American Journal of Medicine

Article	Citations
Narrative Competency: The Healing Potential of Storytelling	251
An Unusual Case of Nocardia Breast Abscess	213
Subcutaneous B-Cell Lymphoproliferative Disorder Mimicking Lipodystrophy	125
Idiopathic Axillary Web Syndrome	119
Is it Time to Set a 25% Decrease in eGFR as Criteria for Community-Acquired Acute Kidney Injury in Primary Care Clinics?	119
Making the Heart Grow Stronger: Reversal of Dilated Cardiomyopathy in an Elderly Patient	87
The Sixth Row on the Left: A Reflection on Medicine Grand Rounds	83
Running on Empty: A Source for Multiple Nonspecific Symptoms	82
Adverse Events After Initiating Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor/Angiotensin II Receptor Blocker Therapy in Individuals with Heart Failure and Multimorbidity	80
Popeye Deformity: A Red Flag for Wild-Type Transthyretin Amyloidosis	80
Medical Jeopardy Quiz: Medicinal Plants	78
Teaching Leadership…More than Just White Men	77
In Plain Sight: An Inconspicuous Case of a Giant Cell Tumor	76
Fulminating Lymphocytic Myocarditis and Its Mimics	75
Clinical Efficacy of Tixagevimab/Cilgavimab Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in Immunocompromised Patients Treated During Omicron Sublineages Diffusion. Real-Life Experience from ASST Lecco	68
Bacteremia, Liver Injury, and Pneumonitis: Strongyloides Unleashed by a Supplement	62
Aspergillus Brain Abscess in a Patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus	61
Infective Endocarditis: An Update	57
Improving the OTC Drug Approval Process: A Public Health Priority	56
Spousal Loss: The Agony of Widowhood	54
Insight Regarding Solving the Current Physician Shortage	54
The Reply	52
Table of Contents	50
Treatment of Drug-Induced Dermatitis and Itching with Diclofenac Gel	48
Parasitic Infestation Presenting as Advanced Infiltrating Tumor Mimicking Adrenal Cancer	48

Practice for Real Life: Diversifying Cases in Educational Conferences	45
The Reply	44
The Unique Fusion: Systemic Sclerosis and Ankylosing Spondylitis Overlap	43
Looking Beyond LinkedIn: The Case for Excellence and Academic Rigor in Quality and Safety Programs	42
Trichuris trichiura: A Moving Source of Anemia	41
Utility of a Diagnostic Time-Out to Evaluate an Atypical Pneumonia	40
Management of Hospitalized Kidney Transplant Recipients for Hospitalists and Internists	38
Sarcopenia in the era of GLP-1 receptor agonists: Implications for the internist	38
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	37
Long-Term Cardiac Monitoring After Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source: Search Longer, Look Harder	37
Factors Associated With Long COVID: Insights From Two Nationwide Surveys	35
Economic burden of smoking: evidence from a 1.6 million cohort in Hong Kong	35
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]	34
Caring for Hospitalized Adults with Methamphetamine Use Disorder: A Proposed Clinical Roadmap	34
Retraction notice to ‘Combined Therapy With Estrogen and Etidronate has an Additive Effect on Bone Mineral Density in the Hip and Vertebrae: Four-Year Randomized Study’ [The American Journal of Medici	34
Primary Medical Care Integrated with Healthy Eating and Healthy Moving is Essential to Reduce Chronic Kidney Disease Progression	34
Turn Healthcare Workers Loose with Outpatient Telemedicine—Let Them Decide Its Fate; No Top-Down Decisions on What It Can and Cannot Do	33
Combined Sodium-Glucose-Transporters Inhibitors and Glucagon-Like-Peptide Receptor Agonist Compared With Monotherapy Improves Long-Term Survival: A Real-World Registry	33
The Grade Debate: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Perspectives on Clerkship Assessment Across the UME to GME Continuum	31
Vision on the line: Central retinal artery occlusion as the presenting complaint in granulomatous polyangiitis	31
Mycoplasma Pneumoniae-Associated Reactive Infectious Mucocutaneous Eruption Sine Rash	31
Spodick’s sign: A helpful clue in asymptomatic pericarditis	31
Structural Cardiac Abnormalities in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation/Flutter and Myocardial Injury	31
