American Journal of Medicine

Article	Citations
In General, We Are Defined More by Our Response to Defeat, Than the Defeat Itself	521
Prosthetic Joint Infections of the Hip and Knee Among the Elderly: A Retrospective Study	125
The Sixth Row on the Left: A Reflection on Medicine Grand Rounds	111
The Reply	96
Avoid Advanced Dementia with an Advance Directive for Stopping Eating and Drinking	91
Evoking Dante Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic	87
Narrative Competency: The Healing Potential of Storytelling	73
Infective Endocarditis: An Update	73
Subcutaneous B-Cell Lymphoproliferative Disorder Mimicking Lipodystrophy	72
Erratum to ‘Ten Traits of Great Physicians! And Tips to Help You Improve’ [The American Journal of Medicine (2023) Volume 136, Issue 4, Pages 355-359]	66
An Unusual Case of Nocardia Breast Abscess	53
Table of Contents	53
Suggestions for Remaining Calm and Balanced During High Stress Times	51
Adverse Events After Initiating Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor/Angiotensin II Receptor Blocker Therapy in Individuals with Heart Failure and Multimorbidity	50
Is it Time to Set a 25% Decrease in eGFR as Criteria for Community-Acquired Acute Kidney Injury in Primary Care Clinics?	49
Looking Beyond LinkedIn: The Case for Excellence and Academic Rigor in Quality and Safety Programs	49
Primary Medical Care Integrated with Healthy Eating and Healthy Moving is Essential to Reduce Chronic Kidney Disease Progression	47
Parasitic Infestation Presenting as Advanced Infiltrating Tumor Mimicking Adrenal Cancer	45
Teaching Leadership…More than Just White Men	45
Management of Hospitalized Kidney Transplant Recipients for Hospitalists and Internists	43
Aspergillus Brain Abscess in a Patient with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus	43
Making the Heart Grow Stronger: Reversal of Dilated Cardiomyopathy in an Elderly Patient	42
Structural Cardiac Abnormalities in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation/Flutter and Myocardial Injury	41
In Plain Sight: An Inconspicuous Case of a Giant Cell Tumor	41
Treatment of Drug-Induced Dermatitis and Itching with Diclofenac Gel	41

Long-Term Cardiac Monitoring After Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source: Search Longer, Look Harder	41
Idiopathic Axillary Web Syndrome	40
Turn Healthcare Workers Loose with Outpatient Telemedicine—Let Them Decide Its Fate; No Top-Down Decisions on What It Can and Cannot Do	39
Insight Regarding Solving the Current Physician Shortage	38
A Bleeding GIST Managed with Octreotide	38
Fulminating Lymphocytic Myocarditis and Its Mimics	38
Evolving Trends in US Mortality from Opioid Overdose: Heroin and Beyond	37
Troubling Tenosynovitis: When a Serious Sign Persists	36
Running on Empty: A Source for Multiple Nonspecific Symptoms	36
Clinical Efficacy of Tixagevimab/Cilgavimab Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in Immunocompromised Patients Treated During Omicron Sublineages Diffusion. Real-Life Experience from ASST Lecco	36
Facial Swelling and Pancytopenia: First Features and Clues to the Etiology of Acute Kidney Injury.	35
Utility of a Diagnostic Time-Out to Evaluate an Atypical Pneumonia	34
Added Prognostic Value of Plaque Burden to Computed Tomography Angiography and Myocardial Perfusion Imaging in Patients with Diabetes	34
Initiation of Anti-Hypertensive Drugs and Outcomes in Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction	34
A ‘Rule of Thumb’ Aids Evaluation of Severe Hypercholesterolemia to Recognize Familial Hypercholesterolemia	33
An Infrequently Witnessed Case of Colitis	32
Medical Jeopardy Quiz: Medicinal Plants	32
Factors Associated With Long COVID: Insights From Two Nationwide Surveys	31
Practice for Real Life: Diversifying Cases in Educational Conferences	30
The Reply	29
Combined Sodium-Glucose-Transporters Inhibitors and Glucagon-Like-Peptide Receptor Agonist Compared With Monotherapy Improves Long-Term Survival: A Real-World Registry	29
The Unique Fusion: Systemic Sclerosis and Ankylosing Spondylitis Overlap	28
Caring for Hospitalized Adults with Methamphetamine Use Disorder: A Proposed Clinical Roadmap	27
