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Him Again?, Alex Beauchene

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

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How Well Do You Know Your Insurance?, Kate Lindquist

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

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My Journey With Tinnitus, Jack Curtain

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

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Coordinated Care, Catherine Terminello

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

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Language Barriers And The Quality Of Care, Vanessa Colina

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

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Lost In Translation, Demiana Boutros

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

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Narrative Medicine: Essays On Health And Care, Robert B. Hackey, Kate Lindquist, Demiana Boutros, Vanessa Colina, Catherine Terminello, Jack Curtain, Alex Beauchene, Colleen Dorrian, Caroline Tourgee, Brianna De La Fuente, Rachel Medeiros, Chloe Turano, Will Toner, Megan Lessard

Narrative Medicine: Essays on Health and Care

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Agricultural Producers' Perceptions Of Stressors: A Study On Controllability And Persistency, Mary Nelson Robertson, Devon Mills, Brice A. Fortinberry, Mary Marshall Waller, Hunter H. Thompson, Marina Denny, David Buys

Journal of Public Health in the Deep South

Farm stress negatively impacts agricultural producers’ (APs) physical and mental health. The average age of agricultural producers has increased in every USDA agricultural census since 1945, and the stressors may be either or both caused or exacerbated by increasing age. The Cooperative Extension Service is well-known for working with APs and is well-equipped to address these concerns for this aging population. To better understand farm-related stressors, this study examines APs’ and Extension agents’ perceptions of major stressors faced by APs. Focus groups were held to identify stressors and determine the controllability and persistency of those stressors. The mean age of …

Pre-Procedural Topical Antisepsis In The Neonate: A Systematic Review Evaluating Risk Factors For Skin Injury, Carly Mulinda, Sana Suhail, Bronwyn Sutherland, Christine T Lauren, Raegan D Hunt

Library Staff Publications

BACKGROUND: Pre-procedural antisepsis is a critical component of hospital-acquired infection prevention in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). However, broadly utilized topical antiseptic agents pose an elevated risk of disruption to neonatal skin integrity, and evidence-based guidelines are lacking. This systematic review of the literature sought to assess and characterize the predisposing risk factors for and types of neonatal skin injury from topical antiseptic agents.

METHODS: A systematic search of Medline Ovid, Embase, Web of Science, CINAHL, and Cochrane Library was conducted, including academic literature providing data on neonatal skin injuries related to topical antisepsis in the NICU.

RESULTS: A …

Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - October 4, 2024, Lindsay Hughes

Watercooler Newsletter

This is the Friday, October 4, 2024 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine's newsletter -- Watercooler.

Contents include:

• Medical students recognized for community service and professional development
• Menger accepted into premier scoliosis society
• USA welcomes Maier to emergency medicine
• Whiddon COM Class of 2028 elects officers 
• Last chance to register for USA Health Game Day
• Chaney awarded NIH grant to support neuroscience research

Guía Para Planes Escolares De Gestión Del Riesgo De Desastres, Diego Alejandro Mesa Baquero, Dalia Xiomara Suárez Pulido, Luis Miguel Castañeda Galindo, María Paula Gómez Leal, Diana Julieth Garzón Sánchez, Natalia Gómez Díaz

Ciencias Agropecuarias

A través de alianzas y encuentros interinstitucionales con todas las entidades territoriales relacionadas en educación ambiental y vinculando a todos los actores de la comunidad educativa tanto docentes directivos, docentes y estudiantes como organizaciones comunitarias y líderes locales para enriquecer la implementación del Proyecto Ambiental Escolar (PRAE) y los Planes Escolares de Gestión de Riesgo de Desastres (PEGR) de los respectivos establecimientos educativos. Esta guía metodológica establecerá los lineamientos para la formulación de los PEGR que contribuirán a la gestión de sus riesgos en cada una de las instituciones educativas y de sus sedes mediante la implementación de los procesos …

