2015
Arp2/3 complex inhibition radically alters lamellipodial actin architecture, suspended cell shape, and the cell spreading process., John H Henson, Mesrob Yeterian, Richard M Weeks, Angela E Medrano, Briana L Brown, Heather Geist MD, Mollyann D Pais, Rudolf Oldenbourg, and Charles B Shuster (Article)
Undifferentiated Carcinoma with Osteoclast-Like Giant Cells of the Pancreatic Tail, Patrick Hickey DO, Ranjit R. Nair MD, Victoria A. Loven MD, Jeffrey Brodsky MD, and Hiral N. Shah MD (Poster)
Low CEA Cystic Pancreatic Tumors, A Tail of Two Cysts, Patrick Hickey DO, Hiral N. Shah MD, and Shashin Shah MD (Poster)
Tu1596 Female Gender in Esophageal Intramucosal Adenocarcinoma Treated With Endoscopic Mucosal Resection: a Case Series, Patrick Hickey DO, Shashin Shah MD, and Hiral N. Shah MD (Article)
Neurofibromatosis Type 1 With Ampullary Somatostatinoma, Small Bowel GISTs, and Extra-Adrenal Composite Pheochromocytoma-Ganglioneuroma, Patrick Hickey DO, Rohit Sharma MD, Shanth A. Goonewardene MD, Shashin Shah MD, and Hiral N. Shah MD (Poster)
Results of Immediate Discharge From Postanesthesia Care Unit to Home After Laparoscopic Appendectomy for Acute Nonperforated Appendicitis., Valery Hrad MD and Steven J Waisbren (Article)
HIV Care Continuum for HIV-Infected Emergency Department Patients in an Inner-City Academic Emergency Department., Yu-Hsiang Hsieh PhD; Gabor D. Kelen MD; Oliver Laeyendecker PhD; Chadd K. Kraus DO, MPH; Thomas C. Quinn MD, MSc; and Richard E. Rothman MD, PhD (Article)
Long term maintenance of myeloid leukemic stem cells cultured with unrelated human mesenchymal stromal cells., Sawa Ito, A John Barrett, Amalia Dutra, Evgenia Pak, Samantha Miner, Keyvan Keyvanfar, Nancy F Hensel, Katayoun Rezvani, Pawel Muranski, Paul Liu, Andre Larochelle, and J Joseph Melenhorst (Article)
Dust Off Huffing: Emerging as a New and Cheap Form of Abuse and a Cause of Different Types of Arrhythmias with Transient Multiorgan Failure, Deepika Jain MD and Raman Dusaj MD (Poster)
Improving Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates Using Exclusive Clinic Visits; a Pilot Program, Ronald R. Julia MD, MS; Michael J. Sither DO, MPH; and Cheryl A. Bloomfield MD (Poster)
Human-armadillo interaction in Ceará, Brazil: Potential for transmission of Mycobacterium leprae., Ligia Kerr, Carl Kendall, Cesar Barros DeSousa MD, Cristiane Cunha Frota, Jove Graham, Laura Rodrigues, Rafael Lima Fernandes, and Maurício Lima Barreto (Article)
Use of observation followed by outpatient stress testing in chest pain patients with prior coronary artery disease history: An evaluation of prognostic utility., Yasser K. Khalil MD, Melvin H. Schwartz MD, Prasant Pandey MD, Maida S Abdul Latif, and Martin E. Matsumura MD (Article)
Topical cannabinoid receptor 1 agonist attenuates the cutaneous inflammatory responses in oxazolone-induced atopic dermatitis model., Hyun Jong Kim, Bongwoo Kim, Bu Man Park, Jeong Eun Jeon, Sin Hee Lee, Shivtaj Mann DO, Sung Ku Ahn, Seung-Phil Hong, and Se Kyoo Jeong (Article)
Acute Superior Vena Cava Syndrome in the Setting of an Intravascular Device, Rachel Kinney DO, Matthew Miles DO, Shannon Davis DO, and Jennifer Rovella DO (Poster)
A case of suppurative peritonitis by a commensal oral organism, Kingella denitrificans, in an adult peritoneal dialysis patient., Nelson Kopyt DO, FASN, FACP; Anshul Kumar; and Vibha Agrawal (Article)
Ataxia in Children, Karoline Korah DO (Presentation)
