A Case of an Unusually Aggressive Cutaneous Anaplastic Large T-Cell Lymphoma in an HIV Patient Treated with CHOP by Jorge Hurtado-Cordovi, Louay Hanna, Vladimir Gotlieb, Alan S. Multz, Anastasia Pigal

“…Our patient is a twenty-year-old African American male with perinatally acquired HIV who presented with a 2×2 centimeter necrotic lesion in the right 1st toe; however, 2-3 weeks later multiple smaller lesions appeared on the anterior aspect of the right foot, ankle, and thigh. …”
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Artery of Percheron Infarction: A Case Report of Bilateral Thalamic Stroke Presenting with Acute Encephalopathy by Charles Donohoe, Nooshin Kiani Nia, Patricia Carey, Vamsi Vemulapalli

“…We present a case of a 56-year-old African American female with a bilateral thalamic infarct secondary to the artery of Percheron thromboembolism. …”
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Severe Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve Stenosis and Heart Failure in a Young Woman with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Siddharth Wartak, Isaac Akkad, Adnan Sadiq, Gregory Crooke, Manfred Moskovits, Robert Frankel, Gerald Hollander, Jacob Shani

“…A 23-year-old African American woman with a past medical history of systemic lupus erythematous (SLE), secondary hypertension, and end stage renal disease (ESRD) on hemodialysis for eight years was stable until she developed symptomatic severe mitral regurgitation with preserved ejection fraction. …”
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An Unusual Case of Anti-GBM Antibody Elevation in HIV-Associated Nephropathy by Vinay Minocha, Raafat Makary, Andreea Poenariu

“…We present a case of a 27-year-old African American female with a history of schizophrenia, cocaine abuse, and HIV infection who upon admission to our hospital was found to have severe acute kidney injury requiring hemodialysis. …”
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Bioanthropological and Biomechanical Perspectives on Skeletal Senescence Variation by Sayf Muhammad Alaydrus, Muhamad Andri Jauhari

“…Variations were found in the bone aging process in different populations, especially regarding bone mineral density loss in white, African-American, Asian, and Hispanic populations. Conclusion: Specific population-based healthcare services in geriatrics and gerontology are highly suggested to ensure inclusive healthcare for every aged individual. …”
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Recipient Age Predicts 20-Year Survival in Pediatric Liver Transplant by Stephanie Keeling, Malcolm F. McDonald, Adrish Anand, Jordan Dunson, Elizabeth Williams, Theodore Zhang, Brian Hickner, Nhu Thao Nguyen Galván, Christine O’ Mahony, John A Goss, Abbas Rana

“…A preoperative primary diagnosis of a metabolic dysfunction was found to be protective compared to other diagnoses (OR 1.64, CI 1.20–2.25). African-American ethnicity (OR 0.71, CI 0.58–0.87) was also found to be a risk factor for mortality. …”
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Neurocognitive Impairment and HIV Treatment Engagement in Men Who Have Sex With Men Living With HIV Who Report Chronic Pain and Substance Use by Matthew C. Sullivan, Megan R. Wirtz, Samantha M. McKetchnie, Lauren R. Gulbicki, S. Wade Taylor, Jonathan D. Jampel, Nikhil Banerjee, Conall O’Cleirigh

“…Mean participant age was 57.2 years; most identified as White (55%), followed by Black/African American (42%). On average, participants reported moderate pain; 66.7% met DSM-5 criteria for a substance use disorder. …”
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Randomized Controlled Pilot Study Testing Use of Smartphone Technology for Obesity Treatment by Jerilyn K. Allen, Janna Stephens, Cheryl R. Dennison Himmelfarb, Kerry J. Stewart, Sara Hauck

“…The sample was 78% female and 49% African American, with an average age of 45 years, and average BMI of 34.3 kg/m2. …”
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Do Not Miss the Tumor: A Novel Presentation of Osteosarcoma by Michael DePalma, Sachin Gupta, Jie Nguyen, Divya Talwar, Alexandre Arkader, Lawrence Wells

