Submissions from 2024
Quiet, Thashali Anthony
An Acknowledgement to the HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine's Reviewers and Editors for the Second Half of 2023, Bruce Deighton, Hossein Akhondi, Barbara L. Gracious, and Graig Donini
Severe Electrolyte Abnormalities and Distal Renal Tubular Acidosis in the Setting of Apremilast Use for Psoriatic Arthritis: A Case Report., Brody M Fogleman, Emilie McKinnon, Schuyler Nebeker, and Kedareeshwar S Arukala
Primary Mucinous Carcinoma of the Thyroid: A Case Report, Literature Review, and Immunohistochemistry Summary, Martin T. Halicek, Caleb Scott, Terence Zimmermann, and Brian Watson
Grade IV Glioma Potentially Disguised As COVID-19 Encephalitis., Austin Patrick Eisenberg, Nicolina Scibelli, Hannah Fischer, and Victor Collier
Structured Textbook Review and Individualized Learning Plans Successfully Remediate Underperforming Residents and Improve General Surgery Program Performance on the ABSITE, Aaron Pinnola and Christoph Kaufmann
A Case of Type 1 Cryoglobulinemia With Lymphoplasmacytic Lymphoma and Dry Gangrene, Abhinav K. Rao, Fahim Syed, Diego E. Garrido, Charles S Holladay, and Julia Saylors
Posters or Presentations from 2023
Clinical Decision Making in a Challenging Case: A Case of Anomalous Origin of the Right Coronary Artery with Interarterial Course Presents with Sudden Cardiac Death, Israa Al-Gburi, Amid Bitar, and Reem Alqader
The Effect of Early Palliative Care Consultation for Patient with Traumatic Brain Injury on Procedure Utilization, Length of Stay and Discharge Location, Abdulelah Almutairi, Donald Courtney, and Heather Rhodes
Metformin-Induced Giant Cell Arteritis: An Uncommon Case of Drug-Induced Vasculitis, Christine Angeles and Wendy Lee
Under Pressure: A Case of Acute Compartment Syndrome/VITT after the Covid-19 Vaccine, Thashali Anthony and Brittany Lyons
Non-NEC Pneumatosis and Pneumoperitoneum, Arham Aslam and Alexander Soutter
Grade III Splenic Laceration After a Ground-Level Fall in a Pediatric Patient: The Need for Return-to-Play/Activities Protocols for Individuals With Splenic Injury or Splenomegaly, Andrew Baird, Christopher Pun, and Asfawossen Asfaw
Impact of Adherence to a Standardized Oxytocin Induction Protocol on Obstetric and Neonatal Outcomes, Arthur Baker III, James christmas, Rachel A. Sheehan, Sue M. Cadwell, Sarah A. Fraker, Alexis Finer, Mike Flynn, and Pranav C. Mehta
Complications of Colonscopies: Splenic Injury Following Routine Screening for Colorectal Cancer, Elisabeth Barrar and Ainsley Freshour
Diffuse Neurofibroma in a Micronesian Male, Christy T. Behnam, Angel Juarez, Brian Watson, and Mohamed Faris
COVID: The Sound of Silence, Saptarshi Biswas
A Case Report on Cervical Insufficiency and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Elizabeth Bogaty and Judy Bowers
Quality Improvement: Improving Discussion and Documentation of Advance Directives in an Outpatient Setting, Amanda Brenner, Elizabeth J. Bogaty, and Anjan Parghi
A Case of Aquagenic and Cholinergic Urticaria, Marilian A. Canals Rivera, Kyle Rauch, Amanda Brenner, and Victoria Charry
Perforated Sigmoid Diverticulitis Within a Strangulated Inguinal Hernia, Christen E. Chaconas, Patrick D Melmer, and Aaron D. Pinnola
Perforated Sigmoid Diverticulitis Within A Strangulated Inguinal Hernia, Christen E. Chaconas, Patrick D. Melmer, Aaron D. Pinnola, and Isabella C. Moncada
A National Survey of Job Satisfaction and Workload Among Emergency Medicine (EM) Residency Faculty, Jennifer Chapman, Martha Barrett, Meredith Thompson, Christine Stehman, Michael Hansen, and Martin Wegman
Acute Onset of Movement Disorders Accompanying Common Emergency Room Neurologic Disease Processes, Jennifer Chapman, Michael Horowitz, Ronnie L. Bond, Janae Fry, Christy Joesph, and Youssef M. Al-Saghir