The national physician shortfall: Role of international medical graduates	30
Table of Contents	30
Recurrent swelling in the floor of the mouth	30
Added Prognostic Value of Plaque Burden to Computed Tomography Angiography and Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in Patients with Diabetes	29
Association between pet ownership and incident dementia: A systematic review	28
Exploring the evidence that supports the benefits of the multidisciplinary team in inflammatory bowel disease	27
Elderly-Onset Seronegative Inflammatory Arthritis: A Narrative Review and Practical Approach	27
The reply	26
Prosthetic Joint Infections of the Hip and Knee Among the Elderly: A Retrospective Study	26
Artificial Intelligence for Identification of Patients with Increased Risk of Severe Cancer Therapy-Related Cardiac Dysfunction Following Anthracycline Therapy	26
Herpes zoster presenting as a penile rash: Pearls and pitfalls	26
When fast and slow collide	25
Pheochromocytoma-Induced Angina Pectoris Mimicking Acute Coronary Syndrome	25
SALT	24
Lumbar Disc Herniation: Diagnosis and Management	23
Temporomandibular disorders: An overlooked epidemic	23
Initiation of Anti-Hypertensive Drugs and Outcomes in Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction	23
Evolving Trends in US Mortality from Opioid Overdose: Heroin and Beyond	22
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Ankle Arthritis and Subsequent Immune-Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome	22
The Reply	22
Turning Positive: Normal Aging and The Review of Systems	22
Environmental Neurotoxins and a Neurodegenerative Outbreak: Diagnosis Requires Specific Sampling Knowledge	22
Heads-Up! A Caregiver's Perspective on Lewy Body Dementia	22
Paxlovid: A Regulatory Gamble	22
Delayed Onset Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia Presenting as Fever of Unknown Origin	21
Is Retirement Meant for You?	21
Perioperative Antiplatelet Strategy in Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery Within One Year After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention	21

Navigating the Shadows: COVID-19′s Lingering Threat – Pulmonary Fibrosis	20
Table of Contents	20
Addressing COVID Vaccine Hesitancy and Its Impact on Road Crashes	19
Table of Contents	19
The Reply	19
The Reply	19
Lifestyle Approach and Medical Therapy of Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease	19
The Reply	19
Impact of Unhealthy Lifestyles on Patients with Atrial Fibrillation at Low Risk of Stroke: A Nationwide Cohort Study	19
Timeless Caves, Sacred Spaces, Cardiology Clinics	18
The Ultrasound Hepato-Jugular Reflux: Measuring the Hepato-Jugular Reflux with Ultrasound with Comparison to Invasive Right Heart Catheterization	18
Naloxone Over the Counter: Increasing Opportunities and Challenges for Health Providers	18
The Clinical Paradox	18
Nonketotic Hyperglycemic Hemichorea	18
Massive Vulvar Edema: A Sign of Nephrotic Syndrome	18
Septic Arthritis of the Costovertebral Joint Mimicking Shingles	17
Renal Artery Denervation for the Management of Hypertension: Current Trends and Future Direction	17
Transfiguration of Academic Departments of Medicine	17
In the Pursuit of Immortality, Who is Sitting at the Table?	17
Medical Aphorisms Redux	17
An Unusually Rapid-Onset Portal Hypertension	17
Fatal tea tree oil intoxication: A case report	16
Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Obese Patients with Venous Thromboembolism: Results of an Expert Consensus Panel	16
Pancreatic mass caused by Actinomyces infection	16
Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with Nonrheumatic Streptococcal Pharyngitis-Associated Myocarditis	16
The Potential Influence of Firearm Violence on Physical Inactivity in the United States	16
Association of Sedentary Lifestyle with Risk of Acute and Post-Acute COVID-19 Sequelae: A Retrospective Cohort Study	15
Immunizations, Autism, and Statistical Analysis	15
Predicting Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias in Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation	15
A Rare Case of Stiff Person Syndrome: From Spasms to Bedbound	15
Adult Scaphoid Abdomen	15
