Submissions from 2020
Systemic Mastocytosis: A Rare Cause of Diarrhea, Leonard Hamera MD, Andrew Santos MD, Sean-Patrick A. Prince MD, Sreenkanth Chandrupatla, and Jeffrey Jordan MD
Allergic Reaction to Implanted Pacemaker Leads, Roshni Hira, Alina Babar, Sheldon Hoxie, Amar G. Patel, Jeffrey Jordan MD, and Suman Pasupuleti
Emergent Diagnosis of a Flail Mitral Leaflet With Bedside Echocardiography, Patrick Hsu, Caroline Shepherd, Keyon Shokraneh, Gabriel Cabrera, and Eric Kalivoda MD
Use of an Emergency Manual During an Intraoperative Pulmonary Arterial Rupture, Hypoxemia, and Bradycardia, Jeffrey Huang, Xiaofeng Huang, Yin Guan, Xiaobin Wang, and Shovna Mishra
Acral Lentiginous Melanoma: Incidence and Survival in the United States, 2006-2015, an Analysis of SEER Registry., Kai Huang, Ji Fan, and Subhasis Misra
Completion Lymph Node Dissection in Patients with Sentinel Lymph Node Positive Cutaneous Head and Neck Melanoma, Kai Huang, Subhasis Misra, Riccardo Lemini, Yong Chen, Leigh L. Speicher, Nancy L. Dawson, Leila M. Tolaymat, Sanjay P. Bagaria, and Emmanuel M. Gabriel
Comparative Analysis of Acral Melanoma in Chinese and Caucasian Patients, Kai Huang MD, Yu Xu, Emmanuel M. Gabriel, Subhasis Misra, Yong Chen, and Sanjay P. Bagaria MD
The Evil Twin: The Case of Heterotopic Pregnancy, Rashmi Jadhav, Vegas Brown, and Gabriel Cabrera
Idiopathic Chylopericardium: A Rare Entity, Seema Jaga, Joseph Namey, Christiano Caldeira, and Salah Al-Andary
Malignant Duodenal Obstruction Caused by Urothelial Carcinoma, Dylan Johnson, Ankita Mishra, Kai Huang, Chukwuyem Obia, and Subhasis Misra
AngioVac Removal of an Isolated Infected Pulmonary Valve Papillary Fibroelastoma, Jessica Joseph-Alexis, Aaron Jaffe MD, Jomel Jacinto, and Rami Akel
Teriparatide and its Bone Healing Power, Aneeta J. Joseph, Jesus L. Penabad, and Antonio Pinero-Pilona
Novel Infection Status Post Electrocution Requiring a 4th Ray Amputation, William R. Judson, John D. Murphy, Phillip H. Sussman, and John N. Harker
Right Heart Thrombus in Transit Diagnosed With Focused Cardiac Ultrasound in the Emergency Department, Eric Kalivoda MD, Kevin Rivera-Rodriguez MD, and Gabriel Cabrera MD
Critical Limb Ischemia Leading to Bilateral Above-Knee Amputations in a Young Patient with a Mechanical Heart Valve, Shiwani Kamath, Abid Ulhaque, Rias Ali, and Johnathan Frunzi
Fracture Blisters, Jessica Khabra, Jinal K. Patel, Gauthier L. Stepman, Kulveer Dabb, Kenny Hernandez, Debra Angelo, and Johnathan Frunzi
Does the Removal of Contact Precautions for MRSA and VRE Infected Patients Change Health Care-Associated Infection Rate?: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis., Robert Kleyman, Sophia Cupril-Nilson, Kent Robinson, Shaival Thakore, Furqan Haq, Liwei Chen, Olu Oyesanmi, Kimberly D. Browning, Joseph Pino, and Rahul Mhaskar
Dog Scratch Fever Secondary to Capnocytophaga Species in a Patient Without Risk Factors, Linda C. Klumpp MD, Gustine Liu-Young MD, James Craig MD, Leonard Hamera MD, Jeffrey Jordan MD, Srinivas Dantuluri DO, and Sunoj Abraham MD
Invasive Lobular Breast Carcinoma Can Be a Challenging Diagnosis Without the Use of Tumor Markers, Linda C. Klumpp, Rony Shah, Naeem Syed, Gustavo Fonseca, and Jeffery Jordan
Vitamin D Deficiency and Perceived Pain, Theodore Korty, Adam Grunbaum, Ken Baxa, and Olu Oyesanmi
