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Farrukh Awan, Swaytha Ganesh
Intra-Pulmonary Shunt: An Uncommon Source of Paradoxical Emboli Kathi Bickel, Raquel Buranosky
Robert Evans, Larry Gerber
David Harris, Adam Gordon
Not All Drug Overdoses are Narcotic or Intentional David Harris, Nizar Younas, Adam Gordon
“D.A.R.T.ing” to Plasma Exchange for Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Beth Kaplan, Carla Spagnoletti
Susan Kohli, Thomas Painter
Trish Lamont, Rosanne Granieri
Alyssa Majesko, Rosanne Granieri
Special Considerations for Endocarditis in Cirrhosis Wissam Mansour, Fadi Francis
Pancreatic
Khaled Nashar

New Pill, New Problem: Tegaserod Induced Ischemic Colitis Sarwar Orakzai, Rosanne Granieri
When Platelets Take An Unusual Hit: Tirofiban Induced Thrombocytopenia
Malik Rahim, Harish Jasti
More Than Skin Deep: A Case of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome Amit Raina, Cristos Colovas, Asher Tulsky
The Lady Who Lost Her Senses- A Case of Pure Sensory Stroke Jenn Reeder, Victor Vogel
How Low Can You Go? Risk Reduction in BRCA-1 Carriers
Stacey Shaffer, Rosemarie Conigliaro
When Physical Therapy Makes Things Worse: A Case of Hereditary Neuropathy Secondary to Pressure Palsy
Zishan Siddiqui, Megan Cunnane
Eyes Wide Open: An Unusual Case of Altered Mental Status
Ish Singla, Ruth Preisner
Epilepsia Partialis Continue: A Rare and Early Presentation of Diabetes Ish Singla, Rosanne Granieri
Hypoglycemic Crisis From Glyburide-Ciprofloxacin Interaction: An Uncommon Reaction From Two Common Medications Juliette Slomka, Dennis Meisner
An Aggressive Exchange for Thrombotic Thrombcytopenic Purpura Juliette Slomka, Philip Lamberty
Toxic Shock Syndrome: When Group A Strep Wreaks Havoc
Fadeke Akanbi, Eric Anish

Fadeke Akanbi, Eric Anish
A Swollen Scrotum And Yellow Eyes: Can Occam's Razor Be Applied Rohit Aggarwal, Heena Sheth
Identification and Prevention of Delirium on General Medicine Floors Amit Raina, Heena Sheth
Failure of Heparin Dosing Guidelines in Obese Patients Neil Saxena, Bruce Ling, Gary Fischer
Quality of Diabetes Care Provided by Faculty Versus Residents at an Raza Orakzai
Elevated Triglycerides Indicates a Greater Burden of Inflammation in Sarwar Orakzai
May Afford Adjunctive Value to Framingham Risk
David Brokl, Ivan Rosas

David Brokl, Erin Morse
Hammad Hussain, Mohammad Ali Javed, Amanda Cooper
Lessons in Transplant Medicine- Sirolimus Induced Interstitial Pneumonitis Minisha Kochar, Angel Lopez-Candales
A Giant Cause of Congestive Heart Failure: Giant Cell Myocarditis Barbara Merovich, Fred Rubin
Charcot, Marie and Tooth…. The Wrong Triad Shadi Mouard, Michael Elnicki
A Case Of Ischemic Colitis In A Young Man
Khaled Nashar, Ron Stiller, Eric Anish
Wine Maketh Merry: But the Gap Answereth All Things. Saira Nisar, Victor Okwiya
Sarwar Orakzai, Kevin Kraemer
Malik Rahim, Harish Jasti
Shivers and Tremors: A Case of Serotonin Syndrome Zishan Siddiqui, Minisha Kochar, Megan Cunnane

Raza Orakzai, Peggy Hasley
Treating Hyponatremia: Are Current Guidelines Really Safe? More Frank Y. Lin, Gary Tabas
Acute Appendicitis With An Atypical Presentation And Equivocal Ct Scan
Farrukh Awan, Kenneth Foon
Complications and Therapy in a Patient Exposed to Rodent Poison
(Super-Warfarin)
Janna Baker, Rosanne Granieri

A Grave Situation
David Brokl, Suraj Kurup
Subacute
Bacterial
Endocarditis Presenting with Predominant
Arthralgias
Kathleen Coyle, Ken Smith

A Case of Diabetic Ketoacidosis, Acute Pancreatitis and
Hyperlipidemia
Trevor Feinstein, Heena Sheth
University of Pittsburgh Housestaff Views on Pre-Printed Order
Sandy Fernando, Sanjay Vasudevan, Gary Tabas

Medical and Ethical Issues in Considering Valve Replacement in an
IV Drug Using Patient with Infectious Endocarditis
Sara Greenhill, Matt Muldoon