Effect of Beta-Blockers on Progressive Aortic Dilatation in Patients with Marfan Syndrome, Parasuram Krishnamoorthy MD, Jalaj Garg MD, Neeraj Shah MD, Abhishek Sharma MD, Larry E. Jacobs MD, and Matthew W. Martinez MD (Poster)
The Effect of Adjuvant Trastuzumab on Locoregional Recurrence of Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2-Positive Breast Cancer Treated with Mastectomy., Ryan M Lanning, Monica Morrow, Nadeem Riaz, Heather L McArthur, Chau Dang, Tracy-Ann Moo, Mahmoud El-Tamer, Kate Krause, Chun Siu, Meier Hsu, Zhigang Zhang, Xin Pei, Beryl McCormick, Simon N Powell, and Alice Ho (Article)
Surgical Critical Care/Trauma, Lung-Ching Lee MD and Heather Norman MD (Presentation)
Associations of Circulating Soluble Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Receptors 1 and 2 with Interleukin-6 Levels in an Aging Cohort of Injection Drug Users with or at High Risk for HIV Infection., Sean X Leng, Stewart Dandorf, Huifen Li, Joshua Carlson MD, Jessica Hui, Shruti H Mehta, Damani Piggott, Salequl Islam, Bhavish Manwani, and Gregory D Kirk (Article)
Value-Based Medicine: The Financial Impact of a Pressure Ulcer Prevention Program on a Trauma Population, Jayme D. Lieberman MD; Patrick S. Duffy MD; Kai L. Bortz RN; Rovinder S. Sandhu MD; Michael D. Pasquale MD, FACS, FCCM; and Michael M. Badellino MD (Presentation)
Acute Care Surgical Service Experience with Ruptured Visceral Artery Aneurysms, Jayme D. Lieberman MD, Meghan L. Good MD, Rovinder S. Sandhu MD, and Michael M. Badellino MD (Presentation)
A novel flow cytometry-based tool for determining the efficiency of human cytomegalovirus infection in THP-1 derived macrophages., Huifen Li, Genxiang Mao, Joshua Carlson MD, and Sean X Leng (Article)
Histone acetylation inhibitors promote axon growth in adult dorsal root ganglia neurons., Shen Lin, Kutaiba Nazif DO, Alexander Smith, Peter W Baas, and George M Smith (Article)
Retained Medical Knowledge in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Affected By Simulated Mock Code Blue Session, Rachel Lipner Do; Katie Mastoris DO; Matthew Miles DO; Sarah Park DO; Ryan Rogers DO; Stacey Smith MD, FACP; and Miranda Haslam (Poster)
Prognostic significance of abnormal P wave morphology and PR-segment displacement after ST-elevation myocardial infarction., Marvin Louis Roy Lu, Chinualumogu Nwakile, Vikas Bhalla, Toni De Venecia, Mahek Shah, and Vincent M Figueredo (Article)
Implementation of a Rapid Assessment Unit (Intake Team): Impact on ED Length of Stay., Richard S. MacKenzie MD; David B. Burmeister DO, FACEP; Jennifer A. Brown RN; Melissa Teitsworth RN, BSN; Christopher J. Kita; Megan J. Dambach DO; Shaheen Shamji DO; and Marna R. Greenberg DO, MPH, FACEP (Article)
Mifepristone Utilization in Cushing’s From Large Bilateral Adrenal Adenoma Prior to Surgery, Vasudev Magaji MD, MS; Sarah Park DO; Katie Mastoris DO; Maura Bucciarelli DO; and Scott Beman MD (Article)
Finding a Foal Amongst the Zebras: An Uncommon Presentation of Lemierre’s Syndrome, Saisho Mangla DO, Claudia F. Busse MD, and Liborio LaRussa MD (Poster)
Isolated brachiocephalic artery dissection presenting as acute stroke., Hariharasudan Mani and Sharat Ahluwalia (Article)
Fracture and retrieval of an Achieve circular mapping catheter in and from a pulmonary vein during cryoballoon ablation for atrial fibrillation., Richard C Massaro; James A. Burke MD, PhD; and Gregory Altemose MD (Article)