Popeye Deformity: A Red Flag for Wild-Type Transthyretin Amyloidosis	26
The Grade Debate: Evidence, Knowledge Gaps, and Perspectives on Clerkship Assessment Across the UME to GME Continuum	26
Population Decline in COPD Admissions During the COVID-19 Pandemic Associated with Lower Burden of Community Respiratory Viral Infections	25
Retraction notice to ‘Combined Therapy With Estrogen and Etidronate has an Additive Effect on Bone Mineral Density in the Hip and Vertebrae: Four-Year Randomized Study’ [The American Journal of Medici	25
Mycoplasma Pneumoniae-Associated Reactive Infectious Mucocutaneous Eruption Sine Rash	24
Trichuris trichiura: A Moving Source of Anemia	24
Improving the OTC Drug Approval Process: A Public Health Priority	24
Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw: A Cross-Sectional Study on the Prevalence of Cutaneous Manifestations and the Primary Care Physician's Role in its Early Diagnosis	24
Bacteremia, Liver Injury, and Pneumonitis: Strongyloides Unleashed by a Supplement	24
Turning Positive: Normal Aging and The Review of Systems	23
Lumbar Disc Herniation: Diagnosis and Management	23
The Prognosis of Myocardial Calcification and Some Other Issues	23
A Rare Case of Stiff Person Syndrome: From Spasms to Bedbound	23
The Reply	22
Practice-Changing Updates in Perioperative Medicine Literature 2020-2021: A Systematic Review	22
Table of Contents	22
Misconceptions and Facts about Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction	22
Is Retirement Meant for You?	22
Heads-Up! A Caregiver's Perspective on Lewy Body Dementia	22
Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorders Mimicking Wernicke Encephalopathy	21
Transfiguration of Academic Departments of Medicine	21
An Unusually Rapid-Onset Portal Hypertension	21
Icosapent Ethyl for Primary Versus Secondary Prevention of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Hypertriglyceridemia: Value for Money Analysis	20
Perioperative Antiplatelet Strategy in Patients Undergoing Noncardiac Surgery Within One Year After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention	20
Paxlovid: A Regulatory Gamble	20
Syndrome of Nonobstructive Coronary Artery Diseases: A Comprehensive Overview of Open Artery Ischemia	20
Septic Arthritis of the Costovertebral Joint Mimicking Shingles	20

Addressing COVID Vaccine Hesitancy and Its Impact on Road Crashes	19
Medical Aphorisms Redux	19
Association of Sedentary Lifestyle with Risk of Acute and Post-Acute COVID-19 Sequelae: A Retrospective Cohort Study	19
Evaluation and Management Strategies for GI Involvement with Amyloidosis	19
Call for a New Medical Fellowship	19
A Case of Bone-Eroding Mycobacterium avium Complex Infection Secondary to Prolonged Infliximab Use	19
Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Obese Patients with Venous Thromboembolism: Results of an Expert Consensus Panel	19
Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients with Nonrheumatic Streptococcal Pharyngitis-Associated Myocarditis	19
Navigating the Shadows: COVID-19′s Lingering Threat – Pulmonary Fibrosis	18
Acute Abdominal Pain Caused by Internal Oblique Muscle Rupture	18
Impact of Unhealthy Lifestyles on Patients with Atrial Fibrillation at Low Risk of Stroke: A Nationwide Cohort Study	18
When Crouching Gait Reveals Crohn's Disease	17
Adult Scaphoid Abdomen	17
The Reply	17
Myocardial Perfusion and Viability Imaging in Coronary Artery Disease: Clinical Value in Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Therapeutic Guidance	17
Appropriately Targeting Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation to Maximize Benefits in Older Adults	17
The Ultrasound Hepato-Jugular Reflux: Measuring the Hepato-Jugular Reflux with Ultrasound with Comparison to Invasive Right Heart Catheterization	17
Nonketotic Hyperglycemic Hemichorea	16
Hyperfibrinolysis: An Uncommon Cause of Bleeding in Cirrhosis	16
Adrenal Insufficiency Revealing a Bilateral Adrenal Hemorrhage-Adrenal Infarction Related to Antiphospholipid Syndrome	16
Delayed Onset Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia Presenting as Fever of Unknown Origin	16
