American Journal of Medicine

Article	Citations
Medical Jeopardy Quiz: Medicinal Plants	508
Utility of a Diagnostic Time-Out to Evaluate an Atypical Pneumonia	122
In General, We Are Defined More by Our Response to Defeat, Than the Defeat Itself	101
Added Prognostic Value of Plaque Burden to Computed Tomography Angiography and Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in Patients with Diabetes	85
Prosthetic Joint Infections of the Hip and Knee Among the Elderly: A Retrospective Study	82
Severe Small Heart Syndrome in a Patient with Anorexia Nervosa	77
Making the Heart Grow Stronger: Reversal of Dilated Cardiomyopathy in an Elderly Patient	71
The Sixth Row on the Left: A Reflection on Medicine Grand Rounds	71
The Reply	70
Avoid Advanced Dementia with an Advance Directive for Stopping Eating and Drinking	63
Popeye Deformity: A Red Flag for Wild-Type Transthyretin Amyloidosis	52
A ‘Rule of Thumb’ Aids Evaluation of Severe Hypercholesterolemia to Recognize Familial Hypercholesterolemia	49
A Bleeding GIST Managed with Octreotide	49
In Plain Sight: An Inconspicuous Case of a Giant Cell Tumor	48
Evoking Dante Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic	47
Troubling Tenosynovitis: When a Serious Sign Persists	47
Aspergillus Brain Abscess in a Patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus	46
An Infrequently Witnessed Case of Colitis	45
Infective Endocarditis: An Update	42
Initiation of Anti-Hypertensive Drugs and Outcomes in Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction	42
The Grade Debate: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Perspectives on Clerkship Assessment Across the UME to GME Continuum	41
Teaching Leadership…More than Just White Men	41
Clinical Efficacy of Tixagevimab/Cilgavimab Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in Immunocompromised Patients Treated During Omicron Sublineages Diffusion. Real-Life Experience from ASST Lecco	41
Narrative Competency: The Healing Potential of Storytelling	41
Subcutaneous B-Cell Lymphoproliferative Disorder Mimicking Lipodystrophy	41

Erratum to ‘Ten Traits of Great Physicians! And Tips to Help You Improve’ [The American Journal of Medicine (2023) Volume 136, Issue 4, Pages 355-359]	40
Long-Term Cardiac Monitoring After Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source: Search Longer, Look Harder	39
Mycoplasma Pneumoniae-Associated Reactive Infectious Mucocutaneous Eruption Sine Rash	39
An Unusual Case of Nocardia Breast Abscess	38
Trichuris trichiura: A Moving Source of Anemia	38
Turn Healthcare Workers Loose with Outpatient Telemedicine—Let Them Decide Its Fate; No Top-Down Decisions on What It Can and Cannot Do	37
The Reply	36
Facial Swelling and Pancytopenia: First Features and Clues to the Etiology of Acute Kidney Injury.	35
Practice for Real Life: Diversifying Cases in Educational Conferences	35
Structural Cardiac Abnormalities in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation/Flutter and Myocardial Injury	34
Running on Empty: A Source for Multiple Nonspecific Symptoms	34
Fulminating Lymphocytic Myocarditis and Its Mimics	34
Management of Hospitalized Kidney Transplant Recipients for Hospitalists and Internists	33
Table of Contents	33
Suggestions for Remaining Calm and Balanced During High Stress Times	32
Adverse Events After Initiating Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor/Angiotensin II Receptor Blocker Therapy in Individuals with Heart Failure and Multimorbidity	31
Is it Time to Set a 25% Decrease in eGFR as Criteria for Community-Acquired Acute Kidney Injury in Primary Care Clinics?	31
Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw: A Cross-Sectional Study on the Prevalence of Cutaneous Manifestations and the Primary Care Physician's Role in its Early Diagnosis	31
The Unique Fusion: Systemic Sclerosis and Ankylosing Spondylitis Overlap	30
Factors Associated With Long COVID: Insights From Two Nationwide Surveys	29
Looking Beyond LinkedIn: The Case for Excellence and Academic Rigor in Quality and Safety Programs	29
Evolving Trends in US Mortality from Opioid Overdose: Heroin and Beyond	29