YouTube as a Source for Patient Education Regarding Percutaneous Mitraclip, Katie Mastoris DO, Jalaj Garg MD, and Nainesh C. Patel MD (Poster)
1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D-Mediated Hypercalcemia in a Patient With Maligancy Without Lymphoma, Katie Mastoris DO; Sarah Park DO; and Vasudev G. Magaji MD, MS (Article)
Anomalous Origins of a Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery: A Series of Three Case Reports Undetected into Adulthood, Katie Mastoris DO, Ataul Qureshi MD, Navin K. Subrayappa MD, Matthew W. Martinez, and James K. Wu (Article)
What to Do with a Broken Heart: EMS Considerations in Pediatric CHD, Richard J. Mazzaccaro MD and Timothy Roach DO (Presentation)
Idiopathic hyperzincemia with associated copper deficiency anemia: a diagnostic dilemma., Hussein Merza, Neha Sood, and Raman Sood (Article)
Digestive organ in the female reproductive tract borrows genes from multiple organ systems to adopt critical functions., Camille Meslin, Melissa S Plakke, Aaron B Deutsch DO, Brandon S Small, Nathan I Morehouse, and Nathan L Clark (Article)
Cannabis-Induced Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis: A Case Report, Matthew J. Miles DO and Andres Zirlinger MD (Poster)
A Descriptive Study of Pulmonary Function Testing and Chest Computed Tomography in Survivors of Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, Matthew Miles DO; Dorothea T. Watson DO; and Rita Pechulis MD, FCCP (Poster)
A Descriptive Study of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Patients with Influenza A (H1N1) Associated Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Brian R. Miller DO; Rita Pechulis MD, FCCP; and Daniel Schwed-Lustgarten MD (Poster)
Descriptive Evaluation of the Use of a Nonactivated Four-Factor Prothrombin Complex Concentrate versus Fresh Frozen Plasma for Warfarin Reversal in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury, Morgan Myers PharmD and Jason Laskosky PharmD, BCPS (Presentation)
A Case Report of an Aggressive Mantle Cell Lymphoma Masquerading as a Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia With Catastrophic Treatment Complications, Ranjit R. Nair MD and Nicholas Lamparella DO (Poster)
Does Risk for Major Adverse Cardiac Events in Patients Undergoing Vasodilator Stress with Adjunctive Exercise Differ from PatientsUndergoing Either Standard Exercise or Vasodilator Stress with Myocardial Perfusion Imaging?, Sanjeev U. Nair MBBS, MD, FACP; Alan W. Ahlberg MA; Deborah M. Katten RN; and Gary V. Heller MD, PHD (Article)
Stevens-Johnson Syndrome After Treatment with Azithromycin, an Uncommon Culprit-Followed by a Brief Review of Diagnostic Criteria., Thomas M. Nappe DO, Stephanie L Goren-Garcia DO, and Jeanne L. Jacoby MD (Article)
Open Ring Sign Diagnostic of Multiple Sclerosis in the Emergency Department., Thomas M. Nappe DO, Matthew Niehaus DO, and Terrence E. Goyke (Article)
Left Flank Pain, Thomas M. Nappe DO and Shawn M. Quinn DO (Article)
Erythrodermic Dermatomyositis, Huyenian Nguyen DO, Joshua M. Levin MD, and Stephen Purcell DO (Poster)
A Case of Three Patients with Severe Hypothermia Rewarmed with ECMO, Matthew Niehaus DO; Rita Pechulis MD, FCCP; and James K. Wu MD (Poster)
Retropharyngeal Air and Pneumomediastinum: A Rare Complication of Influenza A and Asthma in an Adult., Matthew Niehaus DO; Allison Rusgo; Kevin R. Roth DO, FACOEP; and Jeanne L. Jacoby MD (Article)
