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

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Submissions from 2011

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Decreasing Mortality in Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock Patients by Implementing a Sepsis Bundle in a Hospital Setting, Sandra C. P. L. Shiramizo, Alexandre R. Marra, Marcelino S. Durao, Angela T. Paes, Michael B. Edmond, and Oscar Fernando Pavao dos Santos

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Individual Physician versus Team-Based Medical Encounters: Maximizing the Efficiency of a Medical Relief Service in Rural Honduras, Rachel Whitney, Michael P. Stevens, and Gonzalo M. L. Bearman

Submissions from 2010

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Rifaximin Treatment in Hepatic Encephalopathy, Nathan M. Bass, Kevin D. Mullen, Arun J. Sanyal, Fred Poordad, Guy Neff, Carroll B. Leevy, Samuel Sigal, Muhammad Y. Sheikh, Kimberly Beavers, Todd Frederick, Lewis Teperman, Donald Hillebrand, Shirley Huang, Kunal Merchant, Audrey Shaw, Enoch Bortey, and William P. Forbes

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Immunomodulatory strategies prevent the development of autoimmune emphysema, Masayuki Hanaoka, Mark R. Nicolls, Andrew P. Fontenot, Donatas Kraskauskas, Douglas G. Mack, Adelheid Kratzer, Jonas Salys, Vita Kraskauskiene, Nana Burns, Norbert F. Voelkel, and Laimute Taraseviciene-Stewart

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Pioglitazone, Vitamin E, or Placebo for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis, Arun J. Sanyal, Naga Chalasani, Kris V. Kowdley, Arthur McCollough, Anna Mae Diehl, Nathan M. Bass, Brent A. Neuschwander-Tetri, Joel E. Lavine, James Tonascia, Aynur Unalp, Mark Van Natta, Jeanne Clark, Elizabeth M. Brunt, David E. Kleiner, Jay H. Hoofnagle, and Patricia R. Robuck

Submissions from 2009

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Severe Lactic Acidosis in a Patient with B-Cell Lymphoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature, Farn Huei Chan, Daniel Carl, and Laurel J. Lyckholm

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Phosphodiesterase-5 inhibition and cardioprotection: potential role of hydrogen sulfide, Rakesh C. Kukreja, Vinh Q. Chau, Nicholas N. Hoke, Antonio Abbate, Amit Varma, Ramzi A. Ockaili, Stefano Toldo, and Fadi N. Salloum

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Peginterferon Alfa-2b or Alfa-2a with Ribavirin for Treatment of Hepatitis C Infection, John G. McHutchison, Eric J. Lawitz, Mitchell L. Shiffman, Andrew J. Muir, Greg W. Galler, Jonathan McCone, Lisa M. Nyberg, William M. Lee, Reem H. Ghalib, Eugene R. Schiff, Joseph S. Galati M.D., Bruce R. Bacon, Mitchell N. Davis, Pabak Mukhopadhyay, Kenneth Koury, Stephanie Noviello, Lisa D. Pedicone, Clifford A. Bass, Janice K. Albrecht, and Mark S. Sulkowski

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Hypoxia regulates human lung fibroblast proliferation via p53-dependent and -independent pathways, Shiro Mizuno, Herman J. Bogaard, Norbert F. Voelkel, Yukihiro Umeda, Maiko Kadowaki, Shingo Ameshima, Isamu Miyamori, and Takeshi Ishizaki

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Multiple splice defects in ABCA1 cause low HDL-C in a family with Hypoalphalipoproteinemia and premature coronary disease, Jeffrey Rhyne, Myrna M. Mantaring, David F. Gardner, and Michael Miller

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Estrogen exposure, obesity and thyroid disease in women with severe pulmonary hypertension, Lori Sweeney and Norbert F. Voelkel

Submissions from 2008

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Randomized trial comparing daily interruption of sedation and nursing-implemented sedation algorithm in medical intensive care unit patients, Marjolein de Wit, Chris Gennings, Wendy I. Jenvey, and Scott K. Epstein

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Inflammatory and Coagulation Biomarkers and Mortality in Patients with HIV Infection, Lewis H. Kuller, Russell Tracy, Waldo Belloso, Stephane De Wit, Fraser Drummond, H. Clifford Lane, Bruno Ledergerber, Jens Lundgren, Jacqueline Neuhaus, Daniel Nixon, Nicholas I. Paton, and James D. Neaton

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Metformin for the Treatment of the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, John E. Nestler

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Treatment of Patients with the Hypereosinophilic Syndrome with Mepolizumab, Marc E. Rothenberg, Amy D. Klion, Florence E. Roufosse, Jean E. Kahn, Peter F. Weller, Hans-Uwe Simon, Lawrence B. Schwartz, Lanny J. Rosenwasser, Johannes Ring, Elaine F. Griffin, Ann E. Haig, Paul I. H. Frewer, Jacqueline M. Parkin, and Gerald J. Gleich

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Evaluating and monitoring analgesia and sedation in the intensive care unit, Curtis N. Sessler, Mary Jo Grap, and Michael A.E. Ramsey

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Analgesia and sedation in the intensive care unit: an overview of the issues, Curtis N. Sessler and Wolfram Wilhelm

Submissions from 2007

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Hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile-associated disease in the intensive care unit setting: epidemiology, clinical course and outcome, Alexandre R. Marra, Michael B. Edmond, Richard P. Wenzel, and Gonzalo M. L. Bearman

Submissions from 2006

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Systemic inflammatory response syndrome in adult patients with nosocomial bloodstream infections due to enterococci, Katharine Bar, Hilmar Wisplinghoff, Richard P. Wenzel, Gonzalo M. L. Bearman, and Michael B. Edmond

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Comparison of severity of illness scoring systems for patients with nosocomial bloodstream infection due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Alexandre R. Marra, Gonzalo M. L. Bearman, Richard P. Wenzel, and Michael B. Edmond

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Nosocomial bloodstream infections caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae: impact of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) production on clinical outcome in a hospital with high ESBL prevalence, Alexandre R. Marra, Sérgio B. Wey, Adauto Castelo, Ana Cristina Gales, Guilherme R. Cal, José R. do Carmo Filho, Michael B. Edmond, and Carlos Alberto Pires Pereira

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Acute Brochitis, Richard P. Wenzel and Alpha A. Fowler III

Submissions from 2005

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Epidural abscess caused by Streptococcus milleri in a pregnant woman, Russell Lampen and Gonzalo M. L. Bearman

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Comparison of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome between monomicrobial and polymicrobial Pseudomonas aeruginosa nosocomial bloodstream infections, Alexandre R. Marra, Gonzalo M. L. Bearman, Richard P. Wenzel, and Michael B. Edmond

Submissions from 2004

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Ten Years’ Experience with Alendronate for Osteoporosis in Postmenopausal Women, Henry G. Bone; David Hosking; Jean-Pierre Devogelaer; Joseph R. Tucci; Ronald D. Emkey; Richard P. Tornino; Jose A. Rodriguez-Portales , M.D.; Robert W. Downs; Jayanti Gupta; Arthur C. Santora; and Uri A. Liberman