End the Glow!, Roli Kushwaha, Anthony Furiato, and Justin McNamee
Case of Enterococcus cecorum Human Bacteremia, United States, Alexander D. Lake, Ryan Fields, Francia Guerrero, Yousef Almuzaini, Koravangala Sundaresh, and Joseph Staffetti
A Rare Case of Hypereosinophilic Syndrome-Induced Shower Thrombus Responsive to Nilotinib, Elise Lambird, Arun Amble, Dharti R. Patel MD, Elizabeth Henderson MD, and Salman Muddassir
Evaluating Awareness of Low-Dose Computerized Tomography For Lung Cancer Screening, Roshni LeBoutillier, Bansi Savla, Vincent Wu, Zia Khan, Erick Mejia, Leah Tehranchi, My Myers, Khine Min, Jennifer Broyles, and Stacy Chase
Topical Zinc May Augment Post-Operative Wound Healing, Including Following Mohs Micrographic Surgery: A Review of the Literature, Nicole Levin, Taylor Gray DO, Maheera Farsi, David Dorton, and Richard Miller DO
A 73-Year-Old Woman With a Burning Rash on Her Upper Back, Mara Leyendecker, Taylor Gray DO, Krina Chavda, and Richard Miller
Tumid Lupus Erythematosus: A Rare and Distinctive Variant of Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus Masquerading as Urticarial Vasculitis, Evan Liu, Robert P. Daze, and Summer Moon
Bilateral Sporotrichoid Cutaneous Atypical Mycobacterial Infection Due to Primary Inoculation, Erin Lowe, Alexa Broderick, and Richard Miller
A Case of Systemic Sclerosis Sine Scleroderma, Adrian Lugo, Andrew Cappiello, Nemer Dabage, and Guruswamy Ramamurthy
A Rare Case of Leprosy in West Florida, Adrian Lugo, Taylor Studsrud, Nemer Dabage, and James DeMaio
A Case of Medication-Induced Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage in Neurofibromatosis Type 1, Ashar Mahmood, Liz Palmer, Rebecca Schuyler, Svitlana Sharpovalova, Bilal Nadeem, Mukesh Mehta, Salman Muddassir, Nikolay Mitzov, and Monicka S. Felix
Adaptive Servo-Ventilation Use During Procedural Sedation for Endoscopy on a Morbidly Obese Patient, Timothy Maier, Zulfiqar Fazal, and Jeffrey Huang
A Case of Amiodarone Pulmonary Toxicity with Short-term Amiodarone Use, Abigail McDonald
Case Report: E-cigarette or Vaping Induced Lung Injury, Kyle Meggison, Veronica T. Tucci, and Alfredo Tirado
Iatrogenic Pneumothorax with Subsequent Subcutaneous Emphysema, George Michael, Eric Yuschak, and My Myers
Hailey-Hailey Disease Successfully Treated with Low-Dose Naltrexone, John Moesch and Richard Miller
Bilateral Posterior Fracture-Dislocation of the Proximal Humerus After First-Time Seizure, John D. Murphy, Phillip Braunlich, and Mohit Bansal
Impact of Order Set Use on Stroke Care, Bilal Nadeem, Edward Waseleski, Meryem Maras-Casey, Sabih Alam, Adnan Faruqui, Michael Gutierrez, Maruthsakhi Molugu, Christina Oricompil, Ashar Mahmood, Katherine Torralba, Fatima Agha, Nour Tlimat, Olu Oyesanmi, Irina Davis, Salman Muddassir, and Nikolay Mitzov
Impact of Order Set Use on Stroke Care, Bilal Nadeem, Edward Waseleski, Meryem Maras-Casey, Sabih Alam, Adnan Faruqui, Michael Gutierrez, Maruthsakhi Molugu, Christina Oricompil, Ashar Mahmood, Katherine Torralba, Fatima Agha, Nour Tlimat, Olu Oyesanmi, Salman Muddassir, and Nikolay Mitzov
Type III Gastric Neuroendocrine Tumor: Case Report of a Rare Gastric Carcinoma, Christopher L. Orpiano, Michael Quinn, Gurjeet Kang, Aric Tucker, Aric Tucker, Lakshminarasimhan Venu, and Joseph Staffetti