Nutrition on the United States Medical Licensing Step 1 Exam: A 'Low-Yield' Topic?	15
Misconceptions and Facts about Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction	14
Blood Pressure/Heart Rate-Derived Ratios as Indices of Health and Cardiovascular Pathology	14
Oral Rehydration Solution: A Landmark Discovery in Medicine and the Legacy of Dr. Dilip Mahalanabis	14
Using SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Testing in COVID-19 Research	14
When Crouching Gait Reveals Crohn's Disease	14
Emphysematous Cystitis Detected by Point-of-Care Ultrasound	14
Multicancer Early detection Panels (MCEDs) in the Primary Care Setting	14
The false currency of authorship	13
The Combination of Afternoon and Midnight Salivary Cortisol Improves the Diagnosis of Cushing Syndrome	13
Discernment and finding joy in medicine: Commentary	13
Alternating amaurosis fugax: A critical warning sign of giant cell arteritis	13
Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) antagonists in the perioperative setting: An updated review	13
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	13
Limited English Proficiency in Older Adults Referred to the Cardiovascular Team	13
Hospital-Acquired Anemia in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome: Epidemiology and Potential Impact on Long-Term Outcome	13
The prognostic value of serial six-minute walk testing for mortality prediction in heart failure patients	13
Practice-Changing Updates in Perioperative Medicine Literature 2020-2021: A Systematic Review	13
Face Off: 3D-Printed Masks as a Cost-Effective and Reusable Alternative to N95 Respirators: A Feasibility Study	13
Slow Rhythm, Hidden Tumor	13
Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders Mimicking Wernicke Encephalopathy	13
The earliest history of human atherosclerosis	13
Effect of Dexamethasone on Myocardial Injury After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Substudy of the Randomized Clinical DEX-2-TKA Trial	13
Call for a New Medical Fellowship	13
Which Was the Real Guilty Party: Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus pseudintermedius, Pasteurella multocida or All of Them?	12
A Hidden Challenge: Tongue Abscess Inducing Trismus in an Older Woman	12
Ghost of Summer, 1988	12
Elevated International Normalized Ratio and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients Treated with Direct Oral Anticoagulants	12
The Road Warrior	12
Medical Jeopardy Quiz: Infections and Cancer	12
Variations on a Theme	12
On Hoofs and Zebras – Struma Ovarii	12
Risk of Severe COVID-19 in Prevalent Users of Alpha-1 Adrenergic Receptor Antagonists: A National Case-Control Study of Medicare Beneficiaries	12
Remembering the White Rose: How a Group of Medical Students Took on Hitler	12
Terminological Insights in Ludwig Angina: Evaluating Pseudo Tongue, Double Tongue, and Ludwig Sign	12
Applying the ABCs of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention to the 2023 AHA/ACC Multisociety Chronic Coronary Disease Guidelines	11
Wooden Toothpick and Pancreatitis	11
Is napping good or bad for your health?	11
National Adherence to Medical Management of Aortic Aneurysms	11
The Second Naiveté	11
Regarding the Surgical Management of Vertebral Compression Fractures	11
Recurrent Painless Orogenital Ulcers for Two Decades	11
Bridging the Gap in Competency Assessment During Transition from Undergraduate Medical Education to Graduate Medical Education: A Perspective Piece	11
Severe rhabdomyolysis due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae	11
Socioeconomic Deprivation, Unhealthy Lifestyle, and Premature Mortality in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: A Population-Based Longitudinal Study	11
Pregnancy Protection in Women of Childbearing Age Prescribed RAS Inhibitors or Statins: Cohort Study	11
Behind the Mirror	11
Improvement in Endothelial Function in Men Taking Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Inhibitors for Erectile Dysfunction	11
The Reply	11

Table of Contents	11
Armor, vulnerability, and connectedness: Exploring humanism in the middle of residency	11