Making the social determinants of health a routine part of medical care., Nabiha Nuruzzaman, Mark Broadwin MD, Karamo Kourouma, and Douglas P Olson (Article)
Significance of QRS duration in non-ST elevation myocardial infarction., Chinualumogu Nwakile, Bhaskar Purushottam, Vikas Bhalla, Daniel Ukpong, Mahek Shah, Jeong Yun, D Lynn Morris, and Vincent M Figueredo (Article)
Outcomes in Patients with Persistent Dialysis-Dependent Acute Kidney Injury, Aedan Olaso MD; Daniel Tseytlin DO; Hope Kincaid MPH, CPH; and Sharon E. Maynard MD (Poster)
Effect of Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists on Cardiac Structure and Function in Patients With Diastolic Dysfunction and Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review., Ambarish Pandey, Sushil Garg, Susan A Matulevicius, Amil M Shah, Jalaj Garg, Mark H Drazner, Alpesh Amin, Jarett D Berry, Thomas H Marwick, Steven P Marso, James A de Lemos, and Dharam J Kumbhani (Article)
GI Bleed with Pancytopenia - A Rare Case of AML Subtype Acute Panmyelosis with Mylefibrosis (APMF), Dhwani Pandya MD; Philip Dunn DO; and Stacey Smith MD, FACP (Poster)
Vertebral Sarcoidosis Presenting as Herniated Disk Disease Refractory to Epidural Steroid Treatment, Dhwani Pandya MD, Michael Kalil DO, and Stacey Smith MD (Poster)
Fever, Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), Thrombocytopenia & Hemolytic Anemia With Schistocytes – Babesiosis Mimicking TTP Symptomology, Dhwani Pandya MD, Harshal Shah DO, and Timothy Coyle MD (Poster)
Endoscopic Mucosal Resection and Radiofrequency Ablation for Intramucosal Adenocarcinoma in the Background of Barrett’s Esophagus: A Case Series, Bonnie Patek DO, Patrick Hickey DO, Hiral N. Shah MD, and Shashin Shah MD (Poster)
Tu1567 Endoscopic Mucosal Resection and Radiofrequency Ablation for Intramucosal Adenocarcinoma in the Background of Barrett's Esophagus: a Case Series, Bonnie Patek DO, Patrick Hickey DO, Hiral N. Shah MD, and Shashin Shah MD (Article)
A Rare Cutaneous Harbinger of Acute Leukemia: A Case Report, Bonnie Patek DO and Ranjit R. Nair MD (Poster)
Primary Esophageal Adenocarcinoma With Colon Metastases After Esophagectomy, Bonnie Patek DO, Hiral N. Shah MD, and Shashin Shah MD (Poster)
The Benign Mimicker of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor: A Case Series of Gastric Schwannomas, Bonnie Patek DO, Hiral N. Shah MD, and Shashin Shah MD (Poster)
An Unlikely Cause of Possible Hormone-Dependent Abdominal Pain in Young Fertile Females: A Case Series, Bonnie Patek DO, Hiral Shah MD, and Shashin Shah MD (Poster)
Refractory Case of Esophageal Web in a Male Patient with Alcoholic Liver Disease, Bonnie Patek DO, Shashin Shah MD, and Hiral N. Shah MD (Poster)
Risk of Stent Thrombosis in Cardiac Arrest Patients with ST- Elevation Myocardial Infarction Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Therapeutic Hypothermia: International Cardiac Arrest Registry, Nainesh Patel MD, Sanjeev U. Nair MD, Michael R. Mooney MD, John McPherson MD, David B. Seder MD, Paul Hsu MD, Michael Cash MD, Michael Young MD, Barbara Unger RN, and Karl B. Kern MD (Poster)
MiR-205 and MiR-375 microRNA assays to distinguish squamous cell carcinoma from adenocarcinoma in lung cancer biopsies., Santosh Patnaik, Reema Mallick, Eric Kannisto, Rohit Sharma MD, Wiam Bshara, Sai Yendamuri, and Samjot Singh Dhillon (Article)
Sports-related traumatic brain injury., Shawn Phillips and Derek Woessner (Article)