Benign Ectopic Thyroid Tissue in the Neck: A Case Report of a Rare Finding, Chrispin O. Otondi, Frederick D. Cason, Abdul Waheed, and Mark Kranc
Acute Hypoxic Respiratory Failure Due To Organizing Pneumonia With Lipoid/Cholesterol Component Caused By THC Vaping With E-Cigarette, Jinal K. Patel, Kiran Tirumalasetty, Jessica Khabra, Imran Khan, and Johnathan Frunzi
A Case of Pott's Disease: Typical Presentation of an Uncommon Disease in the United States, Neha Patel, Ravi Patel, Marek Krysztofiak, and K V. Sundaresh
Empyema Caused by Kocuria Kristinae, an Emerging Pathogen for Respiratory Infections, Shani Patel, Aaron Jaffe MD, Hamish S. Patel DO, Murkesh Patel, and Andrew Jung MD
Clinical Conundrum in a Rare Case of Acinetobacter Baumannii Endocarditis of a Mechanical Mitral Valve, Shani Patel, Katie Tribuls, Aaron Jaffe MD, Mili Shah DO, and Domenick Sorresso
Effect of an Electronic Order Set on Newborn Hepatitis B Immunization Rates, Daniel Pedersen, Angelina Rodriguez, Michael King, and Heather Schramm
Other- and All-Cause Mortality Among Men Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer in the PLCO Trial., Dudith Pierre-Victor, Paul F Pinsky, Eric Miller, and Howard Parnes
Management of a Pseudoaneurysm of the Left Common Carotid Artery Origin Due to Blunt Trauma, Joel Prince, Naren Gupta, Thomas Kartis, Maryam Tabrizi, and Martin Rosenthal
Internal Hernia as a Late Complication of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Procedure, Samantha Purton, Gabriel Meshekow, My Myers, Edgar Mercado, and Allan Katz
Hyperammonemic Encephalopathy: A Complication of Gastric Bypass Surgery, Varun Reddy, Jinal K. Patel MD, Dilendra Weerasinghe, and Johnathan Frunzi
Prevalence and Risk Factors for Anemia in a Population With Hidradenitis Suppurativa, Sydney R. Resnik, Emily L. Geisler, Nicolas Reyes, Juan Lozano, Rafael Ramirez-Caussade, and Barry I. Resnik
Treatment of Life Threatening Thrombosis in a Patient with Metastatic Adenocarcinoma and a Profound Coagulopathy, Jan Sambataro, Joshua Hutchins, Kishankumar Patel, Vishal Singh, and Farhan Khan
Giant Splenic Artery Pseudoaneurysm Rupture Presenting as Hemorrhagic Shock, Jaya Sanapati, Parth R. Desai, Locke W. Barber, Johnathan Frunzi, and Timothy Lee
Use of Emergency Manuals to Treat Intraoperative Supraventricular Tachycardia and Hypotension During Exploratory Laparotomy, Kyle Sanchez, Daniel Eskander, Islam Elnagar, and Jeffrey Huang
Should We Interview This Medical Student for General Surgery?, Phil Schertz DO, Ory Newman DO, and Subhasis Misra MD
Facilitators 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
Metoprolol-Associated Central Nervous System Complications, Rony Shah, Alina Babar, Amar G. Patel, Ronald Dortonne, and Jeffery Jordan MD
Right Ventricular Perforation Presenting as Tingling of the Left Breast, Rony Shah, Andrew Barnes MD, Fagun Modi, John W. Royalty DO, and Jeffrey Jordan MD
Hemorrhagic Cholecystitis in a Patient with Cirrhosis and Rectal Cancer, Rony Shah, Linda C. Klumpp, James Craig, Parth Patel, and Jeffrey Jordan MD
Transverse Colon Volvulus in a Patient with Autism, Rony Shah MD, Linda C. Klumpp MD, Juan Negron-Diaz, Torr Carmain, and Jeffery Jordan
