Publications from the Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University.

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Submissions from 2014

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Adaptation of an evidence-based intervention to promote colorectal cancer screening: a quasi-experimental study, Shin-Ping Tu, Alan Chun, Yutaka Yasui, Alan Kuniyuki, Mei-Po Yip, Vicky Taylor, and Roshan Bastani

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Isolated Gastric Myeloid Sarcoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature, Pankit Vachhani and Prithviraj Bose

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Rare Manifestation of a Rare Disease, Acute Liver Failure in Adult Onset Still’s Disease: Dramatic Response to Methylprednisolone Pulse Therapy—A Case Report and Review, Nalini Valluru, Venkata S. Tammana, Michael Windham, Eyasu Mekonen, Rehana Begum, and Andrew Sanderson

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Impact of Appropriate Antimicrobial Therapy for Patients with Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock – A Quality Improvement Study, Paula K. O. Yokota, Alexandre R. Marra, Marines D. V. Martino, Elivane S. Victor, Marcelino S. Durão, Michael B. Edmond, and Oscar F. P. dos Santos

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Impact of Appropriate Antimicrobial Therapy for Patients with Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock – A Quality Improvement Study, Paula K. O. Yokota, Alexandre R. Marra, Marines D. V. Martino, Elivane S. Victor, Marcelino S. Durão, Michael B. Edmond, and Oscar F. P. dos Santos

Submissions from 2013

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Modulation of the Metabiome by Rifaximin in Patients with Cirrhosis and Minimal Hepatic Encephalopathy, Jasmohan S. Bajaj, Douglas M. Heuman, Arun J. Sanyal, Phillip B. Hylemon, Richard K. Sterling, R. Todd Stravitz, Michael Fuchs, Jason M. Ridlon, Kalyani Daita, Pamela Monteith, Nicole A. Noble, Melanie B. White, Andmorgan Fisher, Masoumeh Sikaroodi, Huzefa Rangwala, and Patrick M. Gillevet

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Improving the diagnosis of meningitis due to enterovirus and herpes simplex virus I and II in a tertiary care hospital, Eduardo Casaroto, Alexandre R. Marra, Fernando Morgadinho S. Coelho, Joao Renato Rebello Pinho, Roberta Sitnik, Fernando Colombari, Elivane Silva Victor, Nair Hideko Muto, Carlos Senne, Oscar Fernando Pavão dos Santos, and Michael B. Edmond

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Multi-SNP Analysis of GWAS Data Identifies Pathways Associated with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Qing-Rong Chen, Rosemary Braun, Ying Hu, Chunhua Yan, Elizabeth M. Brunt, Daoud Meerzaman, Arun J. Sanyal, and Kenneth Buetow

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hTERT promoter polymorphism, -1327C>T, is associated with the risk of epithelial cancer, Toshihiko Iizuka, Motoji Sawabe, Kaiyo Takubo, Miao Liu, Yukio Homma, Motofumi Suzuki, and Tomio Arai

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Time to blood culture positivity as a predictor of clinical outcome in patients with Candida albicans bloodstream infection, Cintia Zoya Nunes, Alexandre R. Marra, Michael B. Edmond, Elivane da Silva Victor, and Carlos Alberto Pires Pereira

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Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections in Brazilian Pediatric Patients: Microbiology, Epidemiology, and Clinical Features, Carlos Albert Pires Pereira, Alexandre R. Marra, Luis Fernando A. Camargo, Antonio Carlos Campos Pignatari, Teresa Sukiennik, Paulo Renato Petersen Behar, Eduardo Alexandrino Servolo Medieros, Julival Ribeiro, Evelyne Girao, Luci Correa, Carla Guerra, Ima Cameiro, Carlos Brites, Marise Reis, Marta Antunes de Souza, Regina Tranchesi, Cristina U. Barata, and Michael B. Edmond

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Fenretinide Causes Emphysema, Which Is Prevented by Sphingosine 1-Phoshate, Masanori Yasuo, Shiro Mizuno, Jeremy Allegood, Donatas Kraskauskas, Harm J. Bogaard, Sarah Spiegel, and Norbert F. Voelkel

Submissions from 2012

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Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis in Association with Congenital Dyserythropoietic Anemia: A Case Report, Marcus A. Carden, Ashish Barman, and Gita Massey

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A program for sustained improvement in preventing ventilator associated pneumonia in an intensive care setting, Raquel A. Caserta, Alexandre R. Marra, Marcelino S. Durão, Cláudia Vallone Silva, Oscar Fernando Pavao dos Santos, Henrique Sutton de Sousa Neves, Michael B. Edmond, and Karina Tavares Timenetsky

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Metabolomic Profiling to Identify Predictors of Response to Vitamin E for Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH), Jianfeng Cheng, Andrew Joyce, Katherine Yates, Bradley Aouizerat, and Arun J. Sanyal

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Blockade of Electron Transport at the Onset of Reperfusion Decreases Cardiac Injury in Aged Hearts by Protecting the Inner Mitochondrial Membrane, Qun Chen, Thomas Ross, Ying Hu, and Edward J. Lesnefsky

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Catheter Related Bloodstream Infection (CR-BSI) in ICU Patients: Making the Decision to Remove or Not to Remove the Central Venous Catheter, Rodrigo O. Deliberato, Alexandre R. Marra, Thiago D. Correa, Marines D. V. Martino, Luci Correa, Oscar Fernando Pavao dos Santos, and Michael B. Edmond

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Inflammation, Coagulation and Cardiovascular Disease in HIV-Infected Individuals, Daniel A. Duprez, Jacqueline Neuhaus, Lewis H. Kuller, Russell Tracy, Waldo Belloso, Stephane De Wit, Fraser Drummond, H. Clifford Lane, Bruno Ledergerber, Jens Lundgren, Daniel Nixon, Nicholas I. Paton, and Ronald J. Prineas

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Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: The Bile Acid-Activated Farnesoid X Receptor as an Emerging Treatment Target, Michael Fuchs

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Acrolein Induces Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Causes Airspace Enlargement, Yoshiaki Kitaguchi, Laimute Taraseviciene-Stewart, Masayuki Hanaoka, Ramesh Natarajan, Donatas Kraskauskas, and Norbert F. Voelkel

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Copper Deficiency Induced Emphysema Is Associated with Focal Adhesion Kinase Inactivation, Shiro Mizuno, Masanori Yasuo, Harm J. Bogaard, Donatas Kraskauskas, Aysar A. Alhussini, Jose Gomez-Arroyo, Daniela Farkas, Laszlo Farkas, and Norbert F. Voelkel

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Posttransplant Metabolic Syndrome, M. Shadab Siddiqui and Richard K. Sterling

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Anti-Inflammatory and Cardioprotective Effects of Tadalafil in Diabetic Mice, Amit Varma, Anindita Das, Nicholas N. Hoke, David E. Durrant, Fadi N. Salloum, and Rakesh C. Kukreja

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Interactions between Bile Acids and Nuclear Receptors and Their Effects on Lipid Metabolism and Liver Diseases, David Q.-H. Wang, Brent A. Neuschwander-Tetri, Piero Portincasa, and William M. Pandak

Submissions from 2011

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Complications of nephrogenic systemic fibrosis following repeated exposure to gadolinium in a man with hypothyroidism: a case report, Arpita Aggarwal, Allison A. Froehlich, Paulina Essah, Nooshin K. Brinster, Whitney A. High, and Robert W. Downs