Poorly Controlled Hypertension: When Medical Management Just
Isn’t Enough
Vishal Gujral, Angel Lopez-Candales

Lead aVR- The Not So Ignored Lead Anymore?
Vishal Gujral, Malik Rahim, Nader Chadda, Georgios Papachristou, Scott
Cooper

Acute Pancreatitis in a 19-Year Old Male- Beyond Alcohol and
Gallstones
Akshay Gupta, Melissa McNeil

An Unusual Cause of Purple Toes
Kara Hawkins, A. Obaid Shakil

My Liver is Actin’ Up
Scott Herrle, Rosanne Granieri

Dry as a Bone, Red as a Beet, Mad as a Hatter: A Case of
Anticholinergic Toxicity Due to Jimsonweed
Samer Homsi, Eric Anish

Unilateral Leg Swelling: Where’s the Clot?
Beth Kaplan, Erika Hoffman

Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis: An IV Origin in GI Disguise
Minisha Kochar, Jennifer Lee

Acute Chest Pain and ST-Segment Elevation: When to say NO (Nitric
Sanjeev Kumar, Mehedi Rehmetullah, George Gleeson

Levofloxacin Causing Achilles Tendon Rupture
Sangeev Kumar, Mehedi Rehmetullah, Michael Elnicki

Pneumocephalus or Air Head: “Pneuma”-“Kephale”
Patricia Lamont, Susan Hunt

A Twist on Torsade
Patricia Lamont, Peter Bulova

All That Embolizes to the Coronaries Is Not Plaque
John Lee, Harish Jasti

The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Pericardial Cyst As An Uncommon But
Treatable Cause Of Recurrent
Chest Pain
Fenny Lin, Janine Frank

More Than Skin Deep: A Case of Dermatomyositis and Breast
Fenny Lin, Paul Phrampus

Shoulder Pain in a College Student: A Case of Sorority Hazing
James Lynch, Jeffrey Teuteberg

Dynamic Mitral Regurgitation: An Atypical Presentation of Recurrent
Acute Dyspnea
Wissam Mansour, Steven Reis, Suresh Mulukutla
Myocardial
Infarction or Aortic Dissection?
Stasa Milojkovic, Eric Anish, Dianne Zalenski

Flapping Toilet Seats And Flapping Hands: An Interesting Cause Of
Mental Status Changes
Khaled Nashar, Fred Rubin
Found
Khaled Nashar, Eric Anish, Michael Wald
A Tale of Two Clots
Irem Nasir, Peggy Hasley

Itchy, Watery Eyes: A Potentially Ominous Symptom
Dilip Nataraj, Rosanne Granieri

SOB + DOE ≠ CHF
Yue-Harn Ng, Harish Jasti

Not Your Usual Pain in the Back
Raza Orakzai, Sarwar Orakzai, Malik Rahim, Suraj Kurup

Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia and Immune Thrombocytopenic
Purpura: A Case of Evan’s Syndrome
Raza Orakszi, Sarwar Orakzai, Malik Rahim, Suraj Kurup

A Noninfectious Etiology for Odynophagia

Sarwar Orakzai, Raza Orakzai, Malik Rahim, Suraj Kurup

Cerebrovascular Thrombosis in a 33 Year Old Female with Systemic
Lupus Erythematosis: A Case of Sneddon’s Syndrome
Sarwar Orakzai, Raza Orakszi, Malik Rahim, Suraj Kurup

Where’s the Problem? The abdomen or the Chest? Lessons from a
Case of Hepatic Hydrothorax
Malik Rahim, Vishal Gujral, Raza Orakzai, Sarwar Orakzai, Eric Campbell

Why Bother? It’s Just a Rash! Dermatomyositis in a 56 Year Old
Vijay Ramanath, William Katz

Diagnosing Pulmonary Embolism (PE): Looking Beyond the Spiral
CTA and Ventilation- Perfusion Scanning To Include Exercise Stress
Echocardiography
Jennifer Reeder, Melissa McNeil

A SOB Story
Mehedi Rehmetullah, Sangeev Kumar, George Gleeson

Pink Blood Causes Headache
Mehedi Rehmetullah, Sanjeev Kumar, Michael Elnicki

Myxoma Presenting as Flash Pulmonary Edema
Jodi Reider, Jigme Sethi

A Thoracic Cause of the Acute Abdomen
Aimee Sanders, Hollis Day

Longus Colli Tendinitis: A Real Pain in the Neck
Neil Saxena, Rosanne Granieri

Neurofibromatosis: More Than Just Some Spots
Neil Saxena, Fred Crock, Rosanne Granieri

Polymyositis Complicated by Congestive Heart Failure
Hemal Shah, Rosanne Granieri

A case of hyperthyroid-induced cardiomyopathy: now you see it,
now you don’t.
Stacey Shaffer, Robert Brooks