Infective Endocarditis Caused by Rhodococcus equi in an Immunocompetent Patient, Rony Shah, Linda C. Klumpp, Nishant Nerella, Gustine Liu-Young, and Jeffery Jordan
Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in a Patient Suspected of Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), Rony Shah MD, Linda C. Klumpp MD, Naeem Syed DO, Parth Patel, and Jeffery Jordan
Evolving de Winter Presentation of Acute Myocardial Infarction, Caroline Shepherd and Anthony Furiato
Use of Emergency Manuals to Treat Delayed Emergence After Robotic-Assisted Cholecystectomy., Wayne R. Simmons, Pavit S Deol, Ali Ahmed-Elamin, and Jeffrey Huang
MH Survival without Dantrolene, Wayne R. Simmons DO, Dandan Feng MD, Zhengliang Ma MD, Xiaoping Gu MD, and Jeffrey Huang
Patient Safety should be the first priority in any healthcare setting, especially during a pandemic. But is it?, Wayne R. Simmons DO and Jeffrey Huang
Cannabis Butane Hash Oil Dabbing Induced Lung Injury Mimicking Atypical Pneumonia, Danica Stephens, Jinal K. Patel, Debra Angelo, and Johnathan Frunzi
Bilateral Pneumonia in a Patient with Chronic Bronchiectasis Caused by Achromobacter xylosoxidans Subspecies denitrificans, Gauthier L. Stepman, Kulveer Dabb, Imran A. Khan, John T. Young, and Johnathan Frunzi MD
Cryptococcal Meningoencephalitis 10 Years After Bone Marrow Transplant in a Patient With Multiple Myeloma, Gauthier L. Stepman, Jaya Sanapati, Debra Angelo, and Johnathan Frunzi
Progressive Dyspnea after use of Electronic Vaping, Taylor Studsrud, Morgan Zegers, Gary Cook, Narrani Kanapathippillai, and Hilton Alemar-Hernandez
Diagnosis of a Longitudinal Vaginal Septum and Possible Uterus Didelphys Secondary to Coital Injury with an Artificial Phallus, Lauren Sword, Olga Marie Colon-Mercado, James Baron, Mark Sanchez, Tiffany R. Tonismae, and Nicole L. Plenty
A Case Of Babesiosis Seen Outside Of Its Endemic Area And Outside Of Its Incubation Period, Kiran Tirumalasetty, Jinal K. Patel, Gauthier L. Stepman, Bassem Zeidan, K V. Sundaresh, Parth R. Desai, and Johnathan Frunzi
A Novel Indication for Oocyte Cryopreservation Prior to Autologous Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Refractory Multiple Sclerosis, Neal R. Trulock, Luke Ying, Edward Zbella, and Mark Sanchez
A Case of COVID-19-Associated Acute Limb Ischemia, Amanda Van Mecl, Viviana Paz, Elsy Navas, and Iftekhar Baig
New Onset Psychosis Secondary to Neurosyphilis, Samantha Linda Jane Vu, Lauren Angela DeMarco, Francis Butler, and Nihal Shah
Segmental Neurofibromatosis: Isolated Eruption of Neurofibromas on the Scapula in a Middle-Aged Man, Christopher White, Brett Brazen, and Richard Miller
Malignant Degeneration of Spiradenoma of the Eyebrow, Christopher White, Kristin Witfill, and Richard Miller
Idiopathic Left Subclavian Artery Dissection, Samantha Williams, Ana Pagan-Jaramillo, Marie-Louise Posch, Sean-Patrick A. Prince MD, and Leonard Hamera MD
Is the Thomas Ring an Effective Approach to Prevent Recurrence of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation with Advanced Atrial Fibrosis?, Ruifang Yang MD, Jose Luis Henao MD, David Goldgrab DO, Sokol Kalaveshi MD, Stephen Mester MD, and Christian Perzanowski MD
Cardioversion of Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Before High Energy Ablation Does Not Improve Outcomes in Short Term Follow Up: Preliminary Analysis, Ruifang Yang MD, Sokol Kalaveshi MD, David Goldgrab DO, Jose Luis Henao MD, Stephen Mester MD, and Christian Perzanowski MD
