2013 Scholarly Activity

Publications

• ASEPHC meningitis rash and acute retention: a clue for diagnosis of West Nile Meningitis.

Publications

• The Utilization of Standardized Order Sets Using AASLD Guidelines for Patients with Suspected Cirrhosis and Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding. Qual Manag Health Care. 2013 Apr-Jun:22(2):146-51.
• Endoscopic ultrasound-guided versus conventional transmural techniques have comparable treatment outcomes in draining pancreatic pseudocysts. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012 Dec;24(12):1355-62.
• Progressive disseminated histoplasmosis in systemic lupus erythematosus-an unusual presentation of acute tenosynovitis and a literature review. Clin Rheumatol. 2013 Jan:32(1):135-9.

Presentations

•  Pulmonary Alveolar Proteniosis and Chronic Cotton Dust Exposure. Poster presented at: Southern Regional Meeting; New Orleans, LA, Feb 2011.
• Adult-onset Celiac Disease diagnosed after Pancreaticoduodenectomy for Duodenal Adenocarcinoma. Oral Presentation presented at: Southern Regional Meeting; New Orleans, LA, Feb 2011.
• Impact of Standardized Order Sets On Physicians' Adherence to AASLD Guidelines for Patients with Cirrhosis and Acute Gastrointestinal Bleeding. Poster presented at: DDW scientific meeting, Chicago, IL, May 2011.
• Diverticular Diseases in the Young: A Changing Trend in the past Decade. Poster presented at: ACG Scientific Meeting; Washington, DC, October 2011.
• Spiral Enteroscopy Performed after Capsule Endoscopy: Diagnostic Yield and Reproducibility. Poster presented at: ACG Scientific Meeting; Washington, DC, October 2011.
• Asymptomatic Mucinous Adenocarcinoma Detected by Screening Colonoscopy. Oral presentation presented at: Southern Regional Meeting; New Orleans, LA, February 2012.
• Acute Respiratory Failure in Chiari Malformation Type 1. Poster presented at: Southern Regional Meeting; New Orleans, LA, Feb 2012.
• Esophageal Capsule Endoscopy (ECE) for Chronic Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease - A 6-year Single Center Experience. Poster presented at: DDW; San Diego, CA, May 2012.
• Adherence to Colorectal Cancer Screening in Internal Medicine Resident Primary Clinic. Poster presented at: 2012 ACG Annual Scientific Meeting. Las Vegas, NV.
• Diverticulitis in the Young: Clinical Characteristics and Hospital Course. Poster presented at: 2012 ACG Annual Scientific Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.
• Book chapters: "Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding", Book Chapter. Gut Instincts: A Clinician's Handbook of Digestive and Liver Disease. Edited by Eric Esrailian. SLACK Inc, 2012.

Publications

• Keppra a magical antiepileptic medication, The Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles, 2013, 1(2):16-19.
• The association of alpha blockers and 5-alpha reductase inhibitors in benign prostate hyperplasia with fractures-A meta-analysis and systematic review of the literature, submitted to American Journal of Medical Science.
• Meningitis-retention syndrome as a presentation of West Nile virus meningitis, submitted to Journal of Investigative Medicine high impact case reports.

Presentations

• Post-intubation sore throat can become mishap. Southern Society for Clinical Investigation.
• The association of alpha blockers and 5-alpha reductase inhibitors in benign prostate hyperplasia with fractures-A meta-analysis and systematic review of the literature. Southern Society for Clinical Investigation.
• Colocephaly with agenesis of corpus callosum in adult presenting with frequent falls: Case report and review of literatures. American Neurological Association Annual Meeting, October.

Publications

• Reversible renal glycosuria in acute interstitial nephritis. Am J Med Sci 2012; 344(3):245-247.
• Factors affecting mortality in patients with COPD exacerbations requiring ICU admission. The Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles. 2013;1(2):3-10.
• Chiari Syndrome and Respiratory Failure a literature review. J Intensive Care Med 2013; 0885066613485213, first published April 12, 2013.
• Acute Kidney Injury and Rhabdomyolysis as an Initial Presentation of Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. The Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles 2013;1(2):35-38.
• Factors affecting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease early rehospitalization. Chron Respir Dis. 2013;9(2):93-8. Epub 2012 Mar 7.
• Is the sinonasal questionnaire a useful screening instrument for chronic sinonasal diseases in pulmonary clinics? Chron Respir Dis. 2013;10(2):95-98.
• Obscure Severe Infrarenal Aortoiliac Stenosis With Severe Transient Lactic Acidosis. Jour of Invest Med High Impact Case Reports. 2013;1(1).
  Cholestatic Jaundice as a Result of Combination Designer Supplementation. (Accepted)
• Factors influencing the length of hospital stay in patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease admitted to MICU. (Submitted to Journal of Investigative Medicine).

