The column in this issue is supplied by Drs. Benjamin Lee, MD, and Usman Ansari, DO. Dr. Lee is an assistant professor of clinical medicine at the Houston Methodist Institute for Academic Medicine and Weill Cornell Medical College. After earning his medical degree at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Lee completed a residency in internal medicine and a nephrology fellowship at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) while simultaneously obtaining a master of advanced study in clinical research from the UCSF departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He maintains his clinical practice with the Houston Kidney Consultants. Dr. Ansari earned a Doctor of Osteopathy from Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine in California and is completing his internal medicine residency at Houston Methodist.
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Minerva Gastroenterol (Torino)
January 2025
Houston Methodist Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College, Lynda K and David M Underwood Center for Digestive Disorders, Houston, TX, USA -
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) was originally described as a cause of maldigestion and malabsorption in situations where disruptions of intestinal anatomy or physiology favored the proliferation of bacteria normally confined to the colon. In this context, the pathogenesis of symptoms resulting from SIBO was well described. More recently, the concept of SIBO was extended to explain symptoms such as bloating, altered bowel habit and discomfort among individuals with irritable bowel syndrome and since then a whole host of gastrointestinal and extragastrointestinal disorders have been attributed to SIBO.
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March 2025
Texas A and M School of Medicine, Bryan, TX, USA.
Introduction: Fibular- and tibiofibular-based reconstructions are the gold standard treatment for posterolateral corner (PLC) injuries of the knee. This is the first report describing a wholly tibial-based PLC reconstruction.
Case Report: A 50-year-old female presented with knee instability following proximal fibular resection for a benign tumor, associated with chronic anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) deficiency from a previous injury.
JACC Adv
January 2025
Center for Health & Nature, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, USA.
Background: Green space has been linked with cardiovascular (CV) health. Nature access and quality may have significant impact on CV risk factors and health.
Objectives: The authors aimed to investigate the relationship between NatureScore, a composite score for natural environment exposure and quality of green spaces, with CV risk factors and atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (ASCVD).
Int J Infect Dis
January 2025
Microbiology Department, Hospital Universitari Bellvitge, IDIBELL-UB, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain; Research Network for Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), ISCIII, Madrid, Spain; Department of Pathology and Experimental Therapeutics, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address:
Objectives: An increase in Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis (SDSE) infections has been documented worldwide. This study aims to analyse invasive disease caused by SDSE (iSDSE) in adults over an 11-year period in Spain.
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