By Jon-Emile S Kenny
Faculty Peer Reviewed
A 65-year-old female with locally advanced rectal cancer is admitted to the ICU, hypotensive and febrile. Her PICC line is removed and blood …
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Clinical Correlations
Grand Rounds: Influenza Pandemic
November 18, 2010
Summary by Lakshmi Tummala, MD
The Medical Grand Rounds lecture on October 6, 2010 titled “Influenza 2010: Update after the 2009 Pandemic was presented by Dr. Alicia Fry, M.D., MPH an …
Mystery Quiz- The Answer
November 13, 2010Dana Clutter, MD
Edited by Vivian Hayashi MD and Robert Smith MD, Mystery Quiz Section Editors
Faculty peer reviewed
The answer to the mystery quiz is bacillary angiomatosis (BA). BA is a disease that most frequently affects individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and typically …
How do you Manage the Adult with Perinatally Acquired Hepatitis B?
October 22, 2010
Nathaniel Rosso Smilowitz, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Hepatitis B virus is a DNA hepadnavirus affecting 1.25 million people in the United States and nearly 400 million worldwide. The virus …
From the Archives: Should All Patients with Cellulitis Be Treated for Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus?
October 14, 2010Please enjoy a post from the Clinical Correlations Archives, first posted 1/22/09
Commentary by Melanie Maslow, MD, FACP, Associate Professor of Medicine, NYUSOM, Chief, Infectious Diseases, New York Harbor Healthcare System, NY
Faculty …
Circumcision as Primary Protection?
October 8, 2010
Emily Taylor, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The earliest documented evidence of circumcision is in artwork from the Sixth Dynasty …
The Challenge of Measles Control
September 15, 2010
By Taher Modarressi
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Measles remains one of the leading causes of preventable child mortality worldwide, despite the development of an effective vaccine in the 1960s. Even …
Antimicrobial Therapy Geared at Pseudomonas aeruginosa for Bronchiectasis
April 7, 2010
Diana Hubulashvili, Pharm.D.
Edited by Tania Ahuja, Pharm.D., BCPS
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