Submissions from 2021
The Hurricane Lung: A Case of Hydrocarbon Pneumonitis With Abscess Formation Following Fuel Siphoning, Renuka Reddy, Jessica Baek, Hanna R. Perone, Kai Chen, and Daniel Lichtstein
Memantine Usage for Management of Korsakoff Syndrome in the Setting of Chronic Alcohol Use and Unspecified Eating Disorder, Varun Reddy, Andrea Hernandez, Leah Grossman, Debra Angelo, and Johnathan Frunzi
Utilizing the Charleston Comorbidity Index as an Independent Predictor for Outcomes in SARS-Cov-2 Positive Patient, Irene Riestra Guiance, Steven Char, Ernesto Robalino Gonzaga, Isabel Riestra, and Minh Q. Ho
Gastrointestinal Symptoms and Association with Respiratory Symptoms in Patients Diagnosed with SARS-CoV2 (COVID-19), Ernesto Robalino Gonzaga, Irene Riestra Guiance, Richard Henriquez, Mahmoud Ibrahim, YuYa Nway, and Minh Ho
The Role of the Liver in Iron Homeostasis and What Goes Wrong?, Gonzaga Ernesto Robalino, Irene Riestra Guiance, Richard Henriquez, Gerri Mortimore, and Jan Freeman
Serotonin Toxicity Precipitated by Tramadol in the Setting of Polypharmacy: A Case of Serotonin Syndrome, Ariel Ruiz de Villa, Tyler Jones, Amina Lleshi, Monica Macahuachi, Katie Lamar, and Yvette Bazikian
COVID-19 and the CHA 2 DS 2-VASc Score: Is It Time to Refine?, Josh Salabei
Physicians at the Crossroad of Prognosis and Faith: Practical Help Communicating with Patients and Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Joshua Salabei, Troy Fishman, Steven J. Schwartz, Peter Okonoboh, and Uma Iyer
Marked Elevation of Carcinoembryonic Antigen Without an Identified Primary Gastrointestinal Tumor, Joshua K. Salabei, Dhaval Upadhyay, Asad Haider, Anthony Nanajian, Leora Frimer, Kipson Richard Charles, Zeeshan H. Ismail, Selina Imboywa, Awaad Khan, Nundia Louis, and Uma G. Iyer
COVID-19-Induced Cardiomyopathy, Emanual Santiago-Santanta, Zekarias T. Asnake, and George H. Cockey
A Retrospective Review of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleed Outcomes During Hospital Admission While on Oral Anticoagulation, Nicolina Scibelli, Andrew Mangano, Kathleen Raynor, Sarah Wilson, and Pratishtha Singh
Intestinal Dysbiosis Disguised as a Rectal Fistula Treated With Autologous Fecal Microbiota Transplantation, Nicolina Scibelli, Pratishtha Singh, and Kathleen Raynor
Prevalence of, Qualities, and Barriers Associated with Mentoring Relationships from Medical Students' Perspective: A Multi-Institutional Cross-Sectional Study., Andrew Sephien, Leigh Hatch, Jordan Karsch, Karim Hanna, Ambuj Kumar, and Danielle Gulick
Wernicke Encephalopathy in an Elderly Patient Due to Chronic Malnutrition From an Atypical Diet, Farhan A. Shah, Shaidy Moronta, Michalla Braford, Priscilla Y. Fujikawa, and Gary A. Stocker
Bouveret Syndrome: A Rare Form of Gallstone Ileus, Farhan Shah MD, Sean Winkle, Tyler Truitt, GIlad Guez, and Kevin Draper
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
Sexism in Medicine: Alive and Well or a Dying Breed?, Diane Shannon, Nadia Obaed, Dieula John, Elena Cervantes, and Miriam Zylberglait Lisigurski
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
Delaying the Development of Dementia with Physical and Cognitive Exercise, Michael Simpson DO