CT findings of Meckel's diverticulum perforation in a geriatric patient., Grace Yi, Kiran Chavda, and Melvin Omodon
Managing May-Thurner Syndrome and Associated Complications Throughout Pregnancy and Postpartum, Jessica A. Young, Stephen Zweibach, Nicole L. Plenty, and Tiffany Tonismae
Shoulder Stiffness in a 50-Year-Old Female, Eric Yuschak and Stacy Chase
Adverse Side Effects: Empagliflozin-Related Acute Pancreatitis Case Report., Bassem S. Zeidan Jr, Charles Boadu, Andrea Hernandez, Johnathan Frunzi, and Itioye Adetula
A Rare Cause of Pneumoperitoneum, Robert Zusman, George Michael, Anna E. Augustin, My Myers, and Dudith Pierre-Victor
Submissions from 2019
Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in a Traveler: A Case Report, Sarah Al-Obaydi MD, Nemer Dabage MD, and James DeMaio MD
Availability of Pain Medications for NPO Patients, Anna Augustin DO, Kyle Borodunovich DO, Sean Quinonez DO, Furqan Haq, and My Myers MD
Nocardia beijingensis: A Rare and Unusual Cause of Intracranial Abscess, Lakshpaul Chauhan MD, Nirali Vassa MD, Elizabeth Henderson MD, Ateeq Mubarik MD, Danish M. Siddiq MD, and Abdulmagid Eddib MD
Nitrofurantoin Induced Lung Toxicity: A Rare Adverse Effect, Farrah Chilet MD, Nour Tlimat MD, and Salman Muddassir MD
Felty's Syndrome: Triad Not Always Evident, Pablo G. Dubon MD, Frederick Lim MD, Shfali Bhandari MD, Sukhmani Chauhan MD, Puja Solanki MD, and Luis Silva MD
A Rare Case of Cutis Verticis Gyrata with Underlying Cerebriform Intradermal Nevus, Lisa F. Fronek, Katherine Braunlich, Maheera Farsi, and Richard Miller
Can the LAAOS Score Predict Recurrence IiPatients Undergoing Persistent Atrial Fibrillation Ablation? A Pilot Study, Jose Luis Henao, Sokol Kalaveshi, Stephen Mester MD, and Christian Perzanowski
Nivolumab Induced Myasthenia Gravis, Elizabeth Henderson MD, Imad Ikhawn MD, Dharti R. Patel MD, and Monicka Felix
Doxycycline-Induced Acute Pancreatitis: A Likely Source Rarely Seen, Paul Hoffman DO, Wilco Civil Sr, Jung Yoon DO, Gurjeet Kang DO, Christopher Lozano Orpiano DO, Michael Quinn DO, Joseph Staffetti MD, Dilip Ghanekar MD, Lakshminarasimhan Venu MD, Lily N. Jones DO, Ji Kwon DO, and Shaival Thakore MD
Thrombocytopenia with Multiple Splenic Lesions - histiocytic sarcoma of the spleen without splenomegaly: A case report, Kai Huang, Alvaro Frometa, Rober W. Allan, and Subhasis Misra
Pro: Shift work surgery: Loss of continuity or sensible balance of responsibility?, Suy Sen Hung Fong MD and Subhasis Misra MD
Duodenal Diverticulitis: To Operate or Not To Operate?, Sahned Jaafar MD, SuySen Hung Fong, Dereen Mohammed Saeed, and Subhasis Misra
Post-Esophagogastroduodenoscopy Negative Pressure Pulmonary Edema, Sana Khan DO, Vijay Srinivasan, Nemer Dabage, Shashank Varakantam, Paul Lange, and Nickolas Meyerkord
Reactivation of Histoplasmosis Disseminated into the Central Nervous System Presenting as a Stroke, Linda C. Klumpp, Gustine Liu-Young, Fagun Modi, Jeffrey Jordan, and Rony Shah
Reactivation of Histoplasmosis Disseminated into the Central Nervous System Presenting as a Stroke, Linda C. Klumpp, Gustine Liu-Young, Fagun Modi, Jeffrey Jordan MD, and Rony Shah