Endobronchial Ultrasound Diagnosis of a Malignant Superior Vena Cava Tumor Thrombus Extending into The Right Atrium: An Unusual Cause of Recurrent Syncope., Larissa Check, Ariba Naz, and Richard Duff
Descriptive Assessment of the Pediatric Emergency Team System: The Memorial Health University Medical Center Experience, Ashley Cheek, Lauren Hebert, Sunil Keshwah, and Jessica Lee
Ode to My EMR, Kelly T. Clouse
Ode to my EMR, Kelly T. Clouse MD
Cardiovascular Collapse and NSTEMI Following Initiation of Vancomycin Infusion, Brandon Cunningham, Kamran Khattak, and Saptarshi Biswas
Resilience, Nicholas D'Angelo
Proton Pump Inhibitor Use and Adverse Effects in South Atlantic Hospitals, Nicholas D'Angelo, Ramyar Sigarchy, Anthony Esswein, and Sidra Asrar
Delayed Hypotension and Bradycardia in Guanfacine ER Overdose, Quang-Trung Dang, Alexandra Mathis, Barbara Gracious, and Alexander Bui
Opioid-Induced Intrathecal Catheter Tip Granuloma via Pain Pump in a Patient with Chronic Pain Syndrome: A Case Report, Katherine David, R Blake Kline, and Jon Halling
An Acknowledgement to the HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine's Reviewers and Editors for the First Half of 2023, Bruce Deighton, Hossein Akhondi, Barbara L. Gracious, David Scott Lind, and Graig Donini
Midgut Volvulus A Rare Cause of Acute Abdomen in the Adult Patient, Mason S. Deinema and Saptarshi Biswas
Stone-Containing Meckel’s Diverticulitis as a Mimic of Acute Appendicitis, Justin Denny and David Pardue
Predicting Early Versus Late In-Hospital Mortality in the Trauma Population, Jackson Dunitz, Heather Rhodes, and Antonio Pepe
Diagnostic Dilemma: Infective Endocarditis in the Setting of an Esophageal Abscess., Emad Elmusa, Ahmad Muneeb, Waleed Raza, Hassan Tahir Khokhar, and Nilmarie Guzman
Acute Liver Failure Secondary to Pyogenic Hepatic Abscess., Emad Elmusa, Muhammad Raza, Michael Orlando, Seth Boyd, and Robert Kulchinsky
Catastrophic Antiphospholipid Syndrome: A Rare Cause of Acute Heart Failure, Emad Elmusa, Waleed Raza, Ahmad Muneeb, Hovra Zahoor, and Naja Naddaf
Acute Thalamic Stroke in a COVID Positive Adult, a Case Report, Norberto Escobales, Daniel Kiehl, Michelle Militello, and Vorbes Aleger
Acute Thalamic Stroke in a COVID Positive Adult: A Case Report, Norberto Escobales, Daniel Kiehl, Michelle Militello, and Aleger Vorbes
Admission Rate of Patients with Most Common Psychiatric Disorders During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic, Sulaiman Farooqui, Koroush Mehrazar, Marshall Johnson, Nicholas D'Angelo, and Leslie Hart
Maternal Mirror Syndrome as a Consequence of Fetal Sacrococcygeal Teratoma: A Case Report and Literature Review, Ali Farris, Andrew Royek, and Kaitlyn Dorsey
On the Discontinuation of Enteral Feeding in Head and Neck Cancer: A Case Report, Kyle Fisk and Ana Sanchez
When We Pause: On the Discontinuation of Enteral Feeding in Head and Neck Cancer a case report, Kyle Fisk and Ana Sanchez
Intracervical Foley Balloon Use in Pre-labor Rupture of Membranes: Rates of Maternal and Neonatal Infections, Ashley Foreman, Stephanie Tootle, and Merritt McGowan
Illicit Drug Use Patterns in Myrtle Beach, S.C. from 2017-2022, Michelle Fowler, Mark Plexousakis, Meg Riley, Blaine Rourke, Erin Artigiani, Amy Billing, Margaret Hsu, Ebonie Massey, and Eric Wish
A Case of Embolic Stroke Due to Native Mitral Valve Pasteurella multocida Infective Endocarditis, Alexia Foy-Crowder, Omar Kandah, and Mohamed Faris
An Accidental Pox Party: A Preventable Case of Fatal Disseminated Varicella in an Elderly Immunocompromised Female, Chad Froes, Eric Fromke, Dominic Collins, and Thomas Bumbalo
Primary Left Thigh Melanoma Presenting as an Obstructive Hemorrhagic Melanoma of the Small Bowel, Lidice Galindo, Catherine Traylor, Larissa Check, and Mohamed Faris
Thoracic Radiculopathy Following Permanent Spinal Cord Stimulator Placement, Nicholas Gentry, Desiree Aird, and Farayi Mbuvah
