Racial equity in and through medical interaction scholarship: A scoping review.

Objective: We conducted a systematic scoping review to characterize the landscape of communication scholarship within racial health equity in and through the patient-provider interaction.

Methods: We employed three waves of data collection to identify relevant articles (N = 454) about racial equity within provider-patient interactions. We iteratively developed a codebook concerning article characteristics, coding for journal names, data source, descriptive characteristics for the study samples, and presence of theory and equity in sections of the manuscripts.

Primary purulent bacterial pericarditis due to in the absence of an esophago-pericardial fistula.

Purulent bacterial pericarditis is a rare and progressive infection with a high mortality. It is rarely due to , a commensal bacteria found in the oral cavity, gastrointestinal tract, and the genitourinary tract. Here we present a 71-year-old man with history of esophageal adenocarcinoma, status post distal esophagectomy and proximal gastrectomy 2 years prior, who developed cardiac tamponade secondary to primary purulent bacterial pericarditis in the absence of an esophago-pericardial fistula.

The phenotypic spectrum of syndromic optic atrophy associated with variants in : with reclassification of p.Val606Gly as a likely benign variant.

Introduction: Wolfram syndrome due to bi-allelic variants in and mono-allelic Wolfram-like syndrome have variable ocular and syndromic associations. In this report, eight patients are described.

Methods: A retrospective observational case series with detailed ophthalmic and systemic phenotyping, optical coherence tomography (OCT), and neuroimaging.