Newly Acquired Factor VIII Deficiency in a Male Ex-Smoker: A Case Report, Pratishtha Singh, Brian Gorman, Nardine Abdelsayed, and Mohamed Faris
Rapid Severe Sepsis from Pseudomonas fluorescens/putida Bacteremia due to Skin and Soft Tissue Infection - A Case Report, Pratishtha Singh, Andreas Montano, and Adam Bostick
A Retrospective Review of Outcomes in Intensive Care Unit Patients Infected With SARS-Cov2 in Correlation to Admission Acute Physiologic Assessment and Chronic Health Evaluation II Scores., Pratishtha Singh, Kayle M. Warren, Hannah Adler, Andrew Mangano, Jilian Sansbury, and Richard Duff
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
Epidermolysis Bullosa Acquisita Presenting with Usual Interstitial Pneumonia and Pneumomediastinum, Karan Soni, Kay Khine, and Natajaran Rajagopalan
Systemic Inflammation-Related Bradycardia in COVID-19, Ashwin Srinivasan, Tusharkumar Pansuriya, Branden Wilson, Siva Sarva, Turuvekere Jayaram, Salman Alim, Ramesh Kesavan, and Syed Raza
Ceftaroline-Associated Encephalopathy: A Rare Adverse Effect, Aswin Srinivasan, Blake Bennie, Krina Viroliya, Ramesh Kesavan, and Siva Sarva
Intracerebral Hemorrhage and Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome in a Patient With COVID-19, Aswin Srinivasan, Branden Wilson, Matthew Bear, Ammar Hasan, Obadah Ezzeldin, Salman Alim, Samer Elfallal, Xiang Fang, and Mohamad Ezzeldin
Pneumomediastinum in COVID-19: Interplay Between Infection, Inflammation and Ventilation - a Case Series, Aswin Srinivasan, Branden Wilson, PK Krishnamani, M Bear, TH Jayaram, R Kesavan, S Sarva, PR Patel, and S Alim
Diabetic Ketoacidosis and Acute Pancreatitis in Covid-19 Setting, Aswin Srinivasan, Branden Wilson, Tusharkumar Pansuriya, Syed Talha Qasmi, and Ramesh Kesavan
COVID-19-Induced Colitis: A Novel Relationship During Troubling Times., Peter Stawinski, Karolina Dziadkowiec, and Akiva Marcus
A Case of Immune Thrombocytopenia After COVID-19 Infection, Gauthier L. Stepman, Ivy Daley, Duncan Bralts, Jigneshkumar B. Patel, and Johnathan Frunzi
Ventricular Standstill in a Patient with Infective Endocarditis, Gauthier L. Stepman, Jinal K. Patel, Shiwani Kamath, Francisco Abreu Brea, and Rene Kunhardt
Hepatic Abscess as Early Presentation of Perforated Diverticulitis, Gauthier Stepman, Jinal K. Patel, John T. Young, and Johnathan Frunzi
A Rare Presentation of Asymptomatic Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum., Thomas Y. Sun and Allison Ferrara
Impact of Intravenous Antihypertensives on Outcomes Among Hospitalized Patients, Kelsi Thompson, Julien A. Exposito, Oliver Fowler, Rahul Mhaskar, Liwei Chen, and Jose Nicolas Codolosa
A Case of Euglycemic Diabetic Ketoacidosis Following Canagliflozin Therapy, Kubra Tuna, Randa Abdelmasih, Ramy Abdelmaseih, Mrhaf Alsamman, and Joseph Robbins
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
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
Guillain-Barré Syndrome in a Patient with Sickle Cell Anemia, Kunjan Udani, Pooja Patel, Dveet Patel, Hajra Awwab, and Nino Balanchivadze
Use of Anti-coagulants in Cancer Patients with Superficial Thrombophlebitis to Prevent Pulmonary Embolism, Pratikkumar Vekaria, Mansi Satasia, Tejas Raiyani, Rekha Rao, Chandrika Raiyani, and Kevin D. Phillips
