Research & Publications
TTUHSC Department of Internal Medicine Faculty, Resident and Student Scholarly Activity.
The Department has received the award for The Most Published Department for the last five years or more. We continue to strive each year to reach this goal.
- Siddiqui Z, Thein V, Patel M. "SLE and Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis in an 18 Year-old Presenting with Skin Rash" Journal of Anesthesia & Critical Care: Open Access, 2017 Volume * Issue 4, http://medcraveonline.com/JACCOA/JACCOA-08-00311.pd
- Qasim, Prabha, Islam ASM, “Old Disease in New Looks: A Case of Luetic Hepatitis in an Asymptomatic Neurosyphilis Patient.”, Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(140):393-659
- Al-Shammaa, Salh, Islam ASM, “CMV infection-induced life threatening acute hemolysis, pancytopenia and critical B12 deficiency in an immunocompetent host.”, Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(171):393-659
- McLain, Smalligan, Alexander, Khandheria, “Shoulder pain on Steroids.”, Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(245):393-659
- Salagundla, Smalligan, Vo, Garrido, “An Unfortunate case of Heartburn”, Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(31):393-659
- Sunkara, Patil, Garrido, Smalligan, Bharadwaj, “Intracranial Tumors as a Stroke Mimic; A Case Report.”, Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(222):393-659
- Groot-J, Groot-S, Wood, Nadesan, “Three Strikes but no Out”, Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(188):393-659
- Groot-S, Groot-J, Wood, Nadesan, “Double Trouble”, Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(189):393-659
- Choksi, Omer, “Multiple Myeloma presenting as acute liver failure secondary to extra medullary hepatic plasma cell infiltration.”, Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(183):393-659
- Chatterjee, Islam, Smalligan, Hardwicke, “A Hidden Disease with an Obvious Diagnosis: A Case of Dermatomyisitis Associated with Seminoma.”, Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(67):393-659
- Young, Bhatia, Scott, Smalligan, “When culture and language barriers can be blinding.”, Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(149):393-659
- Nguyen, Garrido, Smalligan, Graham, “An unusual case of small bowel mesenteric hydatid cyst disease.”, Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(138):393-659
- Dhott, Pabba, Razi, Smalligan, Cutts, An unusual case of Encephalopathy.” Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(268):393-659
- Bhatia, Young, Scott, Smalligan, “When it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, is it one?”, Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(14):393-659
- Salagundla, Chandra, Islam ASM, “Levamisole induced Vacuities: An Emerging Condition with Cocaine Abuse.” Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(9):393-659
- Mirza, Habib, Williams, Stoughton, Vo, Smalligan, “When a Canula can cause a Catastrophe” Legionella in a Long-term Facility.”, Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(108):393-659
- Siddiqui, Goot-J, Turner, Abbey, Omer, “Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia leading to empyema Necessities and Perinephric abuscess in a diabetic with lingering heel ulcer.”, Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(259):393-659
- Malik, Huang, Nazim, Smalligan, Omer, “Not your typical Variceal Bleed” Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(135):393-659
- Opoku, Turner, Prasad, Malik, Smalligan, Chandra, “Substance Abuse Induced CNS Demyelination or Multiple Sclerosis?: A Diagnostic Dilemma.” Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(274):393-659
- Mahoney, Omer, “The Great Imitator -- An Unusual Presentation of Secondary Syphilis.” Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(244):393-659
- Islam-M, Alqassimi, Islam, ASM, Smalligan. “Confusion and Coagulopathy in an Elderly: Think Salicylate Toxicity.” Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(18):393-659
- SE. Koshy, R Bharadwaj, R. Smalligan. “Check my eyes to make the Diagnosis: A Case of Steele Richardson Olszewki Syndrome.” Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(271):393-659