Presentations

• The study of risk factors for severe hypoglycemia in adult diabetic patient in emergency room, Siriraj Hospital. Emergency Medicine Society Thailand Bangkok, March 2010.
• Pulmonary Leukostatis With Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Clinical Presentation of Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Poster presented at: Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Feb 2011.
• Reversible renal glycosuria in acute interstitial nephritis. Oral presentation: Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Feb 2011.
• Monitoring Sedation in The Intensive Care Unit Using Actigraphy. Poster presented at: American Thoracic Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA, May 2011.
• Steroids induce hyperglycemia in Patients with Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Oral presentation: Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Feb 2011.
• Is the Sinonasal Questionnaire a useful screening instrument for chronic sinonasal diseases in pulmonary clinics? Oral presentation: Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Feb 2011.
• Factors affecting mortality in COPD exacerbations in ICU patients. Poster presented at: American Thoracic Society, San Francisco, CA, May 2012.
• Case report: Kawasaki Disease and Possible Risk of Peripheral Arterial Disease. Poster presented at: Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Feb 2012.
• Predicting Length of Stay in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations Admitted to Intensive Care Unit.  Oral presentation at: Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Feb 2012.
• Factors affecting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease early rehospitalization.  American Thoracic Society, San Francisco, CA, May 2012.
• Acute diverticulitis with eosinophilia masqueraded by strongyloides stercolaris infestation. Journal of Investigative Medicine 2012; 60(1):365.
• Transthoracic echocardiography versus Right-Sided Heart Catheterization. Crit Care Med 2011; 39(12):57.
• Pulmonary rehabilitation improves quality of life measured by SF-36 questionnaire. Journal of Investigative Medicine 2013; 61(2). Poster presented at: Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Feb 2013.
• The association between glucose levels and hospital outcomes in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Jour of Invest Med 2013; 61(2).
• Factor associated with reintubation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Jour of Invest Med 2013; 61(2).
• Post-intubation sore throat can become mishap? Jour of Invest Med 2013; 61(2).
• Severe leg pain and profound reversible acidemia. Jour of Invest Med 2013; 61(2).
• Pulmonary rehabilitation increases gait speed in patients with chronic lung diseases. Jour of Invest Med 2013; 61(2).

Book Chapters

• "COPD in older patients". Case Files Geriatrics Book. Publisher McGraw-hill Medical; 1st Edition ISBN-10: 007177078X (publication January 2014).

Publications

• Clinical performance of a handheld digital infrared monocular pupillometer for measurement of the dark-adapted pupil diameter. Jour of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. 2010 Feb; 36(2):277-81.
• Dark-Adapted Pupil Diameter as a Function of Age Measured with the NeurOptics Pupillometer. Jour of Refractive Surgery. 2010 May 27:1-6.
• The effect of gender and iris color on the dark-adapted pupil diameter. Jour of Ocular Pharm and Therapeu. 2010 Aug, 26(4):225-40.

Book Chapters

• Case Files. "Anemia". To be published Summer 2012.

Publications

• Factors affecting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease early rehospitalization. Chron Respir Dis. 2012 May;9(2):93-8.
• Obscure Severe Infrarenal Aortoiliac Stenosis with Severe Transient Lactic Acidosis. Journ of Invest Med High Impact Case Reports. Jan-Mar 2013: 1-5.
• Renal infarction as a presentation of Austrian syndrome: thromboembolic phenomenon of pneumococcal endocarditis. Am J Med Sci. 2012 Sep; 344(3):251-4.
• Effects of Alcohol and Illicit Substance Consumption in Patients with Infective Endocarditis. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly. 2013 Jan; 31(1):150-160.
• Atrial Fibrillation in the Elderly. Drugs Aging. DOI 10.1007/s4066-013-0094-8.

Presentations

• Pitfall delaying in the diagnosis of cardiovascular implantable electronic device-related endocarditis in the intensive care unit patient. Jour of Invest Med 2012;60(1):3-4. Oral presentation at: Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA - Feb, 2012.
• Add up the numbers, find the lesion. Jour of Invest Med 2012;60(1):5. Oral presentation at: Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA - Feb, 2012.
  Technique and procedural outcome of percutaneous coronary intervention for chronic total occlusion. Poster presented at: International Academy of Cardiology 17th World Congress on Heart Disease, Toronto, ON, Canada - July 2012.
• Collagen and 8-isoprostane are key factors of enhanced platelet aggregability observed in patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention. Supplement to J Am Coll Cardiol. 2012;59:A13.
• Factors predicting length of stay in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations admitted to intensive care. Jour of Invest Med 2012;60(1):144.
• Factors contributing to insufficient therapeutic response to clopidogel. ASAIO Journal:58(3):39, May/June 2012.
• Factors affecting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease early rehospitalization. Poster presented at: ATS International Conference in San Francisco, CA - May, 2012.
• Severe leg pain and profound reversible academia. Poster presented at: Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA - Feb, 2013.
• The association between glucose levels and hospital outcomes in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Poster presented at: Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA - Feb, 2013.
• Factor associated with reintubation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Poster presented at: Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Feb, 2013.

Book Chapter

•  Hypertension in the very elderly. Case Files Geriatrics. 2014 Jan.