Group B Streptococcus Meningitis Associated with Acute Otitis Media in an Adult Patient, Kenneth A. Villareal, Amelia Goslin, and Himal Bajracharya
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
A Retrospective Analysis Comparing Post-operative Bleeding with Various Doses of Aspirin after Lower Extremity Joint Arthroplasty or Revision., Paula J Watts, Mickey Kopstein, Weston Harkness, Brendon T. Cornett, Oliwier Dziadkowiec, Patrick Jenkins, Elizabeth Hicks, Shakib Hassan, and Dmitriy Scherbak
Rapidly Progressing Moyamoya Syndrome Secondary to Meningovascular Neurosyphilis and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Branden Wilson, Matthew Bear, Aswin Srinivasan, Khulood Rizvi, Samer Elfallal, and Mohamad Ezzeldin
Respiratory Failure Secondary to Guillain-Barre Syndrome in COVID-19 Infection, Branden Wilson, Aswin Srinivasan, Junaid Alam, Haris Ahmed, Tusharkumar Pansuriya, Uzma Ali, Ramesh Babu Kesavan, and Sivatej Sarva
A Case of Bilateral Thalamic Infarcts Involving the Artery of Percheron in the Setting of COVID-19, Branden Wilson, Aswin Srinivasan, Tusharkumar Pansuriya, Salman Alim, and Uzma Ali
Overlap of Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis and IgA Nephropathy: A Case Report, Bassem Zeidan Jr, Andrea Hernandez, and Parth Desai
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Secondary to Mycoplasma pneumoniae Infection: A Case Report., Bassem S. Zeidan Jr, Jinal K. Patel, Arielle C. Kirk, Arnoldo Gonzalez, and Imran Khan
Physician Suicide: Where are the Leaders?, Miriam Zylberglait Lisigurski
Take Back the Power and Joy of Being a Doctor, Miriam Zylberglait Lisigurski and Yudith Furman
Submissions from 2020
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES); Reversible or Irreversible?, Ramy Abdelmaseih, Randa Abdelmasih MD, Jay D. Patel DO, S. Mustajab Hasan MD, and Radhames Ramos De Oleo MD
The Effect of Hydroxychloroquine on In-Hospital Mortality in COVID-19, Samar Aboulenain, Nakeya Dewaswala, Fergie Ramos, Pedro Torres, Ahmed Abdallah, Mohamed Abdul Qader, Baher Al-Abbasi, Charles R. Bornmann, Karolina N. Dziadkowiec, Kai Chen, Jesus E. Pino, Robert Chait, and Kleper de Almeida
Cross-Sectional Analysis of Online Patient Reviews of Fertility Care Providers, Ricci Allen, Shruti Agarwal DO, and Mark P. Trolice MD
Always Remember to Floss... or Else, Arunmozhi (Sankavi) Aravagiri MD, Muhammad Zain MD, and Rajesh Gulati MD
Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism in a Patient with Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome Despite Adequate Anticoagulation with Warfarin, Zekarias T. Asnake, Troy J. Fishman, Liang Sun, and Joshua K. Salabei
Isolated Unilateral Oculomotor Nerve Paresis: An Uncommon Presentation of Midbrain Stroke, Zekarias T. Asnake MD, Jawad Noor MD, Manjot S. Malhi MD, and George Cockey MD
Visual Hallucinations in a Patient with Myxedema Coma, Crystal del Mar Ayala Castillo, Adrian Lugo, Narrani Kanapathippillai, Aneeta J. Joseph, Guruswamy Ramamurthy, and Marwa Hegagi
Osteopoikilosis: Rare case with incidental radiographic findings, Azin Azarfar, Hiffsa Taj, and Michael Seifert
Liver Imaging, Shahrzad Azizaddini and Nisha Mani