Effect of Dexamethasone on Myocardial Injury After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Substudy of the Randomized Clinical DEX-2-TKA Trial	16
Shoring Up Vaccine Efficacy	16
Massive Vulvar Edema: A Sign of Nephrotic Syndrome	16
Two Months, Eight Chinese Physicians Suffered Sudden Death	16
A Threat to Military Combat Power: Dietary Supplements	16
Silent Brain Infarction – Time for Changing the Paradigm?	16
The Reply	15
The Reply	15
Older Age as a Predictive Risk Factor for Acute Mountain Sickness	15
Limited English Proficiency in Older Adults Referred to the Cardiovascular Team	15
Unmasking a Vulnerable Patient Care Process: A Qualitative Study Describing the Current State of Resident Continuity Clinic in a Nationwide Cohort of Internal Medicine Residency Programs	15
Timeless Caves, Sacred Spaces, Cardiology Clinics	15
Naloxone Over the Counter: Increasing Opportunities and Challenges for Health Providers	15
Gnosticism, Wittgenstein, and the Language of Medicine	15
Risk vs Benefits of Thiazides in Clinical Use: Need for a Holistic Approach	14
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Ankle Arthritis and Subsequent Immune-Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome	14
Blood Pressure/Heart Rate-Derived Ratios as Indices of Health and Cardiovascular Pathology	14
Environmental Neurotoxins and a Neurodegenerative Outbreak: Diagnosis Requires Specific Sampling Knowledge	14
Renal Artery Denervation for the Management of Hypertension: Current Trends and Future Direction	14
The Reply	14
The Clinical Paradox	14
Lifestyle Approach and Medical Therapy of Lower Extremity Peripheral Artery Disease	14
In the Pursuit of Immortality, Who is Sitting at the Table?	14
Oral Rehydration Solution: A Landmark Discovery in Medicine and the Legacy of Dr. Dilip Mahalanabis	13
Using SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Testing in COVID-19 Research	13
Immunizations, Autism, and Statistical Analysis	13
The combination of afternoon and midnight salivary cortisol improves the diagnosis of Cushing’s syndrome	13
Terry's Nails Due to Uncontrolled Diabetes Mellitus	13
Nutrition on the United States Medical Licensing Step 1 Exam: A 'Low-Yield' Topic?	13
Hospital-Acquired Anemia in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome: Epidemiology and Potential Impact on Long-Term Outcome	13
The Potential Influence of Firearm Violence on Physical Inactivity in the United States	13
Emphysematous Cystitis Detected by Point-of-Care Ultrasound	13
Table of Contents	13
Face Off: 3D-Printed Masks as a Cost-Effective and Reusable Alternative to N95 Respirators: A Feasibility Study	13
Predicting Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias in Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation	13
A Hidden Challenge: Tongue Abscess Inducing Trismus in an Older Woman	12
Recent Thoughts Concerning Atrial Fibrillation	12
Coagulative Biomarkers Differently Predict Clinical Outcomes in Invasive Infections Caused by Neisseria Meningitidis and Streptococcus Pneumoniae	12
Voices for Social Justice and Against Racism: An AAIM Perspective	12
Which Was the Real Guilty Party: Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus pseudintermedius, Pasteurella multocida or All of Them?	12
Terminological Insights in Ludwig Angina: Evaluating Pseudo Tongue, Double Tongue, and Ludwig Sign	12
The Road Warrior	12
Remembering the White Rose: How a Group of Medical Students Took on Hitler	12
Improvement in Endothelial Function in Men Taking Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Inhibitors for Erectile Dysfunction	12
On Hoofs and Zebras – Struma Ovarii	12
Intravascular Large B Cell Lymphoma as a Cause of Multifocal Cryptogenic Stroke	12
Applying the ABCs of Cardiovascular Disease Prevention to the 2023 AHA/ACC Multisociety Chronic Coronary Disease Guidelines	12
An Updated Review of the Efficacy and Safety of Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Treatment of Left Ventricular Thrombus	12
Multicancer Early detection Panels (MCEDs) in the Primary Care Setting	12
Critical Care Exposure and Preparedness Among Internal Medicine Residents: Results from the American College of Physicians In-Training Exam Survey	12
