Resident Publications 2010-11

• Samat AG, Bhargava A, Reddy V.  A Review of Exenatide in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Clinical Medicine Insights: Therapeutics 2010: (2) 715-725.
• Dhelaria RK, Acevedo C, Fadaili A, Crisi G. Microtumor embolization leading to cor pulmonale: an extremely rare complication of ovarian cancer. South Med J. 2010 Jul;103(7):720
• Rothberg MB, Sivalingam SK, Ashraf J, Visintainer P, Joelson J, Kleppel R, Vallurupalli  N,  Schweiger MJ. Patients’ and Cardiologists’ Perceptions of the Benefits of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Stable Coronary Disease”, Annals of Internal Medicine, Sept 2010 153:307-313
• Iarikov DE, Irizarry-Acosta M, Martorell C, Hoffman RP, Skiest DJ. Low Prevalence of Primary HIV Resistance in western Massachusetts. Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (JIAPAC 2010 9: 227-231.)
• Wartak S, Lotfi A, Giuliano G.  The Way To A Man’s Heart Is Through His Liver: A Case of Liver Biopsy.  Journal of Hospital Medicine, August 2010
• Hussain S, Stefan M, Visintainer P, Rothberg M. Why Do Physicians Prescribe Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis to General Medicine Patients?" Southern Medical Journal, November, 2010, 103(11)
• Valania G., Singh M, Slawsky M. Targeting Hypotnatremia and Hemodynamics in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: Is there a role for vasopressin antagonists?” Current Heart Failure Report, November 2010.
• Rothberg MB, Arora A, Hermann J, Kleppel R, St. Marie P, Visintainer, P.  Phantom vibration syndrome among medical staff: a cross sectional survey.  BMJ, Christmas 2010.
• Sivalingam SK, Ashraf J, Vallurupalli N, Friderici J, Cook J, Rothberg MB. Ethnic Difference in the Self-Perception of Obesity and Associated Cardiovascular Effects: A Cross Sectional Analysis. Journal of General Internal Medicine, January 2011.
• Mallidi J, Nadkami GN, Berger RD, Calkins H, Nazarian S: Meta-analysis of Catheter Ablation as an Adjunct to Medical Therapy for Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients with Structural Heart Disease. Heart Rhythm, 2010 Dec 13. [Epub ahead of print].
•  Bhargava A,  Curtis A, Belforti R. Acute Pancreatitis from Gastrostomy Tube Migration in a Nursing Home Resident.  Annals of Long Term Care: Clinical Care and Aging.2011;19(3):25-27.
• Wartak S, Friderici J, Lotfi  A, Verma A, Kleppel R, Naglieri-Prescod D, Rothberg MB. Patients' Knowledge of Risk and Protective Factors for Cardiovascular Disease.  American Journal of Cardiology,  May 2011.
• Gupta E, Stefan M.  Fulminant Clostridium Difficile Colitis Post Total Hip Replacement. American Journal of Case Reports, in press.
• Verma A, Brennan M. “His mother.” J Hosp Med 2011; 6:173-174. (PMID: 21387554).
• Bhargava, A.:  “Medicine: The Art Behind the Science”, SGIM  Forum, April, 2011 Web

 

Book Chapters

• Brennan M, Sekiguchi M, Phillips J. Advanced Illness and Elders at the End of Life, in Case-Based Geriatrics: A Global Approach. Hirth, VA and Wieland D (eds), McGraw Hill, 2011

Research Presentations

 

Presentation at the American Society for Clinical Oncology

• Swayze-Quinn H, Kuperman M, Chapman C, Rosenblum F, Garb J, Bentley B, Cao QJ, Shao R, Arenas RB: Correlation of Stromal Expression of YKL-40 with Recurrence of Colorectal Cancer. 

 

American Heart Association, November 14-17, 2010, Chicago, Il

• Mallidi J, Nadkarni GN, Berger RD, Hugh Calkins H, Nazarian S. Meta Analysis of Catheter Ablation as an Adjunct to Medical Therapy for Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients with Structural Heart Disease

 

ACP Regional – November 20, 2010, Waltham, MA

• Mallidi J, Motwani P, Gandhi P, Winthrop W. A rare cause of coagulopathy: Acquired factor V inihibitor
• Dhelaria R. Sachdeva G.  Twiddlers Syndrome – an Uncommon Twist
• Dhelaria R. Final Roller Coaster Ride
• Bhagavan, A., Haessler, S., Talsania, A.: “Septicimia and the Coastal Region”

 

Massachusetts Medical Society’s 5th Annual Research Poster Symposium-December 2010

• Hernandez J. Growing concerns, larger than fatigue
• Sachdeva G. Nebulised Sodium bicarbonate for Acute Chloramine Toxicity due to household bleach inhalation

 

Society Critical Care Medicine 40th Critical Care Congress, January, 2011

• Steingrub J, Nathanson B, Wells R, Lagu T, Lindenauer P. Association Between Marital Status and Survival Among Patients with Sepsis Treated in the Intensive Care Unit
• Hernandez-Montfort J, Sachdeva G, Arora, A. Sepsis-induced right ventricular dysfunction in refractory septic shock

 

21st Annual Scientific Meeting-Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America April, 2011

• Haessler S, Bhagavan A, Hinchey KT, Kleppel R, Visitainer P. Peer Pressure, Role modeling, and the Social Dynamics of Medical Training: What Unconscious Factors Influence the Hand Hygiene Behavior of Medicine Teams?

 

SGIM Regional - Boston, MA - March, 2011:

• Dhelaria R, McMenimen K, Gupta E, Kleppel R, Friderici J, Rothberg M. Effectiveness of Chantix® (Varenicline) for Smoking Cessation in an Inner City Medicaid Population (oral presentation).
• Alzaman N, Wartak S, Friderici J, Rothberg MB. Effects of Patients’ Awareness of CAD Risk Factors on Health Related Behaviors.

 

SGIM National – Phoenix, AZ - May, 2011:

• Carreno M, Andrews C.  Cough and Fever in a 28 year old IV Drug User.
• Alzaman N, Wartak S, Friderici J, Rothberg MB. Effects of Patients’ Awareness of CAD Risk Factors on Health Related Behaviors.

 

AIAMC – March, 2011:

• Seiler A, Ooi WB, Bhargava A, Hernandez J, Jacob J, Jankowske M, Bhagavan A, Nelson A, Mallidi J, Fitzgerald J, St. Marie P, Kleppel R, Hinchey K, Visintainer P, Stefan M.  Standardized Physician Discharge Encounter for Congestive Heart Failure to Increase Patient’s Readiness for Discharge and Decrease Readmission Rate.

 

AGS – Washington, DC - May, 2011:

• Lee SY, Ang YC, Brennan M. Recurrent SSRI-induced Myoclonus in a Frail Octogenarian
• Dhelaria R, Bhagavan A, Warner B., Bellontonio S. Unilateral twitching & confusion due to paraneoplastic encephalitis
• Lee S, Brennan M.  Recurrent SSRI-induced Myoclonus in a Frail Octogenarian.
• Bhargava A, Andrews C, Belforti R, Brennan M.  A Rare Etiology of Pancreatitis in an Nursing Home Patient