Physician perceptions about goals of care of hospitalized patients with malignancies, Nino Balanchivadze, Alexander A. Slota, Andrew Mangano DO, Adam Kudirka, and Yaser Alkhatib
Acute Ischemic Stroke as the Presenting Feature of COVID-19 in the Young and Pregnant, Nermila A. Ballmick, Jiri F. Kubac, and Hossein Akhondi
Methamphetamine Associated Cardiovascular Complications, Andrew Barnes MD, Alina Babar, Rony Shah, Samantha Williams, Olu Oyesanmi, and Jeffery Jordan MD
Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis: An Incidental Diagnosis!, Jennifer Batch Joudi MD, Muhammad Jahngir, and Ismael Rodriguez MD
Fulminant Myonecrosis From a Minor Puncture Wound Leading to Hip Disarticulation: A Rare Case of Clostridium septicum Gas Gangrene, Saptarshi Biswas and Emma Morel MS3
Bradycardia in the Setting of Gastric Sarcoidosis, Kameron Black MPH, Michelle Levine DO, Rage Geringer MD, Gregory Hicks MD, and Oliwier Dziadkowiec
A Large Epiglottic Cyst Complicated by Acute Airway Obstruction in an Adult Patient with History of Electronic Cigarette Use: A Case Report, Anamarys Blanco MD and Justin Reed
Internal Medicine Residents and the Practice of Defensive Medicine: A Pilot Study Across Three Internal Medicine Residency Programs, Saif Borgan, Laniel Romeus, Saleh Rahman, and Abdo Asmar
Budd-Chiari Syndrome from a Tunneled-Dialysis Catheter?, Ifrah Butt MD, Kairavee D. Dave MD, Lucas Rindy DO, Arash Zarrin DO, Livasky Concepcion MD, Daniel Heller MD, Franklin Kasmin MD, Steven Kaplan MD, and John Rivas MD
Alosetron, Ifrah Butt and Franklin Kasmin
Pituitary Cancer, Wajeeha Saeed Butt and Vijay N. Srinivasan
Inebriated Liver Causing Mesangial Turmoil, Luis Caraballo, Adalberto Gonzalez, Joel Brooks Tamayo, Evelyn Bryon, Jose Pantaleon, and Jose Gascon
Periodic Paralysis Syndromes: A T3 Thyrotoxicosis Etiology Presentation and Review of Literature, Alex Chao and Hossein Akhondi
An Unusual Case of Severe Metabolic Acidosis in MICU: SGLT2 Inhibitor-Associated Diabetic Ketoacidosis, Hongchuan H. Coville MD, Andrea Ramirez, and Christopher Bray
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
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Developing After a Coral Snake Bite: A Case Report, Elis Cruz Salcedo, Anamarys Blanco, and Justin Reed
The Role of Nutrition in Promoting Gut Health and Treating Chronic Illness Through the Attenuation of Inflammation, Allison Dalton
A Decerebrating Female: A Rare Presentation of Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis Due to Measles, Natasha Del Rio, Yordan Orive, Andres Sobrado, Ruben Cabrera, Ilde Manuel Lee, Troy Hoang, Sherard LaCaille, Ricardo Garcia-Rivera, and Robert Hernandez
Metastatic Lung Cancer to the Distal Finger Presenting as Osteomyelitis, Liza G. Diramerian, Edward Griffin MD, Ken Pendergrast, Edward Arsura, and Marigny Roberts
Metastatic Small-Cell Lung Cancer Presenting as Primary Adrenal Insufficiency, Shawn B. Esperti, Austen Stoelting, Nicolina Scibelli, David Moccia, Dveet Patel, Andrew Mangano, and Michael Haughton
Metastatic Small Cell Lung Cancer Presenting as Primary Adrenal Insufficiency, Shawn Esperti, Nicolina Scibelli, and David Moccia
A Rare Case of an Immunocompetent Male With Zoster Meningitis, Mohammad Faluk MD, Shraddhadevi Makadia MD, Ramy Abdelmaseih, S. Mustajab Hasan MD, and Khalid Abusaada MD
