Volume 7, Issue 1 (2005)
https://doi.org/10.29046/TMF.007.1Introduction
From the Residency Program Director
Gregory C. Kane MD
From the Editors
Betty Lim, MD; Andrew Rose, MD; and Karl Kwok, MD
Abstract
The spectrum of advanced liver disease in a tertiary care institution
Kuntal M. Thaker, MD; Kuldip S. Banwait, MD; Maya Spodik, MD; Steven K. Herrine, MD; and Victor Navarro, MD
Article
Risk of ischemic stroke associated with low-dose oral contraceptive use: a meta-analysis
Dae Hyun Kim, MD, MPH; Joachim Bleys, MD, MPH; Marlis Gonzalez-Fernandez, MD; Rebecca Gottesman, MD; and Michelle Hudspeth, MD
Case Presentations
An 18-year old man with fever and headache
Amy Baranoski, MD
Presence of concomitant asymptomatic and symptomatic emboli resulting from acute staphylococcus aureus endocarditis
Jason T. Bradley, MD; Nicole M. Orr, MD; and Siva Ramachandran, MD
A 32 year old man with loss of consciousness
Dana Dana Critchell, MD
41 year old women with fevers and shortness of breath
Jonathan Jun, MD
A post-partum woman with dyspnea
Saaron Laighold, MD
34 year old woman with thrombocytopenia and weakness
M. Paula Martinez, MD and Ubaldo E. Martinez, MD
Liver transplant recipient with bilateral leg swelling
Kuntal M. Thaker, MD; Maya Spodik, MD; Kuldip S. Banwait, MD; Steven K. Herrine, MD; and Victor Navarro, MD
55 year old woman with pneumonia
Andra Popescu, MD
A 56-year-old man with vertigo and hypercalcemia
Veronica Rivera and Andrew Rose, MD
A 74 year old woman with left shoulder pain
Jane V. Mayrin, MD
Rupture recurrence after surgical repair of a postinfarction ventricular septal rupture in the reperfusion era
Apurva D. Shah, MD and Alan K. Tannenbaum, MD
A 53-year-old woman with worsening rash and diarrhea
Bryan Kavanaugh, MD
Sarcoid cardiomyopathy
Sivakumar Srinivasan, MD and Emanuel Chryssos, MD
Image in Medicine
Amy Baranoski, MD
Recurrent spontaneous coronary artery dissections
Sivakumar Srinivasan, MD and Rangadham Nagarakanti, MD
Wellens Syndrome
Nicole Farmer, MD and Michael Cohen, MD
A 19 year old girl with lightheadedness and palpitations
Andrew Rose, MD
Varicella pneumonia
Sivakumar Srinivasan, MD; Rangadham Nagarakanti, MD; and Sandhya Nalmas, MD
Cover Art : “Fruit Mystique”, Pastels on Paper by Stanley Hsu, 2005 Stanley Hsu, MD is currently a Third Year Internal Medicine Resident with a hobby in sketches and paintings. “Fruit Mystique” is Dr. Hsu’s first publication debut.
