Background: Patients with diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) experience large burdens of morbidity, mortality, and hospital costs. Over a third of patients with diabetes will develop DFUs in their lifetime; and almost half of these patients subsequently develop diabetic foot infections (DFIs). Although it has been reported that obese patients with diabetes do not have higher [...]

Background: Controversy still exists regarding the use of angiotensin axis blockade (AAB) with angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI) and angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) drugs preoperatively. Multiple studies suggest the AAB results in acute kidney injury (AKI) (1,2), while other studies do not (3,4 ). Some studies suggest that the AKI associated with AAB is due [...]

Case Presentation: A 50 year-old African American female with medical history of morbid obesity (BMI 40.8), hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes mellitus, obstructive sleep apnea, atrial fibrillation, right MCA infarct one year prior to admission, and right renal infarct one month prior to admission presented with two days of sharp left-sided abdominal pain associated with non-bloody and [...]