Inspire : Vol 7 Issue 10, Department Of Medicine

INSPIRE – Department of Medicine Archives

• Message from the Chair
• Medicine at National and International Forums
• Asian Oceanian Myology Center
• Dr. Shahab Abid's at Gastro Summit
• BDLA Conference
• Cardiovascular Innovation Foundation Conference 2024
• Dr Javaid Khan once again!
• Epilepsy Mini-Fellowship
• PIMA Central convention
• Nazar Ali Waljee Staff Award
• Empowering Dermatology Postgraduates
• Fire Drill | Department of Medicine
• Dr Noreen Nasir | Sharing her FDA journey | NUH Singapore
• Featured Fellow: Sana Qamar
• Poem
• Upcoming Events

Cell Type-Specific Epigenetic Priming Of Gene Expression In Nucleus Accumbens By Cocaine, Philipp Mews, Yentl Van Der Zee, Ashik Gurung, Molly Estill, Rita Futamura, Hope Kronman, Aarthi Ramakrishnan, Meagan Ryan, Abner A Reyes, Benjamin A Garcia, Caleb J Browne, Simone Sidoli, Li Shen, Eric J Nestler

2020-Current year OA Pubs

A hallmark of addiction is the ability of drugs of abuse to trigger relapse after periods of prolonged abstinence. Here, we describe an epigenetic mechanism whereby chronic cocaine exposure causes lasting chromatin and downstream transcriptional modifications in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), a critical brain region controlling motivation. We link prolonged withdrawal from cocaine to the depletion of the histone variant H2A.Z, coupled with increased genome accessibility and latent priming of gene transcription, in D1 dopamine receptor-expressing medium spiny neurons (D1 MSNs) that relate to aberrant gene expression upon drug relapse. The histone chaperone ANP32E removes H2A.Z from chromatin, and we …

A New Era Of Data-Driven Cancer Research And Care: Opportunities And Challenges, Felicia Gomez, Arpad M Danos, Joshua F Mcmichael, Malachi Griffith, Obi L Griffith, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

People diagnosed with cancer and their formal and informal caregivers are increasingly faced with a deluge of complex information, thanks to rapid advancements in the type and volume of diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment data. This commentary discusses the opportunities and challenges that the society faces as we integrate large volumes of data into regular cancer care.

Distinct Visual Processing Networks For Foveal And Peripheral Visual Fields, Jie Zhang, Huihui Zhou, Shuo Wang

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Foveal and peripheral vision are two distinct modes of visual processing essential for navigating the world. However, it remains unclear if they engage different neural mechanisms and circuits within the visual attentional system. Here, we trained macaques to perform a free-gaze visual search task using natural face and object stimuli and recorded a large number of 14588 visually responsive units from a broadly distributed network of brain regions involved in visual attentional processing. Foveal and peripheral units had substantially different proportions across brain regions and exhibited systematic differences in encoding visual information and visual attention. The spike-local field potential (LFP) …

Nationwide Availability Of And Enrollment In Medicare And Medicaid Dual-Eligible Special Needs Plans With Exclusively Aligned Enrollment, Kenton J Johnston, Michelle Hendricks, Megha Dabas, Eliza Macneal, Jeah Jung, David J Meyers, Jose F Figueroa, Eric T Roberts

2020-Current year OA Pubs

IMPORTANCE: In 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services designated a new category of dual-eligible special needs plans (D-SNPs) with exclusively aligned enrollment (receive Medicare and Medicaid benefits through the same plan or affiliated plans within the same organization).