Infectious Disease Case Presentation, Eliana Piedrahita-Llano MD (Presentation)
Use of an all-suture anchor for re-creation of the anterior talofibular ligament: a case report., Jason A Piraino, Elliot L Busch DPM, Laura E Sansosti, Steven J Pettineo, and Corine Creech (Article)
Dynamic digestive physiology of a female reproductive organ in a polyandrous butterfly., Melissa S Plakke, Aaron B Deutsch DO, Camille Meslin, Nathan L Clark, and Nathan I Morehouse (Article)
Fatal Strongyloides Hyperinfection Syndrome in an Immunocompromised Patient., Vaishnavi Pochineni, Darshan Lal MD, Shahed Hasnayen, and Erfidia Restrepo (Article)
When the Secondary Survey is Primary: Knife Blade in the Spine., Lauren M. Porter; Robert D. Barraco MD, MPH; Stephanie Goren-Garcia DO; and Jeanne l. Jacoby MD (Article)
Adult Presentation of Subaortic Stenosis: Another Great Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Mimic., Ataul Qureshi MD, Stephen Awuor MD, and Matthew W. Martinez MD (Article)
Pearls of Wisdom: A Case of Benzonatate Toxicity Resulting in Ventricular Fibrillation, Neiman Ramjattan DO and Raghunandan Muppidi MD (Poster)
Pearls of Wisdom: A Case of Benzonatate Toxicity Resulting in Ventricular Fibrillation, Neiman Ramjattan DO and Muppidi Raghunandan MD (Poster)
Cutaneous Pseudolymphoma Due to Lamotrigine: First Reported Case, Kelly L. Reed DO, Kelly Quinn DO, and Anthony J. Gust MD (Poster)
Continued Confusion After Resolution of Diabetic Ketoacidosis, Ryan Rogers DO, Gretchen A. Perilli MD, and Philip Dunn DO (Poster)
Cola With a Splash of Arsenic: Acute Arsenic Poisoning, Ryan Rogers DO, Jennifer Strow DO, Philip Dunn DO, Robert D. Cannon DO, and Jeffrey P. Reboul DO (Poster)
Patients with Disabilities as Teachers (P-DAT) Training in Medical Education ( PowerPoint), Rebecca Royce-Hickey DO, Sweety Jain MD, and Susan E. Hansen MA (Presentation)
Quantitative activation suppression assay to evaluate human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cell potency., Bahey Salem, Samantha Miner, Nancy F Hensel, Minoo Battiwalla, Keyvan Keyvanfar, David F Stroncek, Adrian P Gee, Patrick J Hanley, Catherine M Bollard, Sawa Ito, and A John Barrett (Article)
Clinical Characteristics and Treatment-Related Biomarkers Associated with Response to High-Dose Interleukin-2 in Metastatic Melanoma and Renal Cell Carcinoma: Retrospective Analysis of an Academic Community Hospital's Experience., Christine Saraceni, Nicole M. Agostino DO, Michael J. Weiss MPH, Kaherine Harris MD, and Suresh G. Nair MD (Article)
Cystic Brain Metastases in NSCLC Harboring the EML4-ALK Translocation after Treatment with Crizotinib., Christine Saraceni; P. Mark Li MD, PhD; Justin F Gainor; Gary A. Stopyra MD; and Eliot L. Friedman MD (Article)
Epithelioid inflammatory myofibroblastic sarcoma: a case report., Daniel E Sarmiento, Jessica A Clevenger, Gregory A Masters, Thomas L Bauer, and Brian T Nam (Article)
Quieting the Catecholamine Storm: A Preoperative Approach to Managing the Pheochromocytoma Patient, Robert Schreiner DO and H Zhang (Poster)
Typical Presentation With Atypical Pathogen: A Case of Primary Hepatic Abscess Secondary to Klebsiella pneuomniae, Harshal Shah DO and Dhwani Pandya MD (Poster)
Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), Thrombocytopenia & Hemolytic Anemia With Schistocytes: Babesiosis Mimicking Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (TTP) Symptomology, Harshal Shah DO, Dhwani Pandya MD, and Timothy Coyle MD (Poster)