- Salguero Bermonth, Smalligan, Vasylyeva, Cutts, “Pilot Study: Attention to Women's Health Issues by Male vs Female Residents.”, Journal of Investigative Medicine 2017; 65(595):393-659
- Salguero Bermonth, Smalligan, Vasylyeva, Cutts, “Pilot Study: Attention to Women's Health Issues by Male vs Female Residents.”, The 25th Anniversary Congress on Women’s Health, Washington, DC April 28-30, 2017
- Chatterjee, Bharadwaj, “Annual Memory Screening Events at TTUHSC Amarillo: A Five-year Experience.” American Geriatrics Society 2017 Annual Scientific Meeting, San Antonio, TX, May 18-20, 2017
- Moellering, Prasad, Smalligan “Friends with Low Platelets.” Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 19-22, 2017
- Ibanez, Siddiqui, Srinilta, Bazzaz, Smalligan “When a Simple Cyst can Threaten Your Life” Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 19-22, 2017
- Ngo, Jennings, Urban, Islam A. “Bad Pott Luck” Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 19-22, 2017
- Tejale, Khandheria, Smalligan, “Eagle in a Tailspin (Stylohyoid Syndrome Leads to Vertigo)”, Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 19-22, 2017
- Kyaw, Ahmed, Smalligan, Vo, "Straight to the Heart: Unusual site of Metastatic", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Salagundla, Nethuja; Siddiqui, Shayan; Mirza, Asadullah; Islam, ASM, "A RARE CASE
OF GASTRO SPLENIC FISTULA ARISING
FROM DIFFUSE LARGE B CELL LYMPHOMA", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018 - Salagundla, Nethuja; Siddiqui, Shayan; Chandralekha, Ashangari; Islam, ASM, "BUGS IN MY HEAD: A CASE OF INTRAVENTRICULAR NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS CAUSING ACUTEHYDROCEPHALUS.", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Salagundla, Nethuja; Siddiqui, Shayan; Mirza, Asadullah; Islam, ASM, "PARADOXICAL RESPONSE TO ANTITUBERCULOUS THERAPY IN AN HIV NEGATIVE TB PATIENT.", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Kyaw, Phyo P; Nahapetyan, Lusine; Alhamza, Hussain; Nguyen, Kim-Long Richard; Alsharif, Muath A ; Islam, ASM, "INFECTION UNMASKING LIFE THREATENING VASCULITIS. ", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Kyaw, Phyo P; Milton, Scott, " WHEN IMMUNOCOMPETENT PATIENT NEEDS SURGERY FOR FUNGAL LUNG DISEASE", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Siddiqui, Shayan; Salagundla, Nethuja; Wan, Steven; Islam, ASM, "TRANSIENT GLOBAL
AMNESIA AND B12 DEFICIENCY; IS
THERE A RELATIONSHIP??", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018 - Malik, Muhammad; Naguib, Tarek, "DOXYCYCLINE ASSOCIATED OXALATE NEPHROPATHY", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Ashangari, Chandralekha; Qasim, Ahmed; Salagundla, Nethuja; Khandheria, Bharat, "WEARABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR (WCD) - A NOVEL TREATMENT OPTION IN THEPREVENTION OF SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Habib, Muhammad Farhan; Zheng, Danyi; Islam, ASM;Naguib, Tarek, "IS IT A MOLE? THINK AGAIN!", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Prystupa, Alena; Ahmed, Sarah; Urban, Robert S, "ACUTE CONFUSION AS A SEQUELA OF PEPTO-BISMOL TOXICITY", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Islam, Mohammad Kamrul; Islam, ASM; Vo, Thien, "COMPLICATED LUNG ABSCESS WITH EMPYEMA THORACIS IN AN ELDERLY PATIENT FROMPRIMARY DENTAL INFECTION", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Ahmed, Sarah; Kyaw, Phyo P; ngo, lylla; Garrido, Juan Pablo; Vo, Thien, "AN UNUSUAL COURSE OF A RECENTLY DIAGNOSED SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS (SLE)THROMBOTIC MICROANGIOPATHY", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Ashangari, Chandralekha; Qasim, Ahmed; Bharadwaj, Ravindra; Tumula, Praveen; Garrido, Juan Pablo, "DIFFUSE LARGE B-CELL LYMPHOMA INVOLVING LUNG PARENCHYMA", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Ashangari, Chandralekha; Salagundla, Nethuja; Siddiqui, Shayan; Garrido, Juan Pablo, "PYOGENIC GRANULOMA: RARE CAUSE OF GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Mirza, Asadullah; Salagundla, Nethuja; Garrido, Juan Pablo, "A “SCREWED UP” CASE OF HEMATEMESIS", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Mirza, Asadullah; Prakash, Sameer; Salagundla, Nethuja; Garrido, Juan