Please enjoy this post from the archives, dated January 11, 2012
By Kristen Mattei
Faculty Peer Reviewed
I distinctly remember being 9 years old, sitting in my doctor’s office after a cold left me struggling for breath, doubled over and wheezing, when …
Sick and tired of all those top 10 lists? We beg your indulgence and hope you will tolerate just one more, the Clinical Correlations Top …
From all of us to all of you …Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Clinical Correlations will be on a short hiatus. We will resume …
By: Kristina Cieslak
This Wednesday, President Obama announced plans to “end an outdated approach, that for decades, has failed to advance our interests,†ordering restoration of …
Vivian Hayashi MD, Robert Smith MD
The answer to the mystery quiz is pleural effusions, specifically, bilateral subpulmonic effusions. The chest radiograph shows a number of findings: (1) the apparent diaphragm shadow is in fact fluid sandwiched between the undersurface of the lung and the actual diaphragm (Image 2a, arrow); (2) …
By Joseph Plaksin
Peer Reviewed
This week, the Senate Intelligence Committee declassified a 500-page report that outlined and described uses of torture by the CIA to interrogate suspected …
By Miguel A. Saldivar, MD
Peer ReviewedÂ
When a patient with diabetes comes into a clinic or hospital, it is not uncommon to hear the question, “Is he/she on an angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitor (ACEI) or an angiotensin-receptor blocker (ARB)?” Most …
By Amar Parikh, MD
Peer Reviewed
This week, the nation was rocked by the decision of a Staten Island grand jury to not indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the …