Treatment of Drug-Induced Dermatitis and Itching with Diclofenac Gel	28
Insight Regarding Solving the Current Physician Shortage	28
Caring for Hospitalized Adults with Methamphetamine Use Disorder: A Proposed Clinical Roadmap	27
Combined Sodium-Glucose-Transporters Inhibitors and Glucagon-Like-Peptide Receptor Agonist Compared With Monotherapy Improves Long-Term Survival: A Real-World Registry	26
Primary Medical Care Integrated with Healthy Eating and Healthy Moving is Essential to Reduce Chronic Kidney Disease Progression	26
Bacteremia, Liver Injury, and Pneumonitis: Strongyloides Unleashed by a Supplement	25
Idiopathic Axillary Web Syndrome	25
Lumbar Disc Herniation: Diagnosis and Management	24
A Rare Case of Stiff Person Syndrome: From Spasms to Bedbound	24
Parasitic Infestation Presenting as Advanced Infiltrating Tumor Mimicking Adrenal Cancer	24
Population Decline in COPD Admissions During the COVID-19 Pandemic Associated with Lower Burden of Community Respiratory Viral Infections	24
Acute Abdominal Pain Caused by Internal Oblique Muscle Rupture	24
Hyperfibrinolysis: An Uncommon Cause of Bleeding in Cirrhosis	23
Silent Brain Infarction – Time for Changing the Paradigm?	22
Turning Positive: Normal Aging and The Review of Systems	22
The Reply	22
Appropriately Targeting Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation to Maximize Benefits in Older Adults	22
Misconceptions and Facts about Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction	22
The Prognosis of Myocardial Calcification and Some Other Issues	22
The Reply	22
Heads-Up! A Caregiver's Perspective on Lewy Body Dementia	22
Nonketotic Hyperglycemic Hemichorea	22
Addressing COVID Vaccine Hesitancy and Its Impact on Road Crashes	21
Practice-Changing Updates in Perioperative Medicine Literature 2020-2021: A Systematic Review	21
Effect of Dexamethasone on Myocardial Injury After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Substudy of the Randomized Clinical DEX-2-TKA Trial	21
Is Retirement Meant for You?	20
Gnosticism, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Medicine	20
The Reply	20

Table of Contents	20
Two Months, Eight Chinese Physicians Suffered Sudden Death	20
Unmasking a Vulnerable Patient Care Process: A Qualitative Study Describing the Current State of Resident Continuity Clinic in a Nationwide Cohort of Internal Medicine Residency Programs	19
Navigating the Shadows: COVID-19′s Lingering Threat – Pulmonary Fibrosis	19
Back to Basics: Parathyroid Adenoma Disguising as ‘CRAB’	19
Adrenal Insufficiency Revealing a Bilateral Adrenal Hemorrhage-Adrenal Infarction Related to Antiphospholipid Syndrome	19
Delayed Onset Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia Presenting as Fever of Unknown Origin	18
An Unusually Rapid-Onset Portal Hypertension	18
Nutrition on the United States Medical Licensing Step 1 Exam: A “Low-Yield” Topic?	18
Transfiguration of Academic Departments of Medicine	18
The Reply	18
Impact of Unhealthy Lifestyles on Patients with Atrial Fibrillation at Low Risk of Stroke: A Nationwide Cohort Study	18
Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Obese Patients with Venous Thromboembolism: Results of an Expert Consensus Panel	18
Syndrome of Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Diseases: A Comprehensive Overview of Open Artery Ischemia	17
Perioperative Antiplatelet Strategy in Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery Within One Year After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention	17
Icosapent Ethyl for Primary Versus Secondary Prevention of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Hypertriglyceridemia: Value for Money Analysis	17
Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders Mimicking Wernicke Encephalopathy	17
The Ultrasound Hepato-Jugular Reflux: Measuring the Hepato-Jugular Reflux with Ultrasound with Comparison to Invasive Right Heart Catheterization	16
Paxlovid: A Regulatory Gamble	16
The Potential Influence of Firearm Violence on Physical Inactivity in the United States	16
Massive Vulvar Edema: A Sign of Nephrotic Syndrome	16
Medical Aphorisms Redux	16
Adult Scaphoid Abdomen	16
