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Standardizing Resident Education On Gi Service, Jennifer Halma, Kenneth Schmidt
Standardizing Resident Education On Gi Service, Jennifer Halma, Kenneth Schmidt
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Introduction: The pediatric residency curriculum at Children’s Mercy Hospital is standardized to offer each trainee the same rotational experience. As a result, each resident spends one month on the inpatient gastroenterology (GI) service during training. This invites variability in the quantity and quality of GI education that residents receive. Therefore, there is a need to design a standard curriculum to provide comprehensive GI education. The aim of this project is to standardize resident education by identifying most requested topics and providing didactic education to increase resident general GI knowledge. Methods: Each month, residents were provided with a survey to assess …
Elevated Stool Inflammatory Markers In Early Onset Polymorphic Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disease Following Orthotopic Heart Transplant, Jeremy Stewart, Keith August, Thomas M. Attard
Elevated Stool Inflammatory Markers In Early Onset Polymorphic Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disease Following Orthotopic Heart Transplant, Jeremy Stewart, Keith August, Thomas M. Attard
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Acute gastrointestinal hemorrhage in the context of a recent organ transplant with immunosuppression, antibiotic exposure, drug exposures and other comorbidities is a challenging clinical scenario with coordinated multidisciplinary effort needed to optimize management and outcomes. We present a patient with recent solid organ transplant with severe acute gastrointestinal bleeding attributable to EBV associated post-transplant lymphoproliferative disease. The patient is a 13-year-old Female with Williams syndrome who is EBV negative and CMV positive who received an EBV/CMV positive orthotopic heart transplant 5.5 months prior to presentation. She presented with bloody diarrhea, anemia (7.8 gm/dL), hypovolemia, and acute kidney injury (BUN 25 …