Recurrent foreign body ingestion and transstomal insertion in a patient with end ileostomy: An image case	11
Representation of women in internal medicine physicians: Analysis utilizing Medicare billing data and future directions	10
Retraction notice to ‘Homocysteine as A Predictive Factor for Hip Fracture in Elderly Women With Parkinson’s Disease’ [The American Journal of Medicine 118 (2005) 1250-1255]	10
New Clinical and Public Health Challenges in Vaccinations in US Adults	10
Removal notice to “Cervical Oncogenic Human Papillomavirus Infection: The Natural History” [The American Journal of Medicine 122 (2009) S10-S15]	10
Laryngeal Stenosis in Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid: A Life-Threatening Case	10
Selective Screening for Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis: An Appraisal of the 2024 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines Position	10
'You Are the Only Doctor I Know Who Still Wears a White Coat!'	10
Corrigendum to ‘Effect of Inpatient Medication-Assisted Therapy on Against-Medical-Advice Discharge and Readmission Rates’ (2020) 1343-1349	10
It’s Not Always Molluscum: A Case of Disseminated Cryptococcosis	10
Psoas Abscess as a Complication of a Perinephric Abscess	10
Temporal Trends in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Multimorbidity Prevalence in the United States, 1999-2018	10
Coagulative Biomarkers Differently Predict Clinical Outcomes in Invasive Infections Caused by Neisseria Meningitidis and Streptococcus Pneumoniae	10
The PAX LC Trial: A Decentralized, Phase 2, Randomized, Double-Blind Study of Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir Compared with Placebo/Ritonavir for Long COVID	10
A Possible Reversible Cause of Cognitive Impairment: Undiagnosed Cirrhosis and Potential Hepatic Encephalopathy in Patients with Dementia	10
Understanding Antiarrhythmic Drug Efficacy for the Clinical Practitioner: There Is More than Meets the Eye	10
Critical Care Exposure and Preparedness Among Internal Medicine Residents: Results from the American College of Physicians In-Training Exam Survey	10
Biological disease-modifying agents transform rheumatology treatment	10
Human Immortality: The Quest for Permanence	10
A Calcified Liver Mass	9
Hidden in Plain Sight: Syphilis Inequities Among American Indian and Alaska Native People, 2022-2023	9
Combined therapy with estrogen and etidronate has an additive effect on bone mineral density in the hip and vertebrae: Four-year randomized study	9
Relationship Between Marijuana Use and Overactive Bladder (OAB): A Cross-Sectional Research of NHANES 2005 to 2018	9
Long-term aspirin use and heart failure risk: Methodological insights and remaining uncertainty	9
Patient Health or Corporate Profits – Shouldn’t the Former Come First?	9
Do We Need Fasting Prior to Coronary Angiography? The CORO-NF Randomized Pragmatic Study	9
Erasmus Syndrome. An Exceptional Case	9
A Trip to Egypt: De-Nile	9
Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae liver abscess: Management of an extensive and multiloculated presentation	9
Examining Well-Being and Cognitive Function in People With Long COVID and ME/CFS, and Age-Matched Healthy Controls: A Case-Case-Control Study	9
Decoding objective cough features in progressive pulmonary fibrosis: A 6-month feasibility study	9
The Reply	9
Fingertip Calcinosis Cutis	9
Optimism and Cardiovascular Events: One Issue to be Considered	9
Post-acute cardiovascular and stroke care and the potential of certification programs: A ‘Call to Action’	9
Characteristics and Diagnostic Challenge of Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody Positive Infective Endocarditis	9
Patient-Tailored Interventions to Improve Specialty Medication Adherence: Results from a Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial	9
The Hidden Cost	8
Hemothorax and Bloody Ascites Caused by Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome	8
Inaccuracy of Initial Clinical Mobility Assessment in Venous Thromboembolism Risk Stratification	8
Medicine and Music – Is There a Connection?	8
Table of Contents	8
Recurrent epistaxis due to traumatic internal carotid artery pseudoaneurysm	8