Use of POCUS to Support Clinical Diagnosis of Fournier's Gangrene, Erica Gibbons, Johnatan Jhon, and Jennifer Purcell
Prevalence of Failed Back Surgery Syndrome Across Hospital Corporation of America Healthcare in the United States, Their Correlation With Mood Disorders and Other Lifestyle-Related Comorbidities, Keysha Gonzalez, Zainab Hanif, Maham Shahid, Nilmarie Guzman, and Natalie Hurlock
Case of Calcinosis Cutis Associated with Sjogren's Syndrome, Keysha N. Gonzalez, Karishma Ramsubeik, and Gurjit Kaeley
Prevalence of Failed Back Surgery Syndrome Across HCA Healthcare Hospitals in the US, their correlation with Mood Disorders and Other Lifestyle Related Comorbidities, Keysha Gonzalez-Ramos, Zainab Hanif, Maham Shahid, and Nilmarie Guzman
A Full-Circle Trip, Barbara L. Gracious
Cârța Monastery, Barbara L. Gracious
The Role of Preoperative Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography/Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography in the Setting of Mildly Elevated Liver Enzymes Prior to Cholecystectomy, Rachel Groening, Salah Abdel Jalil, Jeffery Durbin, Rahul Kashyap, and Aaron D. Pinnola
What is Chilaiditi Sign? A Case Report as Seen in a Patient With Acute Coronary Syndrome, Mina Guirguis, Jennifer Horawski, Sean Gibbs, and Andrew Baird
Chilaiditi Sign in a Patient With Acute Coronary Syndrome: A Case Report, Mina M. Guirguis, Jennifer L. Horawski, and Sean L. Gibbs
MVC Rollover with Visual Left Wrist Deformity, Nicholas Hale and Jonathan Leggett
A Perplexing Case of Bladder Mass Biopsy-Proven Neurosarcoidosis, Zainab Hanif, Keysha N. Gonzalez, Pouyan Razminia, Eboselum Aigbe, and Pegah Ghafourian
How Did That Get There? A Case Series of Adolescent Foreign Bodies, Justin Ian Hanson, Paul Bomar, Sarah Kleist, Denver Rogalla, Lori Crihfield, and Scott Gutovitz
A Pilot Study of a Low Cost Simulation to Teach and Assess Breast Cancer Communication and Procedural Skills, Kimberly Helseth, Alexandra Marcelli, Ena Novakovic, Natalie LaGuttuta, Rachel Attebury, Darwin Ang, Joseph Love, Alene Wright, and Scott Lind
Two PAES In A Pod, Jennifer Horawski, Mina Guirguis, Andrew Baird, and Thomas Chambers
The Importance of Recognizing the Many Facets of Crohn’s Disease, Alexander Howell, Rachel Murray, Ann Church, and Karthik Krishnamurthy
Visual Representation of Cultural and Collegial Collaboration, Afsah Ali Hussain
Traumatization, Underrepresentation, and Identity Crises, Afsah Hussain, Marshall Johnson, Andrew Gonedes, and Barbara Gracious
Glaucoma Associated with Sinusitis: A Case Report, Nawzad Jacksi, Jennifer Chapman, and Martin Wegman
Congenital Mesenteric Defect Results in Internal Hernia in an Adult with Obstructed Small Bowel, Tameem Jamal, Adina McNair, and Saptarshi Biswas
Interstitial Lung Disease Due to Underlying Sjogren's Syndrome, Ryan E. Johnson, Elizabeth Bogaty, Chamonix Kinimaka, and Marilian Canals-Rivera
Amiodarone-Induced Thyrotoxicosis Type 2 : Utilization of Color-flow Doppler Sonography for Diagnosis, Sam Joseph, Larissa Check, and Donald Eagerton
Hypertonic Saline Administration via Intraosseous Access During Symptomatic Hyponatremia, Angel Juarez, Mitsy Barr, and Thaddeus Golden
Hypertension-Induced Thrombotic Microangiopathy Leading to End-Stage Renal Disease., Angel Juarez, Lidice Galindo, and Maryam Gondal
THSD7A Associated Membranous Nephropathy Leading to Metastatic Neuroendocrine Carcinoma, Angel Juarez, Lidice Galindo, and Maryam Gondal
Thrombospondin Type 1 Domain-Containing 7A (THSD7A)-Associated Membranous Nephropathy Leading to Metastatic Neuroendocrine Carcinoma, Angel Juarez, Lidice Galindo, Aditya Ragunathan, and Maryam Gondal
Congenital Atrial Septal Defect Presenting With Tamponade Physiology and an Associated Viral Illness, Angel Juarez, Gabriela F. Jhon, Rami N. Khouzam, Randall Goodroe, Russell F. Stahl, and Mohamed Faris
