Submissions from 2016
Reduction of Clinical Culture Contamination in an Inpatient Medical Unit by Revisiting Microbiology Education., Bona Yoon, Monica Irmler, Charles Faselis, and Angelike P. Liappis
Preface, L G. Zhang and D L. Kaplan
Dopamine D2 receptors’ effects on renal inflammation are mediated by regulation of PP2A function, Yanrong Zhang, Xiaoliang Jiang, Chuan Qin, Santiago Cuevas, Pedro A. Jose, and Ines Armando
Submissions from 2015
Relationship of physical activity and healthy eating with mortality and incident heart failure among community-dwelling older adults with normal body mass index, Ahmed Abdelmawgoud, Cynthia J. Brown, Xuemei Sui, Gregg C. Fonarow, Peter F. Kokkinos, Vera Bittner, Wilbert S. Aronow, Raya Kheirbek, Ross D. Fletcher, Steven N. Blair, and Ali Ahmed
Intracranial hypertension and memory loss in a patient treated with ustekinumab., Mai Abdelnabi, Jack Short, Suzan Khoromi, and Alison Ehrlich
A cost-effective interdisciplinary approach to microbiologic send-out test use., Scott W. Aesif, David M. Parenti, Linda Lesky, and John F. Keiser
New Treatments for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Anita Aggarwal
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) and Pulmonary Embolism (PE): Awareness and Prophylaxis Practices Reported by Patients with Cancer, Anita Aggarwal, Lisa Fullam, Alan P. Brownstein, Gregory A. Maynard, Jack Ansell, Elizabeth A. Varga, Richard J. Friedman, and Frederick R. Rickles
Intense pruritus in Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) hepatitis treated with naloxone drip, Satyanisth Agrawal, Ryan O'Connor, Elie Aoun, and Michael Babich
Risk of Heart Failure and Death After Prolonged Smoking Cessation: Role of Amount and Duration of Prior Smoking., Amiya A Ahmed, Kanan Patel, Margaret A Nyaku, Raya E Kheirbek, Vera Bittner, Gregg C Fonarow, and + 13 more
Impaired osteoblast and osteoclast function characterize the osteoporosis of Snyder - Robinson syndrome., Jessica S. Albert, Nisan Bhattacharyya, Lynne A. Wolfe, William P. Bone, Valerie Maduro, John Accardi, David R. Adams, Charles E. Schwartz, Joy Norris, Tim Wood, Rachel I Gafni, Michael T. Collins, Laura L. Tosi, Thomas C. Markello, William A. Gahl, and Cornelius F. Boerkoel
West Nile Virus-Associated Acute Flaccid Paralysis., Ashely Alker
Isolation of Leclercia adecarboxylata from a patient with a subungual splinter., Rina Allawh and Brendan J Camp
Comparison of risk and age at diagnosis of myocardial infarction, end-stage renal disease, and non-AIDS-defining cancer in HIV-infected vs uninfected adults, Keri N. Althoff, Kathleen A. McGinnis, Christina M. Wyatt, Matthew S. Freiberg, Cynthia L. Gibert, and +10 additional authors
Levetiracetam-induced pancytopenia, Talal Alzahrani, Dana Kay, Saeed A. Alqahtani, Yamane Makke, Linda Lesky, and Mohamad Z. Koubeissi
Findings from a pilot environmental health intervention at early childhood centers in the District of Columbia., Aurora O Amoah, Nsedu O Witherspoon, Joanne Pérodin, and Jerome A. Paulson
Circulating Tumor Cells in Biochemical Recurrence of Prostate Cancer., Jeanny B. Aragon-Ching, Robert S. Siegel, Harold Frazier, Ramez Andrawis, Frederick Hendricks, Michael Phillips, Thomas Jarrett, Hiwot Guebre-Xabiher, Steven Patierno, and Samuel J Simmens
Kidney Function and Cardiovascular Events in Postmenopausal Women: The Impact of Race and Ethnicity in the Women's Health Initiative., Cristina M. Arce, Jinnie J. Rhee, Katharine L. Cheung, Haley Hedlin, Kristopher Kapphahn, Lisa W. Martin, and et al.