Corrigendum to ‘Elevated NT-ProBNP as a Cardiovascular Disease Risk Equivalent: Evidence from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study’	8
How Closely Does Internal Medicine Residency Program Director Protected Time Align with the Expected Amount?	8
An Unusual Case of Sarcoidosis: Hypercalcemia and Normal Sized Lymph Nodes	8
Revisiting ACCORD: Should Blood Pressure Targets in People With and Without Type 2 Diabetes Be Different?	8
A Case of Recurrent Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy	8
Look Past Stubborn	8
Reduced Left Ventricular Apical Rotation: A Novel Pathophysiological Correlate Underlining Acute Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation	8
Justice-Involved Status and In-Hospital Mortality Among Nonelderly Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021	8
In quest of excellent clinical teachers	8
To See or Not to See: Blind Auditions and What Academic Medicine Can Learn from Music	8
The Gastrointestinal Risks of Combining NSAIDs and Endurance Exercise	8
When Napping is Not the Villain: a Clinical Research Associate’s Perspective	8
Lung Abscess in Adult with Foreign Body (Tooth)	8
Dramatic Hyperhidrosis, Labile Blood Pressure, and Fever Associated With Thymoma	8
Systemic Amyloidosis: Is It ATTR or AL?	8
Beyond Skin and Nails: The Hidden Dangers of Biotin Supplementation	8
It Was the Aorta but Not a Dissection: Intramural Aorta Hematoma	8
An ideal patient	8
Atrial Fibrillation: Is Rhythm Control Required, and If So, How, and What Is the Internist's Role?	8
Beyond one-size-fits-all: The future of beta-blockers in coronary artery disease	8
Legionella Pneumonia in a Patient on a Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Inhibitor	8
Predicting When Women Will Achieve Equitable Representation in Four Specialties: The WHEN Study	8
An Urticarial Rash, Fevers, and Arthralgias	8
Correlation of Pyuria and Bacteriuria in Acute Care	8
Sarcoidosis or Crohn Disease: Diagnostic Dilemma	8
The Reply	8
Comments on ‘Coffee Bean Sign Detected by Visual Inspection’	8
Social media and the health care professional - Watching your back (and your posts) and keeping your day job	7
Human Papillomavirus as Nontraditional Cardiovascular Risk Factor: Fact or Fiction? Part 2	7
Beneficial and Harmful Effects of Monoclonal Antibodies for the Treatment and Prophylaxis of COVID-19: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	7
A Culinary Conundrum: Flagellate Erythema Unveiled	7
Expanding Therapeutic Strategies for Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells	7
Respirophasic ventricular septal motion: Differentiating the cardiopulmonary causes of Pulsus Paradoxus	7
Pharmacogenomics: Clinical progress	7
Oral infiltration of chronic lymphocytic leukemia signifying disease progression	7
En Coup de Sabre and Terry's Nail: Rare Cutaneous Manifestations of Mixed Connective Tissue Disease	7
Citation of a Retracted Paper Related to Predatory Publishing Blacklists	7
The Reply	7
An Isolated Kaposi's Sarcoma of the Tongue in an HIV-Negative Patient	7
Above the Threshold Time of Coagulation: Delayed Diagnosis of Acquired Hemophilia A	7
Removal notice to "Cervical Cancer Prevention: Understanding Current Clinical Data for Prophylactic Vaccines" [The American Journal of Medicine 122 (2009) S16-S23]	7
The Management of Sarcoidosis in the 2020s by the Primary Care Physician	7
Microwaving Food in Plastic Containers	7
Integrative Migraine Management Within a Healthcare System Part 2: Behavioral, Complementary and Neuromodualtion Approaches	7
Lupus Vulgaris	7
The Reply	7
Double strike of the great mimicker: A case of bone and lung melioidosis	7
Could Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis Be the Source of Septic Pulmonary Embolism?	7
Corrigendum to ‘Integrating Coronary Atherosclerosis Burden and Progression with Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factors to Guide Therapeutic Decision Making’ The American Journal of Medicine 136:03 (202	7
Cutaneous Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis as the Presenting Sign of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus	7