Septic Arthritis of the Costovertebral Joint Mimicking Shingles	16
Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with Nonrheumatic Streptococcal Pharyngitis-Associated Myocarditis	16
Myocardial Perfusion and Viability Imaging in Coronary Artery Disease: Clinical Value in Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Therapeutic Guidance	15
Hospital-Acquired Anemia in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome: Epidemiology and Potential Impact on Long-Term Outcome	15
Environmental Neurotoxins and a Neurodegenerative Outbreak: Diagnosis Requires Specific Sampling Knowledge	15
Call for a New Medical Fellowship	15
Limited English Proficiency in Older Adults Referred to the Cardiovascular Team	15
Risk vs Benefits of Thiazides in Clinical Use: Need for a Holistic Approach	15
Timeless Caves, Sacred Spaces, Cardiology Clinics	15
Association of Sedentary Lifestyle with Risk of Acute and Post-Acute COVID-19 Sequelae: A Retrospective Cohort Study	15
A Case of Bone-Eroding Mycobacterium avium Complex Infection Secondary to Prolonged Infliximab Use	15
Shoring Up Vaccine Efficacy	15
The Clinical Paradox	14
Blood Pressure/Heart Rate-Derived Ratios as Indices of Health and Cardiovascular Pathology	14
In the Pursuit of Immortality, Who is Sitting at the Table?	14
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Ankle Arthritis and Subsequent Immune-Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome	14
Renal Artery Denervation for the Management of Hypertension: Current Trends and Future Direction	14
Lifestyle Approach and Medical Therapy of Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease	14
The Reply	14
Emphysematous Cystitis Detected by Point-of-Care Ultrasound	14
Terry's Nails Due to Uncontrolled Diabetes Mellitus	13
Using SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Testing in COVID-19 Research	13
When Crouching Gait Reveals Crohn's Disease	13
Table of Contents	13
Face Off: 3D-Printed Masks as a Cost-Effective and Reusable Alternative to N95 Respirators: A Feasibility Study	13
Oral Rehydration Solution: A Landmark Discovery in Medicine and the Legacy of Dr. Dilip Mahalanabis	13
Naloxone Over the Counter: Increasing Opportunities and Challenges for Health Providers	13
Older Age as a Predictive Risk Factor for Acute Mountain Sickness	13
A Threat to Military Combat Power: Dietary Supplements	13
Immunizations, Autism, and Statistical Analysis	12
On Hoofs and Zebras – Struma Ovarii	12
Understanding Antiarrhythmic Drug Efficacy for the Clinical Practitioner: There Is More than Meets the Eye	12
Presentation, Treatment, and Outcomes of Older Adults Hospitalized for Acute Myocardial Infarction According to Cognitive Status: The SILVER-AMI Study	12
When to Suspect and How to Approach a Diagnosis of Amyloidosis	12
A Hidden Challenge: Tongue Abscess Inducing Trismus in an Older Woman	12
Critical Care Exposure and Preparedness Among Internal Medicine Residents: Results from the American College of Physicians In-Training Exam Survey	12
Multicancer Early detection Panels (MCEDs) in the Primary Care Setting	12
Recent Thoughts Concerning Atrial Fibrillation	12
It's not always Molluscum: A case of disseminated Cryptococcosis	12
Coagulative Biomarkers Differently Predict Clinical Outcomes in Invasive Infections Caused by Neisseria Meningitidis and Streptococcus Pneumoniae	12
Examining Well-Being and Cognitive Function in People with Long COVID and ME/CFS, and Age-Matched Healthy Controls: A Case-Case-Control Study	12
Evaluation and Management Strategies for GI Involvement with Amyloidosis	12
Predicting Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias in Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation	12
Improvement in Endothelial Function in Men Taking Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Inhibitors for Erectile Dysfunction	12
Patient-Tailored Interventions to Improve Specialty Medication Adherence: Results from a Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial	12
Intravascular Large B Cell Lymphoma as a Cause of Multifocal Cryptogenic Stroke	12