The renal dopaminergic system: Novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches in hypertension and kidney disease, Ines Armando, Prasad Konkalmatt, Robin A. Felder, and Pedro A. Jose
Genomics and pharmacogenomics of salt-sensitive hypertension, Ines Armando, Van Anthony M. Villar, and Pedro A. Jose
Pediatric and adult Chiari malformation Type I surgical series 1965-2013: a review of demographics, operative treatment, and outcomes., Aska Arnautovic, Bruno Splavski, Frederick A. Boop, and Kenan I. Arnautovic
Safe Medication Reconciliation: An Intervention to Improve Residents' Medication Reconciliation Skills., Cherinne Arundel, Jessica Logan, Ribka Ayana, Jacqueline Gannuscio, Jennifer Kerns, and Rebecca Swenson
Association of COPD with risk for pulmonary infections requiring hospitalization in HIV-infected Veterans., Engi F Attia, Kathleen A McGinnis, Laura C Feemster, Kathleen M Akgün, Adeel A Butt, Christopher J Graber, Cynthia L. Gibert, and +12 additional authors
Immunologic and Infectious Diseases in Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care: Proceedings of the 10th International Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society Conference., David M. Axelrod, Jeffrey A. Alten, John T. Berger, Mark W. Hall, Ravi Thiagarajan, and Ronald A. Bronicki
CD8+ T-cells count in acute myocardial infarction in HIV disease in a predominantly male cohort., Oluwatosin A Badejo, Chung-Chou Chang, Kaku A So-Armah, Russell P Tracy, Jason V Baker, David Rimland, Adeel A Butt, Adam J Gordon, Charles R Rinaldo, Kevin Kraemer, Jeffrey H Samet, Hilary A Tindle, Matthew B Goetz, Maria C Rodriguez-Barradas, Roger Bedimo, Cynthia L Gibert, David A Leaf, Lewis H Kuller, Steven G Deeks, Amy C Justice, and Matthew S Freiberg
High-sensitivity troponin-T and n-terminal pro-b-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and risk of incident heart failure in patients with CKD: The Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) study, Nisha Bansal, Amanda Hyre Anderson, Wei Yang, Robert H. Christenson, Christopher R. deFilippi, Rajat Deo, Daniel L. Dries, Alan S. Go, Jiang He, John W. Kusek, Dominic S. Raj, Sylvia Rosas, Myles Wolf, Xiaoming Zhang, Michael G. Shlipak, and Harold I. Feldman
A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Changes in Body Weight in Clinical Trials of Vegetarian Diets., Neal D. Barnard, Susan M. Levin, and Yoko Yokoyama
Gut Feeling in AKI: The Long Arm of Short-Chain Fatty Acids., Ian R. Barrows, Ali Ramezani, and Dominic S. Raj
Strategies to Improve Survival From Cardiac Arrest: A Report From the Institute of Medicine., Lance B Becker, Tom P Aufderheide, and Robert Graham
Professional Identity Development Through Service Learning, Jimmy Beck, Katherine Chretien, and Terry Kind
Onychopapilloma Presenting as Longitudinal Erythronychia in an Adolescent., Sarah Beggs, Niraj Butala, Warren R. Heymann, and Adam I. Rubin
Penile dimensions in type 2 diabetes, I. I. Belousov, M. I. Kogan, H. S. Ibishev, S. V. Vorobyev, I. A. Khripun, and Z. R. Gusova
True durability: HIV virologic suppression in an urban clinic and implications for timing of intensive adherence efforts and viral load monitoring., Debra A Benator, Angelo Elmi, Manuel D Rodriguez, Howard B Gale, Virginia L. Kan, Heather J. Hoffman, Susan Tramazzo, Karen Hall, Angela McKnight, and Leah Squires