Rare Etiology of Renal Failure in a 25-Year-Old Caucasian Man: Fabry Disease With a Novel Mutation of GLA Gene, Salem Gaballa, Avan Aljaf, Jane Lindsay, Kashyap Patel, and Kyaw M. Hlaing
Choked Vein: Unusual Etiology of Extensive Deep Vein Thrombosis., Salem Gaballa, Kyaw M Hlaing, Nadine Bos, Gretchen Junko, and Abdullah Alcharif
Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis Presenting As Unexplained Chronic Abdominal Pain, Salem Gaballa, Kyaw M Hlaing, Nathan Mahler, Richard SR Hargrove, and Marigny Roberts
A Rare Case of Immune-Mediated Primary Adrenal Insufficiency With Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte Antigen-4 Inhibitor Ipilimumab in Metastatic Melanoma of Lung and Neck of Unknown Primary., Salem Gaballa, Kyaw M. Hlaing, Nathan Mahler, Safa Moursy, and AmeenJamal Ahmed
Carney Syndrome: A Family No Longer Cursed, Samantha Gelman MD, Andrew Benin, Rita Ishkhanian, Harjeet P. Singh, Jyotsna Sharma, and Rajesh Gulati MD
An Atypical Presentation of IVC Thrombosis, Samantha Gelman MD, Gregory Shimizu MD, and Rajesh Gulati MD
Assessment of Guideline Recommended Anti-Coagulation Rates for Atrial Fibrillation in an Outpatient Resident Clinic, Kanav Gupta MD, Emily Langnas DO, Zahra Khaled, Travis Tagami DO, and Alexandra Halalau MD
Salivary Gland Choristoma: A Rare Finding at the Gastroesophageal Junction., Rachel Hanke, Isin Y. Comba, Richard Henriquez, Maria W Crespo, and Lakhinder Bhatia
A Five Chambered Heart, George Hanna, Javad Savoj, Syed Iftikhar, Scott Kubomoto, and Patrick Hu
Seizure as an Initial Presentation for Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome in Undiagnosed Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Lupus Nephritis: A Case Report, Ethan Hartman, Kubra Tuna, Elio P. Monsour MD, Karthikram Komanduri, and Aneta Tarasiuk-Rusek
Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis, Ashan Hatharasinghe, Hossein Akhondi, and Don Pepito
Comparative Analysis of Three-Dimensional Volume Rendering and Maximum Intensity Projection for Preoperative Planning in Liver Cancer., Joyce L. Ho, Anuja Konda, Jawaria Rahman, Elan Harris, Ron Korn, Aqsa Sabir, Basil Bawany, Rajesh Gulati, Gordon J Harris, William D Boswell, Yuman Fong, and Syed Rahmanuddin
Adverse Childhood Experiences as Predictors of Perceived Health: Assessing the ACE Pyramid Model Using Multiple-Mediation, Phillip Hughes and Tabitha L. Ostrout
Severe Malaria due to Plasmodium Falciparum, Hamid Hussaini, Rage Geringer MD, Gregory Hicks MD, and Oliwier Dziadkowiec
Giant 75mm Intracranial Aneurysm Masquerading as Primary Malignancy, Andrew W. Hwang, Satvir Dhillon MD, and Remus Popa
Atypical Case of Burkitt’s Lymphoma/Leukemia Presenting with Cranial Nerve Palsy, Asma Jamil MD, Rajesh Gulati MD, Ayesha Jamil MD, and Abu Tahir M. Taha
Cervical Osteomyelitis: Unique Presentation And Fatal Outcome, Asma Jamil MD, Ayesha Jamil MD, Scott Kubomoto MD, and Liliana Crisan MD
A Case Regarding The Aftermath Of Acupuncture, Asma Jamil MD, Ibrahim Talab, Dietrich Schlueter MD, and Scott Kubomoto
Cosmetovigilance: A New Concept for Residency Curriculum, Jennifer Jones and Hale Z. Toklu