Publications by authors named "Elise Landa"
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- * A 43-year-old man with a history of diabetes and hypertension showed symptoms of methemoglobinemia, including bluish discoloration of his fingers, after using the inhalant "Rush," leading to low oxygen saturation and elevated methemoglobin levels.
- * Treatment with methylene blue successfully resolved the patient’s symptoms, but resulted in green urine, highlighting the importance of thorough history taking and awareness of treatment side effects in managing inhalant-related cases.
Coxsackie B infections can have varying clinical presentations. Necrotizing myopathy and rhabdomyolysis with remarkably high creatine phosphokinase levels is a rare complication associated with high morbidity and mortality. A 28-year-old male presented with complaints of weakness, body aches, and decreased urine output.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation is considered the most common cardiac arrhythmias in the United States with rate and rhythm control strategies traditionally used for management. If patients are intolerant to class I or class III anti-arrhythmic medications, catheter ablation may be used as a rhythm control strategy. As catheter ablation becomes more commonplace, so too do the procedure-related complications, which include tamponade, total arterio-venous fistula, pulmonary vein stenosis, and atrial-esophageal fistula.
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