic Schwannoma, Anastasia Tambovtseva, Bilal Ashraf, Saud E. Suleiman, Ziad Suleiman, and Ziad Alaidy
Investigation Into the Effect of COVID-19 Infection on Length of Hospital Stay and Mortality in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis, Kevin Thompson, Ami Shah, Adam Grunbaum, and Olu Oyesanmi
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