The PAX LC Trial: A Decentralized, Phase 2, Randomized, Double-Blind Study of Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir Compared with Placebo/Ritonavir for Long COVID	12
Do We Need Fasting Prior to Coronary Angiography? The CORO-NF Randomized Pragmatic Study	11
A Treacherous Twist on ECG	11
Medical Jeopardy Quiz: Infections and Cancer	11
Corrigendum to ‘Effect of Inpatient Medication-Assisted Therapy on Against-Medical-Advice Discharge and Readmission Rates’ (2020) 1343-1349	11
A Cat-and-Mouse Game? Multiple Abscesses Due to Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia	11
Remembering the White Rose: How a Group of Medical Students Took on Hitler	11
Terminological Insights in Ludwig Angina: Evaluating Pseudo Tongue, Double Tongue, and Ludwig Sign	11
A Possible Reversible Cause of Cognitive Impairment: Undiagnosed Cirrhosis and Potential Hepatic Encephalopathy in Patients with Dementia	11
The Reply	11
Regarding the Surgical Management of Vertebral Compression Fractures	11

Behind the Mirror	11
Lying to Patients – Is It Ever Ethical?	10
Bridging the Gap in Competency Assessment During Transition from Undergraduate Medical Education to Graduate Medical Education: A Perspective Piece	10
Ghost of Summer, 1988	10
Voices for Social Justice and Against Racism: An AAIM Perspective	10
New Clinical and Public Health Challenges in Vaccinations in US Adults	10
Which Was the Real Guilty Party: Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus pseudintermedius, Pasteurella multocida or All of Them?	10
The Importance of Early Recognition of KSHV-Mediated Syndromes: A Case Report	10
Table of Contents	10
Variations on a Theme	10
Elevated International Normalized Ratio and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients Treated with Direct Oral Anticoagulants	10
Human Immortality: The Quest for Permanence	10
Selective Screening for Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis: An Appraisal of the 2024 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines Position	10
Characteristics and Diagnostic Challenge of Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody Positive Infective Endocarditis	10
Hemoglobin Monitoring in Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Are We Monitoring Blood Counts Too Frequently?	10
The Reply	10
Applying the ABCs of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention to the 2023 AHA/ACC Multisociety Chronic Coronary Disease Guidelines	10
Psoas Abscess as a Complication of a Perinephric Abscess	10
Wooden Toothpick and Pancreatitis	10
Recurrent Painless Orogenital Ulcers for Two Decades	10
National Adherence to Medical Management of Aortic Aneurysms	10
Not Quite a Mono Spot Diagnosis. Splenic Infarction Complicating Infectious Mononucleosis	10
Table of Contents	9
Cutaneous Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis as the Presenting Sign of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus	9
Optimism and Cardiovascular Events: One Issue to be Considered	9
Nineteen-Year Trends in Mortality of Patients Hospitalized in the United States with High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism	9
The Road Warrior	9
Predicting When Women Will Achieve Equitable Representation in Four Specialties: The WHEN Study	9
Comments on ‘Coffee Bean Sign Detected by Visual Inspection’	9
‘Bowel Prep Hyponatremia’ Unmasking Underlying Adrenal Insufficiency	9
Lung Abscess in Adult with Foreign Body (Tooth)	9
Risk of Severe COVID-19 in Prevalent Users of Alpha-1 Adrenergic Receptor Antagonists: A National Case-Control Study of Medicare Beneficiaries	9
Temporal Trends in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Multimorbidity Prevalence in the United States, 1999-2018	9
The Reply	9
Erasmus Syndrome. An Exceptional Case	9
Table of Contents	9
Relationship Between Marijuana Use and Overactive Bladder (OAB): A Cross-Sectional Research of NHANES 2005 to 2018	9
An Updated Review of the Efficacy and Safety of Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Treatment of Left Ventricular Thrombus	9
It Was the Aorta but Not a Dissection: Intramural Aorta Hematoma	9
Inaccuracy of Initial Clinical Mobility Assessment in Venous Thromboembolism Risk Stratification	8