OBJECTIVE: To assess the availability of and enrollment in D-SNPs with exclusively aligned enrollment and to compare the characteristics of beneficiaries enrolled in D-SNPs with exclusively aligned enrollment available vs beneficiaries without such enrollment available.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Full-benefit beneficiaries enrolled in D-SNPs for 6 months or longer in 2021 or 2022. Availability of and beneficiary enrollment in D-SNPs …

Generalized Spike-Waves In Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsies: Does Their Frequency Matter?, Ali A. Asadi-Pooya, Mohsen Farazdaghi

Department of Neurology Faculty Papers

OBJECTIVES: We hypothesized that the frequency (in Hertz) of generalized spike-waves (GSWs) in patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy (IGE) has associations with the syndromic diagnosis as well as with the prognosis of patients (their response to medical treatment). METHODS: This was a retrospective study of a prospectively developed database. All patients with a diagnosis of IGE were studied at the epilepsy center at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, from 2008 until 2022. Patients were classified into four IGE syndromes: childhood absence epilepsy; juvenile absence epilepsy; juvenile myoclonic epilepsy; and generalized tonic-clonic seizures alone. RESULTS: Five hundred and eighty-three …

Proceedings Of The 2022 “Lifestyle Intervention For Epilepsy (Life)” Symposium Hosted By Cleveland Clinic, Martha Sajatovic

Faculty Scholarship

Lifestyle interventions are strategies used to self-manage medical conditions, such as epilepsy, and often complement traditional pharmacologic and surgical therapies. The need for integrating evidence-based lifestyle interventions into mainstream medicine for the treatment of epilepsy is evident given that despite the availability of a multitude of treatments with medications and surgical techniques, a significant proportion of patients have refractory seizures, and even those who are seizure-free report significant adverse effects with current treatments. Although the evidence base for complementary medicine is less robust than it is for traditional forms of medicine, the evidence to date suggests that several forms of …

The History Of Chromosomal Instability In Genome-Doubled Tumors, Toby M Baker, Siqi Lai, Andrew R Lynch, Tom Lesluyes, Haixi Yan, Huw A Ogilvie, Annelien Verfaillie, Stefan Dentro, Amy L Bowes, Nischalan Pillay, Adrienne M Flanagan, Charles Swanton, Paul T Spellman, Maxime Tarabichi, Peter Van Loo

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Tumors frequently display high chromosomal instability and contain multiple copies of genomic regions. Here, we describe Gain Route Identification and Timing In Cancer (GRITIC), a generic method for timing genomic gains leading to complex copy number states, using single-sample bulk whole-genome sequencing data. By applying GRITIC to 6,091 tumors, we found that non-parsimonious evolution is frequent in the formation of complex copy number states in genome-doubled tumors. We measured chromosomal instability before and after genome duplication in human tumors and found that late genome doubling was followed by an increase in the rate of copy number gain. Copy number gains …

Reactions To The Mpox Vaccine Regarding Absences And Disruption Of Daily Activities In The United States, Robert Rossi

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Since its global outbreak in 2022, the monkeypox (Mpox) virus has infected over 32,000 individuals in the United States, resulting in approximately 58 deaths. Although the JYNNEOS vaccine is effective at disease prevention, it has also been found to cause side effects, such as a disruption in daily activities and/or attendance at work or school. This quantitative, cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate whether differences existed in reactions to the Mpox vaccine, using secondary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s V-safe Mpox survey. The two dependent variables were work/school absenteeism and disruption of daily activities, and the …