Medical Jeopardy Quiz: Infections and Cancer	12
Recurrent Painless Orogenital Ulcers for Two Decades	12
Behind the Mirror	12
The Reply	11
Psoas Abscess as a Complication of a Perinephric Abscess	11
Corrigendum to ‘Effect of Inpatient Medication-Assisted Therapy on Against-Medical-Advice Discharge and Readmission Rates’ (2020) 1343-1349	11
A Cat-and-Mouse Game? Multiple Abscesses Due to Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia	11
A Treacherous Twist on ECG	11
The Reply	11

Ghost of Summer, 1988	11
Understanding Antiarrhythmic Drug Efficacy for the Clinical Practitioner: There Is More than Meets the Eye	11
Regarding the Surgical Management of Vertebral Compression Fractures	11
Wooden Toothpick and Pancreatitis	11
Selective Screening for Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis: An Appraisal of the 2024 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines Position	10
The PAX LC Trial: A Decentralized, Phase 2, Randomized, Double-Blind Study of Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir Compared with Placebo/Ritonavir for Long COVID	10
National Adherence to Medical Management of Aortic Aneurysms	10
Variations on a Theme	10
Elevated International Normalized Ratio and Mortality in Hospitalized Patients Treated with Direct Oral Anticoagulants	10
Characteristics and Diagnostic Challenge of Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody Positive Infective Endocarditis	10
When to Suspect and How to Approach a Diagnosis of Amyloidosis	10
It’s not Always Molluscum: A Case of Disseminated Cryptococcosis	10
Patient-Tailored Interventions to Improve Specialty Medication Adherence: Results from a Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial	10
Bridging the Gap in Competency Assessment During Transition from Undergraduate Medical Education to Graduate Medical Education: A Perspective Piece	10
Human Immortality: The Quest for Permanence	10
The Importance of Early Recognition of KSHV-Mediated Syndromes: A Case Report	10
A Possible Reversible Cause of Cognitive Impairment: Undiagnosed Cirrhosis and Potential Hepatic Encephalopathy in Patients with Dementia	10
Retraction notice to ‘Homocysteine as A Predictive Factor for Hip Fracture in Elderly Women With Parkinson’s Disease’ [The American Journal of Medicine 118 (2005) 1250-1255]	10
Risk of Severe COVID-19 in Prevalent Users of Alpha-1 Adrenergic Receptor Antagonists: A National Case-Control Study of Medicare Beneficiaries	10
Lying to Patients – Is It Ever Ethical?	10
New Clinical and Public Health Challenges in Vaccinations in US Adults	10
Table of Contents	10
Examining Well-Being and Cognitive Function in People With Long COVID and ME/CFS, and Age-Matched Healthy Controls: A Case-Case-Control Study	9
Presentation, Treatment, and Outcomes of Older Adults Hospitalized for Acute Myocardial Infarction According to Cognitive Status: The SILVER-AMI Study	9
To See or Not to See: Blind Auditions and What Academic Medicine Can Learn from Music	9
Combined therapy with estrogen and etidronate has an additive effect on bone mineral density in the hip and vertebrae: Four-year randomized study	9
Microwaving Food in Plastic Containers	9
The Reply	9
Look Past Stubborn	9
The Reply	9
Nineteen-Year Trends in Mortality of Patients Hospitalized in the United States with High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism	9
Relationship Between Marijuana Use and Overactive Bladder (OAB): A Cross-Sectional Research of NHANES 2005 to 2018	9
Hemothorax and Bloody Ascites Caused by Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome	9
Medicine and Music – Is There a Connection?	9
Beyond Skin and Nails: The Hidden Dangers of Biotin Supplementation	9
Justice-Involved Status and In-Hospital Mortality Among Nonelderly Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2021	9
Fingertip Calcinosis Cutis	9
Do We Need Fasting Prior to Coronary Angiography? The CORO-NF Randomized Pragmatic Study	9
Table of Contents	9
Socioeconomic deprivation, unhealthy lifestyle, and premature mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes: A population-based longitudinal study	9