True durability: HIV virologic suppression in an urban clinic and implications for timing of intensive adherence efforts and viral load monitoring, Debra A. Benator, Angelo Elmi, Manuel D. Rodriguez, Howard B. Gale, Virginia L. Kan, Heather J. Hoffman, Susan Tramazzo, Karen Hall, Angela McKnight, and Leah Squires
Standardized patient assessment of medical student empathy: ethnicity and gender effects in a multi-institutional study., Katherine Berg, Benjamin Blatt, Joseph Lopreiato, Julianna Jung, Arielle Schaeffer, Daniel Heil, Tamara Owens, Pamela L. Carter-Nolan, Dale Berg, Jon Veloski, Elizabeth Darby, and Mohammadreza Hojat
Improved surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma with a primary care-oriented clinical reminder, Lauren A. Beste, George N. Ioannou, Yang Yin, Michael F. Chang, David Ross, and Jason A. Dominitz
Update on prevention and treatment of intestinal helminth infections., Paul Blair and David Diemert
DRESS syndrome presenting after initiation of mycobacterium avium complex osteomyelitis treatment., Paul W Blair, Douglas Herrin, Nawaf Abaalkhail, and Wesley Fiser
Three months of weekly rifapentine plus isoniazid is less hepatotoxic than nine months of daily isoniazid for LTBI., E. E. Bliven-Sizemore, T. R. Sterling, N. Shang, Debra Benator, K. Schwartzman, R Reves, and + 3 more
Participation of Medical Students in Discharge Tasks: A Needs Assessment., Lauren Block, Melissa Morgan-Gouveia, William Kelly, Mily Kannarkat, Katherine C. Chretien, and Danelle Cayea
Bringing Patient-Centered Outcomes Research to Life, William B. Borden, Yen-Pin Chiang, and Richard Kronick
A New Conceptual Framework for Academic Health Centers, William B. Borden, Alvin I. Mushlin, Jonathan E. Gordon, Joan M. Leiman, and Herbert Pardes
Integrating spirituality as a key component of patient care, Suzette Bremault-Phillips, Joanne Olson, Pamela Brett-MacLean, Doreen Oneschuk, Shane SInclair, Ralph Magnus, Jeanne Weis, Marjan Abbasi, Jasneet Parmar, and Christina M. Puchalski
Follow-up after gastric electrical stimulation for gastroparesis., Fred Brody, Sara L Zettervall, Nathan G Richards, Cathy Garey, Richard L. Amdur, Antoinette Saddler, and M Aamir Ali
Informed Consent at Gunpoint: When Psychiatry Affects Gun Ownership., Philip J Candilis, Gagandeep Khurana, Gregory B Leong, and Robert Weinstock
Sorting through the lost and found: Are patient perceptions of engagement in care consistent with standard continuum of care measures?, Amanda D. Castel, Wenze Tang, James Peterson, Meriam Mikre, David Parenti, Richard Elion, Angela Wood, Irene Kuo, Sarah Willis, Sean Allen, Paige Kulie, Ifeoma Ikwuemesi, Kossia Dassie, Jillian Dunning, Brittani Saafir-Callaway, and Alan Greenberg
Anesthesia-Induced Neuronal Apoptosis in the Developing Retina: A Window of Opportunity., Ying Cheng, Linda He, Vidhya Prasad, Shuang Wang, and Richard J. Levy
Traditional and non-traditional risk factors for incident peripheral arterial disease among patients with chronic kidney disease., Jing Chen, Emile R. Mohler, Dawei Xie, Michael Shlipak, Raymond R. Townsend, Lawrence J. Appel, Dominic Raj, and + 9 more
Activation of D4 dopamine receptor decreases angiotensin II type 1 receptor expression in rat renal proximal tubule cells., Ken Chen, Kun Deng, Xiaoyan Wang, Zhen Wang, Shuo Zheng, Hongmei Ren, Duofen He, Yu Han, Laureano D. Asico, Pedro A. Jose, and Chunyu Zeng
African Americans may access the emergency department for inflammatory bowel disease care more often than whites, Ricardo Chia and Marie L. Borum
Periprostatic inflammation as a risk factor for the development of vesico-urethral stenosis after radical prostatectomy, M. B. Chibichyan, M. I. Kogan, T. O. Lapteva, I. I. Belousov, A. G. Ivanov, and E. A. Chernogubova