Biologic And Clinical Analysis Of Childhood Gamma Delta T-All Identifies Lmo2/Stag2 Rearrangements As Extremely High Risk, Shunsuke Kimura, Chun Shik Park, Lindsey E Montefiori, Ilaria Iacobucci, Petri Pölönen, Qingsong Gao, Elizabeth D Arnold, Andishe Attarbaschi, Anthony Brown, Barbara Buldini, Kenneth J Caldwell, Yunchao Chang, Chelsey Chen, Cheng Cheng, Zhongshan Cheng, John Choi, Valentino Conter, Kristine R Crews, Hester A De Groot-Kruseman, Takao Deguchi, Mariko Eguchi, Hannah E Muhle, Sarah Elitzur, Gabriele Escherich, Burgess B Freeman, Zhaohui Gu, Katie Han, Keizo Horibe, Toshihiko Imamura, Sima Jeha, Motohiro Kato, Kean H Chiew, Tanya Khan, Michal Kicinski, Stefan Köhrer, Steven M Kornblau, Rishi S Kotecha, Chi-Kong Li, Yen-Chun Liu, Franco Locatelli, Selina M Luger, Elisabeth M Paietta, Atsushi Manabe, Hanne V Marquart, Riccardo Masetti, Mellissa Maybury, Pauline Mazilier, Jules P P Meijerink, Sharnise Mitchell, Takako Miyamura, Andrew S Moore, Koichi Oshima, Katarzyna Pawinska-Wasikowska, Rob Pieters, Mollie S Prater, Shondra M Pruett-Miller, Ching-Hon Pui, Chunxu Qu, Michaela Reiterova, Noemi Reyes, Kathryn G Roberts, Jacob M Rowe, Atsushi Sato, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Martin Schrappe, Shuhong Shen, Szymon Skoczeń, Orietta Spinelli, Jan Stary, Michael Svaton, Masatoshi Takagi, Junko Takita, Yanjing Tang, David T Teachey, Paul G Thomas, Daisuke Tomizawa, Jan Trka, Elena Varotto, Tiffaney L Vincent, Jun J Yang, Allen E J Yeoh, Yinmei Zhou, Martin Zimmermann, Hiroto Inaba, Charles G Mullighan

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia expressing the gamma delta T-cell receptor (γδ T-ALL) is a poorly understood disease. We studied 200 children with γδ T-ALL from 13 clinical study groups to understand the clinical and genetic features of this disease. We found age and genetic drivers were significantly associated with outcome. γδ T-ALL diagnosed in children under 3 years of age was extremely high-risk and enriched for genetic alterations that result in both LMO2 activation and STAG2 inactivation. Mechanistically, using patient samples and isogenic cell lines, we show that inactivation of STAG2 profoundly perturbs chromatin organization by altering enhancer-promoter looping, resulting in …

Tissue-Agnostic Targeting Of Neurotrophic Tyrosine Receptor Kinase Fusions: Current Approvals And Future Directions, Mohamed A Gouda, Kyaw Z Thein, David S Hong

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

NTRK fusions are oncogenic drivers for multiple tumor types. Therefore, the development of selective tropomyosin receptor kinase (TRK) inhibitors, including larotrectinib and entrectinib, has been transformative in the context of clinical management, given the high rates of responses to these drugs, including intracranial responses in patients with brain metastases. Given their promising activity in pan-cancer cohorts, larotrectinib and entrectinib received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) approval for tissue-agnostic indications in patients with advanced solid tumors harboring NTRK fusions. The safety profiles for both drugs are quite manageable, although neurotoxicity driven by the on-target inhibition …

Cd28 Costimulation Augments Car Signaling In Nk Cells Via The Lck/Cd3Ζ/Zap70 Signaling Axis, Sunil Acharya, Rafet Basar, May Daher, Hind Rafei, Ping Li, Nadima Uprety, Emily Ensley, Mayra Shanley, Bijender Kumar, Pinaki P Banerjee, Luciana Melo Garcia, Paul Lin, Vakul Mohanty, Kun H Kim, Xianli Jiang, Yuchen Pan, Ye Li, Bin Liu, Ana K Nunez Cortes, Chenyu Zhang, Mohsen Fathi, Ali Rezvan, Melisa J Montalvo, Sophia L Cha, Francia Reyes-Silva, Rejeena Shrestha, Xingliang Guo, Kiran Kundu, Alexander Biederstädt, Luis Muniz-Feliciano, Gary M Deyter, Mecit Kaplan, Xin R Jiang, Enli Liu, Antrix Jain, Janos Roszik, Natalie W Fowlkes, Luisa M Solis Soto, Maria G Raso, Joseph D Khoury, Pei Lin, Francisco Vega, Navin Varadarajan, Ken Chen, David Marin, Elizabeth J Shpall, Katayoun Rezvani

