Background: In‐hospital strokes have distinctive risk factors compared with community‐onset strokes. Analysis of in‐hospital stroke quality of care and outcomes has never been performed at the national level. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) Stroke Database from January 2006 to April 2012, using data […]

Case Presentation: A 59-year-old woman presented with acute worsening of chronic abdominal pain and nausea. Her past medical history included a stable type-B aortic dissection. Over the previous year, she had multiple hospitalizations for postprandial abdominal pain associated with nausea and vomiting. The pain had been increasing in severity and had led to a 10-pound […]

Case Presentation: An 82‐year‐old woman with chronic kidney disease was admitted to the hospital with a one day history of confusion, fever, and acute on chronic renal failure. She was empirically treated with vancomycin, cefepime, and fluids with rapid improvement. By hospital day 2 she was fully oriented and back to her baseline. Blood cultures […]

Case Presentation: A 71-year-old-male with history of HTN, tobacco abuse, and Hepatitis C cirrhosis complicated by hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), was admitted following transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) for HCC. TACE of a 3.2cm left hepatic lobe mass was performed. Access was obtained via the right common femoral artery. No immediate complications were noted, and the patient was […]