A Trip to Egypt: De-Nile	9
An Unusual Case of Sarcoidosis: Hypercalcemia and Normal Sized Lymph Nodes	9
How Closely Does Internal Medicine Residency Program Director Protected Time Align with the Expected Amount?	9
Corrigendum to ‘Elevated NT-ProBNP as a Cardiovascular Disease Risk Equivalent: Evidence from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study’	9
Long COVID: Does It Exist? What Is It? We Can We Do For Sufferers?	9
Human Papillomavirus as Nontraditional Cardiovascular Risk Factor: Fact or Fiction? Part 2	9
Table of Contents	9
Temporal Trends in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Multimorbidity Prevalence in the United States, 1999-2018	9
Optimism and Cardiovascular Events: One Issue to be Considered	8
Atrial Fibrillation: Is Rhythm Control Required, and If So, How, and What Is the Internist's Role?	8
Predicting When Women Will Achieve Equitable Representation in Four Specialties: The WHEN Study	8
Revisiting ACCORD: Should Blood Pressure Targets in People With and Without Type 2 Diabetes Be Different?	8
Legionella Pneumonia in a Patient on a Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Inhibitor	8
An Urticarial Rash, Fevers, and Arthralgias	8
Advancing Best Practices for Hospitalized Patients with a Volunteer Addiction Consult Team	8
It Was the Aorta but Not a Dissection: Intramural Aorta Hematoma	8
Beneficial and Harmful Effects of Monoclonal Antibodies for the Treatment and Prophylaxis of COVID-19: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	8
Correlation of Pyuria and Bacteriuria in Acute Care	8
Reduced left ventricular apical rotation: a novel pathophysiological correlate underlining acute ischemic mitral regurgitation	8
Low Prevalence of Vaccination or Documented Immunity to Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B Viruses Among Individuals with Chronic Liver Disease	8
Emphysematous Cystitis and Pyelitis	8
Trending Nutrition Controversies #3: Top Controversies in 2021	8
Dramatic Hyperhidrosis, Labile Blood Pressure, and Fever Associated With Thymoma	8
Erasmus Syndrome. An Exceptional Case	8
Comments on ‘Coffee Bean Sign Detected by Visual Inspection’	8
Lung Abscess in Adult with Foreign Body (Tooth)	8
A Case of Recurrent Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy	8
Ramadan Intermittent Fasting, Physical Activity, and COVID-19 Pandemic in Patients with Chronic Diseases	8
A Cerebrospinal Case of Dyspnea	8
Inaccuracy of Initial Clinical Mobility Assessment in Venous Thromboembolism Risk Stratification	8
Lung, Brain, and Spinal Cord Abscesses After a Near-Drowning Episode	8
The Reply	7
Palpable Pulsus Paradoxus in Primary Care Clinic	7
Systemic Amyloidosis: Is It ATTR or AL?	7
Mentoring Minorities: Five Foundational Lessons	7
‘Bowel Prep Hyponatremia’ Unmasking Underlying Adrenal Insufficiency	7
Could Tricuspid Valve Endocarditis Be the Source of Septic Pulmonary Embolism?	7
Corrigendum to ‘Integrating Coronary Atherosclerosis Burden and Progression with Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factors to Guide Therapeutic Decision Making’ The American Journal of Medicine 136:03 (202	7
Honoring Medicine's Fathers	7
Consider the Early Diagnosis of Melanoma in Foot Examinations of Older Adults	7
Sarcoidosis or Crohn Disease: Diagnostic Dilemma	7
The Gastrointestinal Risks of Combining NSAIDs and Endurance Exercise	7
Testosterone Replacement Therapy Causing Extensive Portal and Mesenteric Vein Thrombosis	7
The Reluctant Patient and the Insistent Doctor	7
Lupus Vulgaris	7
How Does Sauna Bathing Improve Respiratory Tract Function?	7
En Coup de Sabre and Terry's Nail: Rare Cutaneous Manifestations of Mixed Connective Tissue Disease	7
Pimping Socrates	7
A Calcified Liver Mass	7
Practice Changing Updates in Perioperative Medicine Literature 2022. A Systematic Review	7
The Reply	7
Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease – Evolving Concepts with Clinical Relevance	7
An Isolated Kaposi's Sarcoma of the Tongue in an HIV-Negative Patient	7
The Reply	7
Above the Threshold Time of Coagulation: Delayed Diagnosis of Acquired Hemophilia A	7