Pablo, "COLLAGENOUS GASTRITIS A RARE AND UNDERDIAGNOSED ENTITY", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Mirza, Asadullah; Merza, Nooraldin; Garrido, Juan Pablo, "SPINAL INVOLVEMENT OF IGG4 SCLEROSING DISEASE: A DIAGNOSTIC CHALLENGE", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Ngo, lylla; Smalligan, Roger D; Islam, ASM, "COMPLICATED RECURRENT INTRA-ABDOMINAL ABSCESSES IN A PATIENT WITH FABRY DISEASE", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Alsharif, Muath A.; Ashangari, Chandralekha; Murray, Dylan; Murray, Richard, "PARTIAL ANOMALOUS PULMONARY VENOUS RETURN", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Islam, Mohammad Kamrul; Islam, ASM, "LATERAL MEDULLARY SYNDROME; RESULTING FROM UNEXPLAINED THROMBOCYTOSIS", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Qasim, A., Harper, D., Johnson, T., Patel, M., "Simple Gastrointestinal (GI) Bleed Turned Out To Be A Fistula From Heart: very rare presentation", Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, February 21-24, 2018
- Goldstein, A., Vo, Thien, Siddiqui, S, "Prasugrel and Alternative to Clopidogrel; In Patients with Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage and Coronary Artery Disease", American Thoracic Society International Conference, San Diego, CA, May 18-23, 2018
- Chandralekha Ashangari, Mohammad Islam, Luis Ruiz, Kaylee Shepherd, "When the Munchies Become Dangerous", Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO April 11-14, 2017
- Chandralekha Ashangari, Mohammad Islam, Juan Garrido,"Blurry vision in young patient is not always a refractive error", Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO April 11-14, 2017
- Assad Mohammedzein, Joshua Crane, Muhammad Habib, “Should such finding warrant more detailed workup for underlying malignancy?",Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO April 11-14, 2017
- Mohammad K. Islam, Sameer Alqassimi, Nethuja Salagundla, ASM ISLAM, “Confusion and Coagulopathy in an Elderly: Think Salicylate Toxicity!",Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO April 11-14, 2017
- Mohammad K. Islam, Chandralekha Ashanghari, Luis Ruiz, ASM ISLAM, “Parkinsonian Symptoms : A thought-provoking neurological consequence of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning!," Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO April 11-14, 2017
- Mohammad K. Islam, Praveen Tumula, Thien Vo1, Manish Patel, “An Unusual Presentation of Lung Adenocarcinoma in a 31 Year Old Hispanic Male.", Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO April 11-14, 2017
- AHMED TAHA, ASM ISLAM, Lusine Nahapetyan, Masoud A. AlZeerah, “Bubbles in the Box: A Case of Recurrent Pneumothorax from Bronchopleural Fistula (BPF) in a Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Patient", Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO April 11-14, 2017
- Sameer Prakash, Muhammad Malik, Kaylee Shepherd, Praveen Tumula, “A Light Chain-ge of Heart", Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO April 11-14, 2017
- Muhammad Habib, Danyi Zheng, Alexander Goldstein, Thien Vo,Manish Patel, “Antisynthetase syndrome: A rare cause of Interstitial Lung disease", Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO April 11-14, 2017
- Muhammad Habib, Danyi Zheng, Praveen Tumula, Nethuja Salagundla, Manish Patel, “Refractory Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura in a setting of Active Hepatitis C infection.", Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO April 11-14, 2017
- Anu S. Salwan, Sameer Prakash, Nethuja Salagundla, Tarek Naguib, Dylan Richard Murray, “Acute Unilateral Renal Vein Thrombosis in Otherwise Healthy Patient Using OCPs.",Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO April 11-14, 2017
- Muhammad Malik, Nooraldin Merza, Manish Patel, Thien Vo, “Legionella Myocarditis Presenting as Multiorgan Failure due to Cardiogenic Shock in Absence of Pneumonia", Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, Denver, CO April 11-14, 2017
- Smalligan RD, Pierce JR, Urban RS. Smalligan was author/editor of Chapters on Rheumatology, Nephrology, Endocrinology and co-editor of entire book, PreTest Medicine, 14th Edition, 2015, McGraw Hill Medical, New York. In Press.