Posted on January 16th, 2025 by Academic Programs
A middle-aged Hispanic woman presented for evaluation of an asymptomatic epiretinal membrane in the left eye. She had an ocular history of amblyopia in the left eye, a medical history significant for chronic neuropathy, ataxia, and myelopathy of unknown etiology,…
Posted on January 16th, 2025 by Academic Programs
This case report discusses use of bedside manual repositioning of an anteriorly dislocated crystalline lens in a patient with Marfan syndrome.
Posted on January 16th, 2025 by Academic Programs
This case report discusses a diagnosis of white without pressure in the peripheral retina of a patient with high myopia.
Posted on January 16th, 2025 by Academic Programs
This case report describes a woman in her 40s who presented for evaluation of pruritic skin lesions on her chest and all 4 extremities that had developed over several days.
Posted on January 16th, 2025 by Academic Programs
Importance Drug-coated balloon (DCB) angioplasty has emerged as an alternative to drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with coronary in-stent restenosis (ISR) as well as de novo coronary artery disease. Observations DCBs are balloons coated with antiproliferative…
Posted on January 15th, 2025 by Academic Programs
This JAMA Insights discusses the evaluation and treatment of chronic kidney disease in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Posted on January 15th, 2025 by Academic Programs
A 14-year old girl presents with sudden painless vision decline in the left eye for 5 days and reports constant fatigue, occasional dizziness, mild pain in the lower limbs, and intermittent claudication over the past 12 months with no history…
Posted on January 15th, 2025 by Academic Programs
Importance Molecular techniques, including next-generation sequencing, genomic copy number profiling, fusion transcript detection, and genomic DNA methylation arrays, are now indispensable tools for the workup of central nervous system (CNS) tumors. Yet there remains a great deal of heterogeneity in using…
Posted on November 15th, 2024 by Academic Programs
This article describes historical and political reasons for and devastating consequences of US opioid prescribing policy since the 1990s, which has restricted opioid prescribing for pain less than for treating opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment. This article considers merits and…
Posted on November 15th, 2024 by Academic Programs
Structural determinants of health frameworks must express anti-racism to be effective, but racial and ethnic inequities are widely documented, even in harm reduction programs that focus on person-centered interventions. Harm reduction strategies should express social justice and health equity, resist…