Palpable Pulsus Paradoxus in Primary Care Clinic	8
A Case of Recurrent Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy	8
Revisiting ACCORD: Should Blood Pressure Targets in People With and Without Type 2 Diabetes Be Different?	8
A Trip to Egypt: De-Nile	8
A Calcified Liver Mass	8
Trending Nutrition Controversies #3: Top Controversies in 2021	8
Atrial Fibrillation: Is Rhythm Control Required, and If So, How, and What Is the Internist's Role?	8
Advancing Best Practices for Hospitalized Patients with a Volunteer Addiction Consult Team	8
Emphysematous Cystitis and Pyelitis	8
Look Past Stubborn	8
Systemic Amyloidosis: Is It ATTR or AL?	8
Hemothorax and Bloody Ascites Caused by Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome	8
Testosterone Replacement Therapy Causing Extensive Portal and Mesenteric Vein Thrombosis	8
Legionella Pneumonia in a Patient on a Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Inhibitor	8
Ramadan Intermittent Fasting, Physical Activity, and COVID-19 Pandemic in Patients with Chronic Diseases	8
The Hidden Cost	8
A Cerebrospinal Case of Dyspnea	8
Lung, Brain, and Spinal Cord Abscesses After a Near-Drowning Episode	8
An Unusual Case of Sarcoidosis: Hypercalcemia and Normal Sized Lymph Nodes	8
The Gastrointestinal Risks of Combining NSAIDs and Endurance Exercise	7
Rethinking the Language of Bedside Rounds	7
Sarcoidosis or Crohn Disease: Diagnostic Dilemma	7
Long COVID: Does It Exist? What Is It? We Can We Do For Sufferers?	7
To See or Not to See: Blind Auditions and What Academic Medicine Can Learn from Music	7
Human Papillomavirus as Nontraditional Cardiovascular Risk Factor: Fact or Fiction? Part 2	7
Integrating Coronary Atherosclerosis Burden and Progression with Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factors to Guide Therapeutic Decision Making	7
A Glimpse into a Life	7
Practice Changing Updates in Perioperative Medicine Literature 2022. A Systematic Review	7
Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease – Evolving Concepts with Clinical Relevance	7
Chronic Summer-Type Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis Presenting as Anorexia and Weight Loss	7
Low Prevalence of Vaccination or Documented Immunity to Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B Viruses Among Individuals with Chronic Liver Disease	7
Bullous Lesions on the Foot of a Gardener	7
Combined therapy with estrogen and etidronate has an additive effect on bone mineral density in the hip and vertebrae: Four-year randomized study	7
Justice-Involved Status and In-Hospital Mortality Among Nonelderly Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021	7
The Reply	7
Medicine and Music – Is There a Connection?	7
Microwaving Food in Plastic Containers	7
Beneficial and Harmful Effects of Monoclonal Antibodies for the Treatment and Prophylaxis of COVID-19: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	7
The Reluctant Patient and the Insistent Doctor	7
Subclavian Steal Syndrome, Cerebellar Infarctions, and Alcohol	7
Abdominal Swelling and Distension: An Unusual Cause of ‘Ascites’	7
Non-Healing Leg Ulcers in a Patient with Rheumatoid Arthritis	7
How Closely Does Internal Medicine Residency Program Director Protected Time Align with the Expected Amount?	7
Factitious Hypobicarbonatemia in a Patient with Hypertriglyceridemia	7
Corrigendum to ‘Elevated NT-ProBNP as a Cardiovascular Disease Risk Equivalent: Evidence from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study’	7
Mentoring Minorities: Five Foundational Lessons	7
Fingertip Calcinosis Cutis	7
Hidden in Plain Sight: Syphilis Inequities Among American Indian and Alaska Native People, 2022-2023	7
An Urticarial Rash, Fevers, and Arthralgias	7
Pimping Socrates	7
The Reply	7
Stopping RAS Inhibitors in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiorenal Outcomes—Several Unanswered Questions Remain	7
Stabbed in the Back! Neurosarcoidosis with Spinal Cord Involvement	7
Dramatic Hyperhidrosis, Labile Blood Pressure, and Fever Associated With Thymoma	7
The Importance of Adding Discernment to the Acting Internship – A Necessary Shift in Culture Toward Competency-Based Metrics	7