Elkattawy, Sherif Alyacoub, Ramez Ejikeme, Chidinma Noori, Muhammad Atif Masood Remolina, Carlos
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Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives
Naloxone-induced noncardiogenic pulmonary edema is a rare but reported entity that can occur following naloxone use in the reversal of opioid overdose. Proposed mechanisms include an adrenergic crisis secondary to catecholamine surge which causes more volume shift to pulmonary vasculature, subsequently leading to pulmonary edema. It appears to be m...
Udani, Kunjan Patel, Dveet Hart, Leslie Nambudiri, Vinod
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Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives
Congestive heart failure (CHF) exacerbations are a frequent cause of hospitalization. Thyroid hormones impact myocardial function; elevated levels of thyroxine, as seen in hyperthyroidism (HT), can worsen CHF symptoms. We retrospectively evaluated the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) Enterprise Data Warehouse and examined mortality and length ...
Lanham, Theresa Lanham, Erik Sullivan, Abigayle Magaji, Vasudev
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Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives
Primary thyroid lymphoma is incredibly rare with an annual incidence of approximately 2.1 per million persons, accounting for 2% of thyroid malignancies. One of the only known risk factors is autoimmune thyroid disease, specifically Hashimoto’s, although there have been a few cases of thyroid lymphoma associated with Graves’ disease. Here, we prese...
Ceserani, Norberto Motterlini, Enrico Albergati, Michele Barbieri, Fulvio Valcarenghi, Marco Carbone, Alessia Bergonzi, Giovanni Di Biase, Pasquale Chiarello, Antonino Colpani, Maria
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The Coronavirus epidemic quickly spread in Italy from China. In particular, it affected Bergamo province where Romano di Lombardia hospital is situated. Therefore, this hospital felt the urgency to requalify its activity in no time. It transformed itself into a unique centralized subintensive department to treat COVID-19 patients. The factors that ...
Bergbower, Emily Anne Smith Qureshi, Anum Sandhu, Hargeet Slack, Donald
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Libera, Robert Macaulay, Kyle Donato, Anthony A. Green, Jared McCarty, Christine
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Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare complication in pregnancy that is associated with significant morbidity and mortality to both mother and fetus. We present a case of a 27-year-old female at 22-weeks gestation with a history of intravenous drug abuse (IVDA) who developed methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus tricuspid valve endocarditis w...
Ramgobin, Devyani McClafferty, Brendan Kramer, Courtney Golamari, Reshma McGillen, Brian Jain, Rohit
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Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives
Background : COVID-19 has altered numerous lives and accounted for significant mortality and morbidity throughout the world and, especially, the USA. During the pandemic, from mid-March to July 2020, around one-fourth of the US population filed for unemployment benefits. Objective : In this article, we discuss the economic ramifications exposed in ...
Latif, Azka Ahsan, Muhammad Junaid Lateef, Noman Kapoor, Vikas Mirza, Mohsin Mansoor Anwer, Faiz Del Core, Michael Kanmantha Reddy, Arun
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Introduction : Since the approval of transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), nonagenarian group patients are being increasingly considered for TAVR. Therefore, we compared the clinical outcomes of surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) vs TAVR in nonagenarians with severe aortic stenosis. Methods : A literature search was performed using M...
Sheikh, Abu Baker Javed, Nismat Ijaz, Zainab Barlas, Venus Shekhar, Rahul Rukov, Blavir
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Introduction : Iron deficiency anemia is a major problem worldwide treated by replenishment of iron stores. The treatment is complicated by differing pharmacodynamics of administrative routes, equations with design effects, ongoing losses, additional daily requirement, plateauing of markers required for iron absorption, food–drug interactions, gend...
Shrestha, Binav Alhafidh, Oday Mukhtar, Osama Pata, Ramakanth Goel Kc, Nabin Chobufo, Muchi Ditah Gayam, Vijay Kandel, Saroj Thapa, Shivani Enriquez, Danilo
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Introduction: Novel Corona Virus Disease 19 has created unforeseen burden on health care. New York city is one of the epicenters of pandemic and here we explore physical, mental and social impact of COVID 19 on Resident Physicians (RP) working within the center of this epicenter. Methods: This is a single-center cross-sectional web-based survey inv...