The Importance of Excisional Biopsy in Nodular Lymphocyte-Predominant Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Angel Juarez, Kevin Parza, Lidice Galindo, and Mohamed Faris
Gender and Leadership: Continued Progress in Academic Dermatology, Preetha Kamath, Nallammai Muthiah, Anisha Venkatesh, and Melissa Pugliano-Mauro
Puzzling Painful Cutaneous Nodules: A Sign to Dig Deeper, Preetha Kamath, Angelia Stepien, Brandon Beal, Courtney Bernett, and Karthik Krishnamurthy
Clinical Characteristics of COVID-19 Waves in the Southeastern United States: A Retrospective Study, Omar Kandah, Robert Sherertz, Richard Duff, and Erica Junqueira
Hippocampal barques and their manifestation as 14&6 Hz positive spikes during sleep., Vasileios Kokkinos, Helweh T. Hussein, Danai Georgia Sakelliadou, R Mark Richardson, Anto Ι Bagić, and Alexandra Urban
Effect of High Sensitivity Troponin Assay on Hospital Resources and Emergency Department Discharges in Patients Presenting with Symptoms Concerning for Myocardial Infarction, Hans Koop, Keysha N. Gonzalez, Madalyn Nygren, Andrea Deneen, and Jennifer Chapman
Improving Comfort and Confidence with Advance Care Planning in Primary Care, Thomas Krajewski, Donald Courtney, and Tyler Kilgore
Prioritizing and Prescribing Exercise: Use of a Simple Tool to Encourage Clinical Conversations Around Exercise in Family Medicine Out-Patient Clinic, Michael Ladd, Parisa Biazar, Ting Han, Jennifer Horawski, Lisa Wright, and Anthony Shadiack
Care Alert Program in Chronic Recurrent ED Utilizing Patients: Expanded Study, Jonathan Leggett, Kaitlyn Phelps, Erica Gibbons, Jonathan Bryan, Brent Wright, Daniel Nunez, and Brian Griggs
QI project: Increasing Appropriate Use of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment as an Adjunctive Treatment for Patients with Musculoskeletal Pain in the Outpatient Setting, Zhe Liu, Aelius Khan, Derek Pride, Thomas Krajewski, and Anthony Shadiack
A Rare Case of Non-Traumatic Multi-Compartment Syndrome of the Gluteal Region and Lower Left Extremity, LaKeisha Majette, Taylor Locklear, and Saptarshi Biswas
Attitudes Towards HIV Testing in Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Women, Sashia Malone and Susan Greene
Pulsing Staples: A Case Report of Superficial Temporal Artery Pseudoaneurysm and Literature Review of the Same, Austin McCrea, Jonathan Hardin, Patrick Melmer, and Saptarshi Biswas
Increased Penetrating Trauma and Trauma Severity During the COVID-19 Lockdown, Adina M. McNair, Heather X. Rhodes, and Saptarshi Biswas
Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm, Jacquelyn Medina, Adam Chahine, Courtney Bernett, and Karthik Krishnamurthy
Critical Left Subclavian Artery Stenosis With Retrograde Vertebral Flow: A Case Report and Literature Review, Andreas Montano, Martin Halicek, Victor Collier, and Brooke Reese
A Walking Case of Extensive Klebsiella pneumoniae Mimicking Lung Cancer, Diem Phuc T. Nguyen, Rebecca L. Cooper, Maria Antonio-Miranda, and Patricia Gilford
Are We “Pushing” Our Patients Toward Addiction? A Preliminary Post-Cesarean Survey to Quantify Narcotic Requirements for Pain Control, Aliya Nurani, Mikalah Maury, Merritt McGowan, Stephanie Tootle, Anthony Royek, and Eric Shaw
Cranial Nerve Palsy After Vaginal Delivery with Epidural Anesthesia, a case report, Jennifer Olivarez, Caylyne Arnold, and Scott Gutovitz
Cranial Nerve Six Palsy After Vaginal Delivery with Epidural Anesthesia: A Case Report, Jennifer Olivarez, Scott Gutovitz, and Caylyne Arnold
In-Hospital Mortality After Massive Transfusion and Motorcycle Trauma may Predict Highest Injury Severity in a Rural Level I Trauma System, Robert Olson, Heather Rhodes, and Antonio Pepe
1.8% Balanced Sodium Bicarbonate/Sodium Chloride Compared to 3% Sodium Chloride for the Management of Cerebral Edema, Rebecca K. Ortega, Eric Shaw, Emily Bowers, and Alisha B. Terry