Inpatient Outcomes of Gastric Antral Vascular Ectasia in Those With Aortic Stenosis: A Retrospective Study of 85,000 Hospitalizations.

Goals: To investigate the outcomes of hospitalized patients with gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) in the setting of aortic stenosis (AS).

Background: Although AS is associated with gastrointestinal arteriovenous malformations, its association with GAVE, a rare cause of upper gastrointestinal bleeding, remains unknown.

Study: The National Inpatient Sample database from the years 2016 to 2019 was searched for patients admitted with a diagnosis of GAVE, with and without a history of AS.

Post-Intensive Care Syndrome Among Survivors in a Safety Net Hospital in South Bronx: A Comparison of Patients With and Without Coronavirus Disease 2019.

Comparison of post-intensive care syndrome between critically ill survivors with or without coronavirus disease 2019 (CovP and CovN, respectively) showed that fewer CovP were able to return to work full time at >1 year and none at <1 year after discharge and that the majority of CovP survivors were able to work part time during both evaluation periods compared to CovN.

Vanishing Lung Syndrome, or Idiopathic Giant Bullous Emphysema, with Pneumothorax, and Subcutaneous Emphysema in a 58-Year-Old Female Smoker with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

BACKGROUND Vanishing lung syndrome (VLS), also known as idiopathic giant bullous emphysema, is a rare manifestation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and usually occurs in middle-aged smokers. This report presents a 58-year-old female smoker with COPD and VLS who presented with spontaneous pneumothorax. The pneumothorax was managed with a chest tube and was later complicated by massive subcutaneous emphysema.

Effect of Hospital Teaching Status on Mortality and Procedural Complications of Percutaneous Paracentesis in the United States: A Four-Year Analysis of the National Inpatient Sample.

Objectives Numerous previous studies investigated the impact of medical training settings on outcomes of hospitalized patients. However, the impact of teaching hospital status on outcomes of percutaneous paracentesis, to the best of our knowledge, has never been studied before. Methods Hospitalized patients who underwent percutaneous paracentesis were identified from the National Inpatient Sample database from 2016 to 2019 across the United States (US) teaching and non-teaching hospitals.