What Are We Telling Our Students? A National Survey of Clerkship Directors' Advice for Students Applying to Internal Medicine Residency, Katherine C. Chretien, D. Michael Elnicki, Diane Levine, Meenakshy Aiyer, Alwin Steinmann, and Laura R. Willett
Tell Me Your Story: A Pilot Narrative Medicine Curriculum During the Medicine Clerkship., Katherine C. Chretien, Rebecca Swenson, Bona Yoon, Ricklie Julian, Jonathan Keenan, James Croffoot, and Raya Kheirbek
Tell Me Your Story: A Pilot Narrative Medicine Curriculum During the Medicine Clerkship., Katherine C. Chretien, Rebecca Swenson, Bona Yoon, Ricklie Julian, Jonathan Keenan, James Croffoot, and Raya Kheirbek
Online professionalism: A synthetic review., Katherine C. Chretien and Matthew G. Tuck
A Digital Ethnography of Medical Students who Use Twitter for Professional Development, Katherine C. Chretien, Matthew Tuck, Michael Simon, Lisa O. Singh, and Terry Kind
Approach to the Patient with Chronic Glomerular Disease, Scott D. Cohen and Gerald B. Appel
Pain and Chronic Kidney Disease, Scott D. Cohen and Sara Davison
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Chronic Kidney Disease, Scott D. Cohen, Jeffrey B. Kopp, Helen Cathro, and Paul L. Kimmel
Computerized Cognitive Training for Amelioration of Cognitive Late Effects Among Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Randomized Controlled Trial., Heather M. Conklin, Robert J. Ogg, Jason M. Ashford, Matthew A. Scoggins, Thomas E. Merchant, Kristina K. Hardy, and + 7 more
Increased Education About Inflammatory Bowel Disease Can Increase Support of Retail Store Managers for Restroom Access Legislation., Michelle Corinaldi, Michael Corinaldi, Timothy Dougherty, and Marie L. Borum
Role of Nuclear Factor Erythroid 2-Related Factor 2 in the Oxidative Stress-Dependent Hypertension Associated with the Depletion of DJ-1, Santiago Cuevas, Yu Yang, Prasad Konkalmatt, Laureano D. Asico, Jun Feranil, John Jones, Van Anthony Villar, Ines Armando, and Pedro A. Jose
Role of Nuclear Factor Erythroid 2-Related Factor 2 in the Oxidative Stress-Dependent Hypertension Associated with the Depletion of DJ-1, Santiago Cuevas, Yu Yang, Prasad Konkalmatt, Laureano D. Asico, Jun Feranil, John Jones, Van Anthony Villar, Ines Armando, and Pedro A. Jose
Peritonitis, acute, Jessica Davis, Justin Thomas Ertle, and Marie L. Borum
Clinical Practice Patterns Suggest Female Patients Prefer Female Endoscopists, Jessica Davis, Brandon Rieders, and Marie L. Borum
Translation initiation complex eIF4F is a therapeutic target for dual mTOR kinase inhibitors in non-Hodgkin lymphoma., Christos Demosthenous, Jing Jing Han, Mary J Stenson, Matthew J Maurer, Linda E Wellik, Brian Link, Kristen Hege, Ahmet Dogan, Eduardo Sotomayor, Thomas Witzig, and Mamta Gupta
KRAS as a predictor of poor prognosis and benefit from postoperative FOLFOX chemotherapy in patients with stage II and III colorectal cancer, Yanhong Deng, Li Wang, Shuyun Tan, George P. Kim, Ruoxu Dou, Dianke Chen, Yue Cai, Xinhui Fu, Lei Wang, Jun Zhu, and Jianping Wang
A Prospective, Randomized, Multi-Center, Open-Label Clinical Trial Comparing Intradiscal Biacuplasty to Conventional Medical Management for Discogenic Lumbar Back Pain., Mehul J. Desai, Leonardo Kapural, Jeffrey D. Petersohn, Ricardo Vallejo, Robert Menzies, Michael Creamer, and Michael Gofeld