Publications

• Endoscopic ultrasound-guided versus conventional transmural techniques have comparable treatment outcomes in draining pancreatic pseudocysts. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2012 Dec;24(12):1355-1362.

Presentations

• Portal Vein Thrombosis in Splenctomized Cirrhotic Patient: A Case Report. Poster presented at: American College of Gastroenterology meeting 2012; Las Vegas, NV.
• Case Series: Heterotopic Gastric Tissues of the Duodenal Bulb Present as Duodenal Polyps. Oral presentation presented at: Southern Society for Clinical Investigation meeting 2012; New Orleans, LA.
• Endoscopic ultrasound-guided versus conventional transmural drainage of pancreatic pseudocyst: A meta-analysis. Poster presented at: Digestive Disease Week meeting 2011; Chicago, IL.
• Avulsed internal bumpter of PEG tube causing small bowel obstruction: A case report in elderly patient with intractable achalasia cardia. Poster presented at: Southern Society for Clinical Investigation meeting 2011; New Orleans, LA.

Publications

• Multiple modes of transmission of Giardiasis in primary school children of a rural community, Thailand. Amer Jour of Trop Med. 2008 Aug; 78(4):611-615.
• Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysm seen on Blood Pool Study. Clin Nucl Med. 2012 Jan;38(1):e43-4.
• Renal infarct as a presentation of Austrian syndrome: thromboembolic phenomenon of pneumococcal endocarditis. Am J Med Sci. 2012 Sep;344(3):251-4.
• Leg Pain and Profound Reversible Acidemia. Acceped and will be published in Journal of ICU.

Presentations

• Collagen and 8-isoprostane Are key Factors of Enhanced Platelet Aggregability Observed in Patients Who Underwent Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Poster presented at: American College of Cardiology Meeting 2012, Chicago, IL.
• "Alexia without agraphia" and a possible extended visual pathway: a case report and review of literature. Oral presentation presented at: Southern Regional Meeting 2012, New Orleans, LA.
• Pericardial Tamponade as initial presentation of acute leukemia. Oral presentation presented at: Southern Regional Meeting 2011, New Orleans, LA.
• Factors Contributing to Insufficient Therapeutic response to Clopidogrel Antiplatelet therapy in PCI patients. Poster presented at: 58th Annual Conference of ASAIO, San Francisco.
• Predictors of Early Readmission for Congestive Heart Failure in West Texas Population. Poster presented at: TTUHSC Student Research Week, Lubbock, TX March 2013.
• 3-year average score of IM-ITE, A Better Predictor for American Board of Internal Medicine Certification Examination Outcome. Submitted to Academic Internal Medicine Week 2013.

Publications

• Duodenal diffuse large B cell lymphoma. Journal of Investigative Medicine. 61(2) Feb 2013; 407.
• Osteopoikilosis mimicking osseous metastases in a patient with stage 1 renal carcinoma. Journal of Investigative Medicine. 61(2) Feb 2013; 409.
  False positive HIV antibody test in a patient with T cell lymphoma; Journal of Investigative Medicine. 61(2) Feb 2013; 408.
• Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. Neurology: Clinical Practice. Dec 2012 (2):356-358.
• Effects of alcohol and illicit substance consumption on patients with infective endocarditis. Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 2013; 31:150-160.
  Management of Anaphylaxis Due to Plastic Endotracheal Tube Chest. 2012; 142:315A.
• Factors Affecting Mortality in COPD Exacerbation in ICU Patients. ATS Journals, 2012. 185.1_MeetingAbstracts.A3042.
• Severe pemphigus erythematosus resistant to systemic corticosteroid therapy. Journal of Investigative Medicine 60(1) Jan 2012; 361.
• Hepatitis C related polyclonal hypergammaglobulinemia associated with acute kidney injury. Journal of Investigative Medicine 60(1) Jan 2012; 366.
• Challenges in diagnosis of HCV associated mixed cryoglobulinemia. Journal of Investigative Medicine 60(1) Jan 2012; 367.
• Atypical presentation of reactive arthritis following an outbreak of Salmonella Enterica. Journal of Investigative Medicine 60(1) Jan 2012; 197.
• Early Detection and Diagnosis of Pulmonary Hypertension: Transthoracic echocardiography verus Right-Sided Heart Catheterization. Crit Care Med 2011 39(12) 225.
• Sudden death in epilepsy (SUDEP). Crit Care Med 2011 39(12) 939.
  Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patient with Metabolic Syndrome: The American Journal of Gastroenterology (Supp), 2011; 499.
• Acute flaccid paralysis and myositis in summer. Journal of Invest Med. 2011; 59:438.

Presentations

• Duodenal diffuse large B cell lymphoma. Southern Regional Meeting Feb 2013.
• Osteopoikilosis mimicking osseous metastases in a patient with stage 1 renal cell carcinoma. Southern Regional Meeting Feb 2013.
• False positive HIV antibody test in a patient with T cell lymphoma; Southern Regional Meeting Feb 2013.