The Chicken of the Egg: Muscle Weakness Preceded by a Diagnosis
of Interstitial Lung Disease and Steroid Therapy
Hussein Tawbi, Yue-Harn Ng, Rosanne Granieri
A Sore Throat Gone Awry
Sing Tsai, Irina Chibisov, Eric Anish

From IUD to DKA: Acronyms and Actinomyces
Sanjay Vasudevan, Robert Cook

Mysterious Black Fingers in an Elderly Woman
Hashem Younes, Jigme Sethi
When
β2 Agonists are Contraindicated in an Asthmatic Attack
Hashem Younes, Kenneth Smith

Not All Hemoptysis is TB

Jennifer Haddam, David McAdmas

A Case of Endopthalmitis from MRSA septicemia: The clue is in the
eye of the beholder.

SANJIV KUMAR, Eric Anish
BACTEREMIA IN A NURSING HOME RESIDENT: LOOK BEYOND THE SANJIV KUMAR, Asher Tulsky
RESIDENTS EVALUATION OF THE NIGHT FLOAT SYSTEM AT UPMC- SHADYSIDE
HAITHAM HREYBE, Asher Tulsky
YUE-HARN NG, Robert Brooks
OGUGUA OSI-OGBU, Rosanne Granieri
DILIP NATARAJ, Rosanne Granieri
A DIAGNOSIS AT BOTH ENDS: A CASE OF CELIAC DISEASE AND TREVOR FEINSTEIN, Thuy Bui
EXTRA ADRENAL PARAGANGLIOMA: SYMPTOMS IT MAY CAUSE ANDREW GITHAIGA, Paul Han
A NOT-SO BENIGN CASE OF PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA. CARLA SPAGNOLETTI, Melissa McNeil
CARLA SPAGNOLETTI, Melissa McNeil
BE SENSITIVE TO SENSITIVITY: ASPIRIN-INDUCED ASTHMA GAURI AGARWAL, Rosanne Granieri
THE CRIMSON LUNG: A CASE OF WEGENER'S GRANULOMATOSIS ANNA CZAJKA-GIERMASZ, Wishwa Kapoor
RECURRENT SYNCOPE AS A RARE SYMPTOM OF SYSTEMIC KHALED NASHAR, Neil Busis
AN UNEXECTED CAUSE OF TREMOR AND MYOCLONUS KATHLEEN COYLE, Ken Smith
GAUTAM RAMANI, Rosanne Granieri
HASHEM YOUNES, Ronald Parker
A CASE OF AMNESIA RESPONSIVE TO PHLEBOTOMY JORGE M. MERCADO, Asher Tulsky
JORGE M. MERCADO, Asher Tulsky
PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA
ARSHAD MUSTAFA, Paul Han
NOT JUST ANOTHER MIGRAINE: THE IMPORTANCE OF LOOKING FOR RED FLAGS
NATASA MILOJKOVIC,
NATASA MILOJKOVIC,
NEPHROTIC RANGE PROTEINURIA SECONDARY TO SAMER HOMSI, Jaye Heffner
DIARRHEA GIVES ME A HEADACHE: SAGITTAL VENOUS THROMBOSIS AS A COMPLICATION OF AN EXACERBATION OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE MIKKY KAR, BAIYAN XIE, Adam Sohnen
IS IT ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME OR ACUTE AORTIC DISSECTION
MARCUS LIEN, Vijay Bahl
JAVID KAMALI, Michael Elnicki
FOR PULMONARY EMBOLISM: IS D-DIMER REALLY A SNOUT?
JAVID KAMALI, George Arnold
RECURRENT ABDOMINAL PAIN: CHECK THE MEDICATION LIST
PRADEEP NAIR, Brian Berk
A RESTAURANT, AN ONION, A LIVER: A CASE OF FULMINANT HEPATIC FAILURE FROM HEPATITIS A
YUN YOU LI, Rosanne Granieri
HYPERTENSION IN PATIENTS WITH UNILATERAL ATROPHIC KIDNEY YUN YOU LI, Jaye Heffner
FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN ASSOCIATED WITH LABILE HYPERTENSION
MUHANNAD KANBOUR, Rosanne Granieri
I THOUGHT IT WAS ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS! FOOLED BY A LIVER ABSCESS
MUHANNAD KANBOUR, Mike Elnicki

JOHN LEE, Harish Jasti
MORE THAN SKIN DEEP:- HYPERCALCEMIA ASSOCIATED WITH MALIGNANT MELANOMA
JOHN LEE, Harish Jasti
PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE: A SEVERE LAB ABNORMALITY WITH CAUTIOUS BABAK BARMAR, Gary Tabas

NAEEM LATIF, Gary Tabas
A MIDDLE AGE WOMAN WITH WORSENING SHORTNESS OF BREATH
NAEEM LATIF, Gary Tabas
RECURRENT PARAPNEUMONIC PLEURAL EFFUSIONS AND

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