Report of the NIH task force on research standards for chronic low back pain, Richard A. Deyo, Samuel F. Dworkin, Dagmar Amtmann, Gunnar Andersson, David G. Borenstein, and +15 additional author
THE ROLE OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF STRICTURE DISEASE OF THE MALE URETHRA, V. I. Dombrowski, M. I. Kogan, E. L. Banchik, and V. V. Mitusov
Exaggerated Blood Pressure Response to Exercise: Will It Ever Be Ready for Prime Time?, Michael Doumas, Charles O. Faselis, and Peter Kokkinos
Arterial Stiffness and Emerging Biomarkers: Still a Long Journey to Go., Michael Doumas, Vasilios Papademetriou, Vasilios Athyros, and Asterios Karagiannis
Impact of defined clinical population and missing data on temporal trends in HIV viral load estimation within a health care system., E J Edelman, J P Tate, D A Fiellin, S T Brown, K Bryant, N Gandhi, Cynthia L. Gibert, M B Goetz, K S Gordon, M C Rodriguez-Barradas, R S Braithwaite, D Rimland, and A C Justice
Radium-223 for the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer, Joelle El-Amm and Jeanny B. Aragon-Ching
Drug therapies for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer., Ehab El-Bahesh, Antoine Finianos, Abeer Alfaraj, and Jeanny B. Aragon-Ching
The Religion of “I Don’t Know” Naturalistic Pilot Observations of Spiritual Conversations Occurring During Cancer Home Hospice Nurse Visits, Lee Ellington, Maija Reblin, Betty Ferrell, Christina M. Puchalski, Shirley Otis-Green, George Handzo, Katherine Doyon, and Margaret F. Clayton
American Cancer Society Colorectal Cancer Survivorship Care Guidelines., Khaled El-Shami, Kevin C Oeffinger, Nicole L Erb, Anne Willis, Jennifer K Bretsch, Mandi L Pratt-Chapman, and +8 additional authors
American Cancer Society Colorectal Cancer Survivorship Care Guidelines, Khaled El-Shami, Kevin Oeffinger, Anne Willis, Jennifer Bretsch, Mandi Pratt-Chapman, Rachel Cannady, Sandra Wong, April Barbour, Kevin Stein, Katherine Sharpe, Durado Brooks, and Rebecca Cowens-Alvarado
Using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging to evaluate cardiac function and predict outcomes in patients with valvular heart disease, Dominic A. Emerson, Richard L. Amdur, Jason R. Morrissette, Federico E. Mordini, Christian D. Nagy, Michael D. Greenberg, and Gregory D. Trachiotis
Systolic blood pressure control among individuals with type 2 diabetes: A comparative effectiveness analysis of three interventions, Mark A. Espeland, Jeffery Probstfield, Donald Hire, J. B. Redmon, Gregory W. Evans, Mace Coday, Cora E. Lewis, Karen C. Johnson, Sharon Wilmoth, Judy Bahnson, Michael F. Dulin, Jennifer B. Green, William C. Knowler, Abbas Kitabchi, Anne L. Murillo, Kwame Osei, and Shakaib U. Rehman
Desirability of Outcome Ranking (DOOR) and Response Adjusted for Days of Antibiotic Risk (RADAR)., Scott R Evans, Daniel Rubin, Dean Follmann, Gene Pennello, W Charles Huskins, John H Powers, David Schoenfeld, Christy Chuang-Stein, Sara E Cosgrove, Vance G Fowler, Ebbing Lautenbach, and Henry F Chip Chambers
Setting the stage for evidence-based medicine, Steven A. Farmer and William B. Borden
Community Based Approaches for Optimal Asthma Outcomes and Accountable Population Health, Steven A. Farmer, Frank McStay, Meaghan George, Mark McClellan, and Cary Sennett
A Case Study in Payment Reform to Support Optimal Pediatric Asthma Care, Steven A. Farmer, Kavita Patel, Meaghan George, Frank McStay, Rio Hart, and Mark McClellan
Identifying State Resources and Support Programs on E-Government Websites for Persons with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Kathleen M. Fisher, Justin D. Peterson, and Jon D. Albert