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Multiple factors in the design of a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) influence CAR T-cell activity, with costimulatory signals being a key component. Yet, the impact of costimulatory domains on the downstream signaling and subsequent functionality of CAR-engineered natural killer (NK) cells remains largely unexplored. Here, we evaluated the impact of various costimulatory domains on CAR-NK cell activity, using a CD70-targeting CAR. We found that CD28, a costimulatory molecule not inherently present in mature NK cells, significantly enhanced the antitumor efficacy and long-term cytotoxicity of CAR-NK cells both in vitro and in multiple xenograft models of hematologic and solid tumors. Mechanistically, …

2024 Clinical Practice Guideline Update By The Infectious Diseases Society Of America On Complicated Intra-Abdominal Infections: Diagnostic Imaging Of Suspected Acute Appendicitis In Adults, Children, And Pregnant People, Robert A Bonomo, Pranita D Tamma, Fredrick M Abrahamian, Mary Bessesen, Anthony W Chow, E Patchen Dellinger, Morven S Edwards, Ellie Goldstein, Mary K Hayden, Romney Humphries, Keith S Kaye, Brian A Potoski, Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, Robert Sawyer, Marion Skalweit, David R Snydman, Katelyn Donnelly, Jennifer Loveless

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

This paper is part of a clinical practice guideline update on the risk assessment, diagnostic imaging, and microbiological evaluation of complicated intra-abdominal infections in adults, children, and pregnant people, developed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). In this paper, the panel provides recommendations for diagnostic imaging of suspected acute appendicitis. The panel's recommendations are based on evidence derived from systematic literature reviews and adhere to a standardized methodology for rating the certainty of evidence and strength of recommendation according to the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation) approach.

2024 Clinical Practice Guideline Update By The Infectious Diseases Society Of America On Complicated Intra-Abdominal Infections: Diagnostic Imaging Of Suspected Acute Intra-Abdominal Abscess In Adults, Children, And Pregnant People, Robert A Bonomo, Pranita D Tamma, Fredrick M Abrahamian, Mary Bessesen, Anthony W Chow, E Patchen Dellinger, Morven S Edwards, Ellie Goldstein, Mary K Hayden, Romney Humphries, Keith S Kaye, Brian A Potoski, Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, Robert Sawyer, Marion Skalweit, David R Snydman, Katelyn Donnelly, Jennifer Loveless

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

This article is part of a clinical practice guideline update on the risk assessment, diagnostic imaging, and microbiological evaluation of complicated intra-abdominal infections in adults, children, and pregnant people, developed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. In this article, the panel provides recommendations for diagnostic imaging of suspected acute intra-abdominal abscess. The panel's recommendations are based on evidence derived from systematic literature reviews and adhere to a standardized methodology for rating the certainty of evidence and strength of recommendation according to the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation) approach.

2024 Clinical Practice Guideline Update By The Infectious Diseases Society Of America On Complicated Intra-Abdominal Infections: Utility Of Blood Cultures In Adults, Children, And Pregnant People, Robert A Bonomo, Romney Humphries, Fredrick M Abrahamian, Mary Bessesen, Anthony W Chow, E Patchen Dellinger, Morven S Edwards, Ellie Goldstein, Mary K Hayden, Keith S Kaye, Brian A Potoski, Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, Robert Sawyer, Marion Skalweit, David R Snydman, Pranita D Tamma, Sarah Pahlke, Katelyn Donnelly, Jennifer Loveless

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

This article is part of a clinical practice guideline update on the risk assessment, diagnostic imaging, and microbiological evaluation of complicated intra-abdominal infections in adults, children, and pregnant people, developed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. In this guideline, the panel provides recommendations for obtaining blood cultures in patients with known or suspected intra-abdominal infection. The panel's recommendations are based on evidence derived from systematic literature reviews and adhere to a standardized methodology for rating the certainty of evidence and strength of recommendation according to the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation) approach.