Lyme Encephalitis Complicated by Rapidly Progressive Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM), Harshal Shah DO and Hermann C. Schumacher MD (Poster)
Underutilization of Therapeutic Hypothermia After Sudden Cardiac Arrest in United States: A 10 Year Perspective, Neeraj Shah MD, Vratika Agarwal MD, Jalaj Garg MD, Kathan Mehta, Nainesh C. Patel MD, Ronald Freudenberger MD, and Larry E. Jacobs MD (Poster)
Impact of Annual Hospital Volume on Outcomes after Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Implantation in the Contemporary Era., Neeraj Shah MD, Ankit Chothani MD, Vratika Agarwal MD, Abhishek Deshmukh MD, Nileshkumar Patel MD, Jalaj Garg MD, Apurva Badheka MD, Matthew W. Martinez MD, Nauman Islam MD, and Ronald S. Freudenberger MD (Article)
Stent Thrombosis is Not Increased in Cardiac Arrest Patients Undergoing Therapeutic Hypothermia: An Analysis of 15,079 Procedures, Neeraj Shah MD, Jalaj Garg MD, Vratika Agarwal MD, Kathan Mehta, Larry E. Jacobs MD, Nainesh C. Patel MD, and Ronald Freudenberger MD (Poster)
Massive Subgaleal Hematoma and Clinical Suspicion of Child Abuse., Shaheen Shamji DO and Jeanne L. Jacoby MD (Article)
Cardiovascular adverse events associated with smoking-cessation pharmacotherapies., Abhishek Sharma, Saurabh Thakar, Carl J Lavie, Jalaj Garg, Parasuram Krishnamoorthy, Ondrej Sochor, Armin Arbab-Zadeh, and Edgar Lichstein (Article)
Influence of hospital volume on outcomes of percutaneous atrial septal defect and patent foramen ovale closure: a 10-years US perspective., Vikas Singh, Apurva O Badheka, Nileshkumar J Patel, Ankit Chothani, Kathan Mehta, Shilpkumar Arora, Nilay Patel, Abhishek Deshmukh, Neeraj Shah, Ghanshyambhai T Savani, Ankit Rathod, Sohilkumar Manvar, Badal Thakkar, Vinaykumar Panchal, Jay Patel, Igor F Palacios, Charanjit S Rihal, Mauricio G Cohen, William O'Neill, and Eduardo De Marchena (Article)
Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Syndrome Presenting as Prayer (Confounding Picture with Nonepileptic Seizures), Jose M. Soto BS, Kailyn Mann DO, and Nicholas Dalessandro DO (Poster)
Discordance of Receptor Status in Breast Cancer Throughout Tumor Progression and the Associated Prognostic Implications: A Case Report and Review of the Literature, Laura Spranklin DO and Ranjit R. Nair MD (Article)
A Very Rare Etiology of Deep Vein Thrombosis ‘KILT Syndrome’, Arsha Sreedhar MD, Ranjit R. Nair MD, and Mohammad Saqib MD (Poster)
A Case Report of Enteric Duplication Cyst: A Unique Presentation With Multiple Rare Associations, Arsha Sreedhar MD, Ranjit R. Nair MD, and William Scialla DO (Poster)
Attempted Salvage Therapy Through Initiation of Vedolizumab as an Inpatient in Two Patients with Refractory Active Ulcerative Colitis, Matthew Sullivan DO, Paola Blanco MD, Shashin Shah MD, and Hiral N. Shah MD (Poster)
In The Groove: A Case Series of Groove Pancreatitis, Matthew Sullivan DO, Jeffrey Brodsky MD, Shashin Shah MD, and Hiral N. Shah MD (Poster)
A Not So Groovy Masquerader: A Case Report of Groove Pancreatitis, Matthew Sullivan DO, Lisa Yoo DO, Nancy Khov MD, Andrew Tinsley MD, and John Levenick MD (Poster)
Development of a Radiographic Union Score for Determining Osteotomy Union Rates in Long Bones of the Foot., N Jake Summers, Jill Ashcraft, Homan Badri, John Mostafa, Brandon Barrett, Michael Sganga, Jeremy J Cook, Philip Basile, and Emily A Cook (Article)