Background: The Center for Health Evaluations, Education, Research and Engagement (CHEVERE) study is a research program at Lincoln Hospital designed to explore the cultural, social and psychological factors that either facilitate or serve as barriers to behavioral change in the South Bronx community. The focus of our Phase II, non-blinded, prospective study is to develop [...]

Background: The Obesity Paradox postulates that obesity is a protective factor against mortality in certain chronic conditions such as chronic kidney disease (CKD) and congestive heart failure. Although this paradox is established in CKD, few studies have analyzed the paradox in acute kidney injury (AKI). There are both short and long term ramifications to AKI [...]

Case Presentation: An 87 year old male with a history HFrEF 35%, BPH, Afib, seizure disorder. He had a recent fall and presented with A-fib with RVR. His creatinine at that time was found to be 5.6 (no baseline creatinine at that time). Renal and bladder ultrasound showed large intravesical mass consistent with bladder mass [...]