Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives
Volume 7 Number 4 June–July–August 2017
CONTENTS
Research Articles
202 Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of patients with acute drug intoxication admitted to ICU
Jose Orsini, Nanda Din, Ershad Elahi, Anthony Gomez, Salil Rajayer, Ryan Malik and Elie Jean
208 The Bedside Index for Severity in Acute Pancreatitis: a systematic review of prospective studies to determine predictive performance
Subhash Chandra, Arvind Murali, Reena Bansal, Dipti Agarwal and Adrian Holm
Review Articles
214 Perspectives on non-neoformans cryptococcal opportunistic infections
Nichole Smith, Matthew Sehring, Jefferson Chambers and Preeti Patel
218 Use of dark chocolate for diabetic patients: a review of the literature and current evidence
Syed Raza Shah, Richard Alweis, Najla Issa Najim, Amin Muhammad Dharani, Muhammad Ahmed Jangda, Maira Shahid, Ahmed Nabeel Kazi and Syed Arbab Shah
Case Reports
222 Ventricular fibrillation due to overdose of loperamide, the “poor man’s methadone”
Amr Salama, Yana Levin, Pramod Jha and Richard Alweis
227 β-thalassemia minor, carbohydrate malabsorption and histamine intolerance
Wolfgang J. Schnedl, Michael Schenk, Sonja Lackner, Sandra J. Holasek and Harald Mangge
230 An unusual case of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, multiple myeloma and cardiac amyloidosis
Dongyan Liu, Hakim T. Uqdah and Alisha D. Gordy
234 Metastasis to the pancreas and stomach from a breast cancer primary: a case report
Jason Kliiger and Mayer Gorbaty
238 Case series of multiple primary cancers in single individuals: diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas
Faizan Malik, Naveed Ali, Jibran Durrani, Syed Imran Mustafa and Crystal Denlinger
241 An exceedingly rare adrenal collision tumor: adrenal adenoma–metastatic breast cancer–myelolipoma
Dongyan Liu and Sahayini A. Kumar
245 Melioidosis: the great mimicker
Mandeep Singh and Mehvish Mahmood
248 Splenic infarct in a patient with Infectious Mononucleosis: a rare presentation
Mustafa Noor, Maryam Sadough, Stephanie Chan and Gurkeerat Singh
251 Some neck swellings are serious; a case of Lemierre’s Syndrome
Ali Raza Ghani, Mohsin Hamid, Ahsan Raza, Rizwan Naseer and Joseph Crocetti
255 Pneumatosis of the esophagus and intestines with portal venous air: a rare presentation
Mustafa Noor Muhammad, Maryam Sadough, Robert King and Gurkeerat Singh
258 Multiple left anterior descending coronary artery to left ventricular fistula – A case series and literature review
Praneet Iyer and Rishitha Yelisetti
262 Coronary artery ectasia presenting with acute inferior wall myocardial infarction in a young adult
Htun Latt, Sammy Aung, Kyaw Kyaw and Richard Seher
265 Copper deficiency, a new triad: anemia, leucopenia, and myeloneuropathy
Shoaib M. Wazir and Ibrahim Ghobrial
269 An atypical subacute presentation of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome
Eseosa Bazuaye-Ekwuyasi, Chow Robert Dobbin and Sarah Schmalzle
Letter to the Editors
275 Loperamide abuse and cardiotoxicity
Nichole A. Smith, Matthew Sehring and Jefferson Chambers
276 A commentary on operamide and cardiotoxicity
Salil R. Rajayer and Charanya Sivaramakrishnan