Feasibility of Focused Cardiac Ultrasound in Pre-participation Screening, Miriam L. Fishman, Jennifer Shea, Brian G. Choi, and Allen J. Solomon
Cardiovascular Health and Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer: The Women's Health Initiative., Randi E Foraker, Mahmoud Abdel-Rasoul, Lewis H Kuller, Rebecca D Jackson, Linda Van Horn, Lisa W Martin, and + 9 more
Cardiac metabolomics and autopsy in a patient with early diffuse systemic sclerosis presenting with dyspnea: a case report, Tracy M. Frech, Monica P. Revelo, John J. Ryan, Ami A. Shah, Jessica Gordon, Victoria K. Shanmugam, and +11 additional authors
Commentary, Shruti M. Gandhi and Eric S. Nylen
Rescue of the temperature-sensitive, autosomal-recessive mutation R298S in the sodium-bicarbonate cotransporter NBCe1-A characterized by a weakened dimer and abnormal aggregation., Harindarpal S. Gill, Kun-Young Choi, Lakshmi Kammali, and Anastas Popratiloff
Seek and you will find, Ronald Gillilan, Martin F. Sherman, Sameer Ahmed, and Christina Puchalski
Rates and Predictors of Newly Diagnosed HIV infection among Veterans Receiving Routine Once-Per-Lifetime HIV Testing in the Veterans Health Administration., Matthew Bidwell Goetz, Tuyen Hoang, Virginia L. Kan, David Rimland, Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas, and Steven M. Asch
Bioregulatory systems medicine: an innovative approach to integrating the science of molecular networks, inflammation, and systems biology with the patient's autoregulatory capacity?, Alyssa W Goldman, Yvonne Burmeister, Konstantin Cesnulevicius, Martha Herbert, Mary Kane, David Lescheid, Timothy McCaffrey, Myron Schultz, Bernd Seilheimer, Alta Smit, Georges St Laurent, and Brian Berman
Bioregulatory Systems Medicine: An Innovative Approach to Integrating the Science of Molecular Networks, Inflammation and Systems Biology with the Patient’s Autoregulatory Capacity?, Alyssa W. Goldman, Yvonne Burmeister, Konstantin Cesnulevicius, Martha Herbert, Mary Kane, Timothy A. McCaffrey, and et al.
The Impact of Incident Postoperative Delirium on Survival of Elderly Patients After Surgery for Hip Fracture Repair., Allan Gottschalk, Jessica Hubbs, Ami R. Vikani, Lindsey B. Gottschalk, and Frederick E. Sieber
Chocolate-candy consumption and 3-year weight gain among postmenopausal U.S. women., James A. Greenberg, JoAnn E. Manson, Brian Buijsse, Lu Wang, Matthew A. Allison, Marian L. Neuhouser, Lesley Tinker, Molly E. Waring, Carmen R. Isasi, Lisa W. Martin, and Cynthia A. Thomson
Empathy, Sense of Power, and Personality: Do They Change During Pediatric Residency?, Larrie Greenberg, Dewesh Agrawal, Regina Toto, and Benjamin Blatt
Association between Inflammation and Cardiac Geometry in Chronic Kidney Disease: Findings from the CRIC Study., Jayanta Gupta, Elizabeth Dominic, Jeffrey C. Fink, Akinlolu O. Ojo, Ian R. Barrows, Muredach Reilly, Raymond R. Townsend, Marshall Joffe, Sylvia Rosas, Melanie Wolman, Samir Patel, Martin Keane, Harold I. Feldman, John W. Kusek, and Dominic S. Raj
A synopsis of drugs currently in preclinical and early clinical development for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia., Kanika Gupta, Mona Yezdani, Tiffany Sotelo, and Jeanny B. Aragon-Ching
Endothelin-B Receptor Activation in Astrocytes Regulates the Rate of Oligodendrocyte Regeneration during Remyelination., Timothy R. Hammond, Brian McEllin, Paul D Morton, Matthew Raymond, Jeff Dupree, and Vittorio Gallo