{"title":"De-implementation of Fecal Occult Blood Testing in the Emergency Department and Hospital Units: A Quality Improvement Project","authors":"A. Ajumobi, J. De Castro, Ammar Qureshi","doi":"10.55729/2000-9666.1286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55729/2000-9666.1286","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15460,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139627572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making Sense: Treating Patients with Opioid Use Disorder through the Lens of Game Theory","authors":"Ho-Man Yeung, Shreya Makkapati","doi":"10.55729/2000-9666.1277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55729/2000-9666.1277","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15460,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139534691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ezhilkugan Ganessane, S. Mahalingam, Selva Ganesan
{"title":"Non-ketotic hyperglycemia unmasks hemichorea - A reply","authors":"Ezhilkugan Ganessane, S. Mahalingam, Selva Ganesan","doi":"10.55729/2000-9666.1292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55729/2000-9666.1292","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15460,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139439231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Sivasubramanian, Viraj Panchal, D. B. Ravikumar, S. Puli, Aalok V. Khole, Gerard Kiernan, V. S. Venkata
{"title":"A Stitch In Time Saves Nine: Planning for Artesunate Supply With Malaria On The Rise","authors":"B. Sivasubramanian, Viraj Panchal, D. B. Ravikumar, S. Puli, Aalok V. Khole, Gerard Kiernan, V. S. Venkata","doi":"10.55729/2000-9666.1290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55729/2000-9666.1290","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15460,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139627024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Ravilla, F. Heis, Siva Naga Srinivas Yarrarapu, Jian Li, Sobaan Taj, Harshavardhan Sanekommu, Muhammed Tayyeb, Du Doantrang, Andrew Kruger
{"title":"Primary Diffuse large B-cell Lymphoma of the colon presenting as Idiopathic thrombocytopenia : A case report","authors":"J. Ravilla, F. Heis, Siva Naga Srinivas Yarrarapu, Jian Li, Sobaan Taj, Harshavardhan Sanekommu, Muhammed Tayyeb, Du Doantrang, Andrew Kruger","doi":"10.55729/2000-9666.1284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55729/2000-9666.1284","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15460,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139534608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michelle M. Ojard, S. Yarrarapu, Pramod Guru, Lauren K. Ng Tucker, D. Sanghavi
{"title":"Bronchoscopy-guided Cryotherapy for Airway Obstruction from Bronchial Cast","authors":"Michelle M. Ojard, S. Yarrarapu, Pramod Guru, Lauren K. Ng Tucker, D. Sanghavi","doi":"10.55729/2000-9666.1275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55729/2000-9666.1275","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15460,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139534777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Indira Acharya, Lanaya Williams Smith, Chandralekha Banerjee, L. Camire, Radhika Vij
{"title":"Reactive Arthritis After Mpox Vaccination","authors":"Indira Acharya, Lanaya Williams Smith, Chandralekha Banerjee, L. Camire, Radhika Vij","doi":"10.55729/2000-9666.1287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55729/2000-9666.1287","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15460,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139534692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ahmed Ali Aziz, Muhammad Aziz, Deep Mehta, Muhammad Humayoun Rashid
{"title":"Autoimmune Hepatitis: An unusual presentation.","authors":"Ahmed Ali Aziz, Muhammad Aziz, Deep Mehta, Muhammad Humayoun Rashid","doi":"10.55729/2000-9666.1291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55729/2000-9666.1291","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15460,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139534910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Severe Thrombocytopenia in Infective Endocarditis","authors":"Mayuri Patel, Biplov Adhikari, Amrit Devkota, Mahsa Mohebtash","doi":"10.55729/2000-9666.1272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55729/2000-9666.1272","url":null,"abstract":"Thrombocytopenia can be seen in about 20-25% of patients with bacterial infective endocarditis (IE). Platelets have a major role in the pathogenesis of endocarditis, and they are also sensitive monitors of systemic host response to bacteremia. Thrombocytopenia on presentation of patients with IE identifies higher risk groups and carries higher mortality risk. The presence of thrombocytopenia is an independent prognosticator of poor outcomes in IE. We present a case of a 40-year-old male with the history of injection drug use who was diagnosed with IE and was found to have severe thrombocytopenia on admission was treated with intravenous antibiotics, which dramatically improved his platelet counts as well without any need for plasmapheresis or platelet transfusions.","PeriodicalId":15460,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135774766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marlon Eliu Rivera Boadla, Azka Naeem, Sapna Kumari, Syed Mohammad Mazhar Uddin, Arafat Farooqui, Sanjay Maheshwari, Armando Seitllari, Zara Haq, Muhammad Hashim Khan, David J. Epstein, Sehajpreet Singh, Gerald Hollander, Kelash Kumar
{"title":"Third-Degree Heart Block in COVID-19 Pneumonia Complicated by Methicillin- Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Bacteremia. A case report and review of literature","authors":"Marlon Eliu Rivera Boadla, Azka Naeem, Sapna Kumari, Syed Mohammad Mazhar Uddin, Arafat Farooqui, Sanjay Maheshwari, Armando Seitllari, Zara Haq, Muhammad Hashim Khan, David J. Epstein, Sehajpreet Singh, Gerald Hollander, Kelash Kumar","doi":"10.55729/2000-9666.1269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.55729/2000-9666.1269","url":null,"abstract":"Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) burden has been identified to cause multiorgan damage. Respiratory compromise is still one of the most common presentations, but cardiac injuries like myocardial injury, ischemia, and conduction abnormalities are also becoming prevalent. We present a case of an 87-year-old male with a history of dementia, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and a left kidney transplant hospitalized for respiratory distress and generalized tonic-clonic seizures. He was bradycardic to 27 beats per minute, hypotensive with mean arterial pressure(EKG) depicted a high-grade atrioventricular block (AV-block). The transvenous pacemaker was placed via femoral access and tested positive for COVID-19. Work-up was done to rule out possible causes of bradycardia, like hypothyroidism, ischemia, AV nodal blocking agents, and drug-induced bradycardia was negative. His hospital stay got complicated by methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) pneumonia leading to empyema and bacteremia. Unfortunately, being critically ill, the family opted for comfort measures, and he passed away. Our clinical vignette signifies cardiovascular complications in COVID-19 patients are associated with poor outcomes if not addressed. The conduction abnormalities in patients with intact cardiac structure and function are becoming more common in the setting of COVID infection. Assessment with serial EKGs and cardiac monitoring might be essential as patients can develop AV blocks at any point of the disease.","PeriodicalId":15460,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135774779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}