Commentary by Daniel Egan MD, PGY2
Please also see the clinical vignette presented during last week’sgrand rounds
On Wednesday, September 24, 2008, the NYU Department of Medicine Grand Rounds featured guest speaker Hilary Calvert, …
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Clinical Correlations
Propofol Infusion Syndrome: An Unusual Case of Lactic Acidosis
October 1, 2008
Commentary by Bani Chander MD, PGY-3Â and Reviewed by Laura Evans MD, NYU Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Case presentation:
The patient is a 26 year-old female with long-standing refractory epilepsy, status …
Mystery Quiz- The Answer
September 27, 2008
Posted by Vivian Hayashi MD and Robert Smith MD,
Mystery Quiz Section Editors
The answer to last week’s mystery quiz is pneumatocele/pseudocyst likely due to ventilator associated lung injury (VALI) in a patient with ARDS. …
Meeting Perspectives: The ADA Scientific Sessions: Advances in the Pharmacologic Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
September 25, 2008
Commentary by  Howard Furst MD and Mitchell Charap MD
We will focus our review of the 2008 ADA meetings on new data regarding the GLP-1 analogues and the DPP 4 inhibitors. Before …
Grand Rounds: Thyroid Disease and the Heart
September 24, 2008Â Commentary by Sarika Modi MD, PGY-2Â Â
Dr. Irwin Klein MD, Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology, of North Shore University Hospital, gave grand rounds on “Thyroid Disease and the Heart” on September …
Mystery Quiz
September 19, 2008Posted by Vivian Hayashi MD and Robert Smith MD, Mystery Quiz Section Editors
The patient is a 76 year old man with history of moderate-to-severe COPD who presented with three days of fever, breathlessness, and productive cough. Past surgical history is significant for vagotomy and partial gastrectomy 16 years earlier and a cholecystectomy …
Grand Rounds: “Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Acute Lung Injury”
September 17, 2008
Commentary by Matthias Kugler MD, PGY-3
Please also see the Grand Rounds Clinical Vignette
Leonhard D Hudson, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Division, University of Washington, Seattle, spoke at Medical Grand Rounds about the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome …
Grand Rounds: “Bacterial Meningitis”
September 11, 2008
Commentary by  Stephen Carpenter MD, PGY-2
Dr. Vincent Quagliarello, Professor of Medicine at Yale University, delivered his Medicine Grand Rounds lecture entitled “Bacterial Meningitis in Adults: Principles and Practice in 2008†on …