American journal of hospital medicine, volume 1, issue 1 (2017 January-March)

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Contents

  • Table of Contents
  • History of the Journal
    • Missouri Hospitalist: Nine Years On / Robert Folzenlogen
  • Review Articles
    • Radiological Modalities in the Diagnosis and Screening of Liver Cirrhosis and its Complications / Arshan Dehbozorgi, Pragati Kumar
    • New Antimicrobials / William Roland
  • Case Reports
    • Post Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Surgery Thyroid Storm: A Near Miss / Amrita Dhillon, Divey Manocha, Arundeep Kahlon, Roberto Izquierdo, Nidhi Bansal
  • Ask a Specialist
    • Ask a Pathologist / Rebecca Ringling, Emily Coberly
  • ID Corner
    • Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis / Christian Rojas
  • Conference Calendar / Harleen Chela

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    Post coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery thyroid storm : a near miss
    (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2017-01) Dhillon, Amrita; Manocha, Divey; Kahlon, Arundeep; Izquierdo, Roberto; Bansal, Nidhi
    Altered mental status (AMS) is a challenging symptom, commonly encountered in the acute inpatient setting. The underlying etiology could be metabolic, infectious, toxic, cardiac, neurological or trauma. We present a challenging case of AMS where an early comprehensive assessment could have potentially prevented a prolonged and complicated hospital course.
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    New antimicrobials
    (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2017-01) Roland, Will
    Since 2010 the new antimicrobials introduced have activity against resistant Gram negative bacteria, long half-lives against Gram positive bacteria, better activity against Clostridium difficile, and safer antifungal properties. Limiting factors to using the new antimicrobials include lack of susceptibility testing, cost and reimbursement issues. This article describes the new antimicrobials an internist will have contact with.
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    Missouri hospitalist : nine years on
    (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2017-01) Folzenlogen, Robert
    Observations in the history of Missouri Hospitalist journal by its creator and editor.
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    Radiological modalities in the diagnosis and screening of liver cirrhosis and its complications
    (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2017-01) Dehbozorgi, Arshan; Kumar, Pragati
    Liver cirrhosis is the pathologic outcome of many chronic liver diseases, in which repeated injury to the liver results in fibrosis, scarring, and ultimately functional impairment.
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    ID corner
    (University of Missouri, Department of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, 2017-01) Rojas Moreno, Christian
    Should an interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) or a tuberculin skin test (TST) be performed in individuals in whom it has been decided that testing for latent tuberculosis is warranted?
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