Phospholamban Cardiomyopathy Leading to Advanced Heart Failure in an Active Duty Service Member.

A phospholamban mutation is a rare genetic cause of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Our case describes a young service member who presented with advanced heart failure and was found to have a familial DCM from an autosomal dominant phospholamban mutation. He ultimately underwent a successful heart transplant just 23 days after his initial presentation.

Data Sharing of Imaging in an Evolving Health Care World: Report of the ACR Data Sharing Workgroup, Part 2: Annotation, Curation, and Contracting.

A core principle of ethical data sharing is maintaining the security and anonymity of the data, and care must be taken to ensure medical records and images cannot be reidentified to be traced back to patients or misconstrued as a breach in the trust between health care providers and patients. Once those principles have been observed, those seeking to share data must take the appropriate steps to curate the data in a way that organizes the clinically relevant information so as to be useful to the data sharing party, assesses the ensuing value of the data set and its annotations, and informs the data sharing contracts that will govern use of the data. Embarking on a data sharing partnership engenders a host of ethical, practical, technical, legal, and commercial challenges that require a thoughtful, considered approach.

Novel Internal Medicine Residency Ultrasound Curriculum Led by Critical Care and Emergency Medicine Staff.

Introduction: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is an integral aspect of critical care and emergency medicine curriculums throughout the country, but it has been slow to integrate into internal medicine residency programs. POCUS has many benefits for internal medicine providers, guiding diagnostic decisions and aiding in procedures. Additionally, POCUS is a convenient and portable resource specifically for internal medicine providers in the military when practicing in deployed or critical care settings.