Publications by authors named "Carsten Steinmetz"
Background Patient falls are a common inpatient dilemma and comprise the largest category of preventable adverse events in hospitalized patients. These events place a clinical burden on the patient, such as increased morbidity and reduced quality of life, in addition to an economic burden on the hospital system. Fall prevention strategies have the opportunity to decrease inpatient health care costs and length of stay.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This study asked whether, if provided with education on heart-healthy habits, elementary school children in Abbeville, Greenwood, and Saluda counties in South Carolina would retain and desire to implement healthy nutrition and increased exercise. We hypothesized that teaching children about heart-healthy habits would increase their activity levels and improve their desire to be active.
Methods: This was a longitudinal survey study.
Article Synopsis
- Eruptive sebaceous hyperplasia (ESH) is a benign skin condition marked by rapid growth of sebaceous glands, mainly on the face, and may be linked to medications and genetics rather than just cyclosporine use.
- The case presented discusses a renal transplant patient who developed ESH after undergoing a combination of immunosuppressive therapies, including tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil, and prednisone, years after starting cyclosporine.
- The study aims to raise awareness about the potential complications of multimodal immunosuppressive therapy for renal transplant patients, encouraging better informed treatment decisions among patients and healthcare providers.*
Purpose: To describe the clinical course and microbial properties of the first two reported cases of nutritionally variant Streptococci ( and ) endophthalmitis following intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor injection (IVI).
Observations: A 74 year-old female developed endophthalmitis following IVI. The patient underwent a pars plana vitrectomy and visual acuity recovered to 20/30 in six weeks.