Identification Of An Ionic Mechanism For Erα-Mediated Rapid Excitation In Neurons, Meng Yu, Na Yin, Bing Feng, Peiyu Gao, Kaifan Yu, Hesong Liu, Hailan Liu, Yongxiang Li, Olivia Z Ginnard, Kristine M Conde, Mengjie Wang, Xing Fang, Longlong Tu, Jonathan C Bean, Qingzhuo Liu, Yue Deng, Yuxue Yang, Junying Han, Sanika V Jossy, Megan L Burt, Huey Zhong Wong, Yongjie Yang, Benjamin R Arenkiel, Yang He, Shaodong Guo, Pierre Gourdy, Jean-Francois Arnal, Francoise Lenfant, Zhao Wang, Chunmei Wang, Yanlin He, Yong Xu

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

The major female ovarian hormone, 17β-estradiol (E2), can alter neuronal excitability within milliseconds to regulate a variety of physiological processes. Estrogen receptor-α (ERα), classically known as a nuclear receptor, exists as a membrane-bound receptor to mediate this rapid action of E2, but the ionic mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we show that a membrane channel protein, chloride intracellular channel protein-1 (Clic1), can physically interact with ERα with a preference to the membrane-bound ERα. Clic1-mediated currents can be enhanced by E2 and reduced by its depletion. In addition, Clic1 currents are required to mediate the E2-induced rapid excitations in multiple brain ERα …

Terminal Differentiation Precedes Functional Circuit Integration In The Peduncle Neurons In Regenerating Hydra Vulgaris, Alondra Escobar, Soonyoung Kim, Abby S Primack, Guillaume Duret, Celina E Juliano, Jacob T Robinson

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

Understanding how neural circuits are regenerated following injury is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Hydra is a powerful model for studying this process because it has a simple neural circuit structure, significant and reproducible regenerative abilities, and established methods for creating transgenics with cell-type-specific expression. While Hydra is a long-standing model for regeneration and development, little is known about how neural activity and behavior is restored following significant injury. In this study, we ask if regenerating neurons terminally differentiate prior to reforming functional neural circuits, or if neural circuits regenerate first and then guide the constituent naive cells toward their …

2024 Clinical Practice Guideline Update By The Infectious Diseases Society Of America On Complicated Intra-Abdominal Infections: Risk Assessment In Adults And Children, Robert A Bonomo, Anthony W Chow, Fredrick M Abrahamian, Mary Bessesen, E Patchen Dellinger, Morven S Edwards, Ellie Goldstein, Mary K Hayden, Romney Humphries, Keith S Kaye, Brian A Potoski, Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, Robert Sawyer, Marion Skalweit, David R Snydman, Pranita D Tamma, Katelyn Donnelly, Dipleen Kaur, Jennifer Loveless

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

This paper is part of a clinical practice guideline update on the risk assessment, diagnostic imaging, and microbiological evaluation of complicated intra-abdominal infections in adults, children, and pregnant people, developed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. In this paper, the panel provides a recommendation for risk stratification according to severity of illness score. The panel's recommendation is based on evidence derived from systematic literature reviews and adheres to a standardized methodology for rating the certainty of evidence and strength of recommendation according to the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation) approach.

2024 Clinical Practice Guideline Update By The Infectious Diseases Society Of America On Complicated Intra-Abdominal Infections: Diagnostic Imaging Of Suspected Acute Diverticulitis In Adults And Pregnant People, Robert A Bonomo, Pranita D Tamma, Fredrick M Abrahamian, Mary Bessesen, Anthony W Chow, E Patchen Dellinger, Morven S Edwards, Ellie Goldstein, Mary K Hayden, Romney Humphries, Keith S Kaye, Brian A Potoski, Jesús Rodríguez-Baño, Robert Sawyer, Marion Skalweit, David R Snydman, Katelyn Donnelly, Jennifer Loveless

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

This paper is part of a clinical practice guideline update on the risk assessment, diagnostic imaging, and microbiological evaluation of complicated intra-abdominal infections in adults, children, and pregnant people, developed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. In this paper, the panel provides recommendations for diagnostic imaging of suspected acute diverticulitis. The panel's recommendations are based on evidence derived from systematic literature reviews and adhere to a standardized methodology for rating the certainty of evidence and strength of recommendation according to the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation) approach.