“…The incidence rate of osteosarcoma has been reported as high as 5 to 7 per million among patients 19 years old or younger with males slightly more affected than females and African-Americans more than other racial groups. This report describes the case of a five-year-old African-American female who presented with an antalgic gait secondary to osteosarcoma in the left distal femur and follows her through treatment. …”
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Outcome for Patients with Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Is Not Dependent on Race/Ethnicity by Quyen D. Chu, Amanda E. Henderson, Fred Ampil, Benjamin D. L. Li

“…The 5-year overall survival was 77% for African-American women versus 72% for Caucasian women (𝑃=0.95). …”
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Eurocentrism, Afrocentrism, Postcolonialism and Hybridity in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and August Wilson’s Radio Golf by Olfa Gandouz

“…The rationale for choosing a modern African-American text that explores contemporary Eurocentrism, Afrocentrism, assimilation, nativism, and decolonization is to show that race is a universal issue. …”
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Ureteric Trauma following Stent Removal in Kidney Transplant Recipient: A Unique Case of Prolonged Morbidity by Ahmad Mirza, Imran Gani, Andy Shi Huang, Ravi Mallavarapu, Laura Mulloy, Muhammad Saeed, Rajan Kapoor

“…A 52-year-old African-American male patient with end-stage renal disease due to hypertension underwent deceased donor kidney transplant procedure with no immediate complications. …”
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Probable Hydrochlorothiazide-Induced Myopericarditis: First Case Reported by Toufik Mahfood Haddad, Muhammad Sarfraz Nawaz, Ahmed S. Abuzaid, Smrithy Upadhyay, Pallavi Bellamkonda, Aryan N. Mooss

“…Hydrochlorothiazide has never been reported as a reason for myopericarditis. An African American female, with past history of hypertension, coronary artery disease, and sulfa allergy, presented with indolent onset and retrosternal chest pain which was positional, pleuritic, and unresponsive to sublingual nitroglycerin. …”
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Clinical Characteristics in Patients with Triple Negative Breast Cancer by Janet Yeh, Jennifer Chun, Shira Schwartz, Annie Wang, Elizabeth Kern, Amber A. Guth, Deborah Axelrod, Richard Shapiro, Freya Schnabel

“…There was a significantly higher proportion of African American and Asian patients with TNBC (p=0.0003) compared to patients with non-TNBC. …”
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Proteomic profiling identifies upregulation of aurora kinases causing resistance to taxane-type chemotherapy in triple negative breast cancer by Bohan Ning, Chang Liu, Ali Cem Kucukdagli, Jiuyi Zhang, Han Jing, Zhiqian Zhou, Yuwei Zhang, Ying Dong, Yunjia Chen, Hua Guo, Jia Xu

“…In our UAB TNBC cohort, the expression of AURKA and AURKB was significantly higher in TNBC tumors compared to normal adjacent tissues, and AURKB was found to be highly expressed in African American TNBC patients compared to European Americans. …”
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Effect of Intensive Blood Pressure Control on Cardiovascular Remodeling in Hypertensive Patients with Nephrosclerosis by Otelio Randall, John Kwagyan, Tamrat Retta, Kenneth Jamerson, Velvie Pogue, Keith Norris, Muluemebet Ketete, Shichen Xu, Tom Greene, Xuelei Wang, Lawrence Agodoa

“…We studied 1094 nondiabetics with nephrosclerosis in the African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension. …”
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Attitudes toward Management of Sickle Cell Disease and Its Complications: A National Survey of Academic Family Physicians by Arch G. Mainous, Rebecca J. Tanner, Christopher A. Harle, Richard Baker, Navkiran K. Shokar, Mary M. Hulihan

“…There were significant differences in comfort level for treatment of SCD patients depending on whether or not physicians had patients who had SCD, as well as physicians who had more than 10% African American patients. Physicians also felt that clinical decision support (CDS) tools would be useful for treatment (69.4%) and avoiding complications (72.6%) in managing SCD patients. …”
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Malignant Course of Anomalous Left Coronary Artery Causing Sudden Cardiac Arrest: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Mahesh Anantha Narayanan, Christopher DeZorzi, Abhilash Akinapelli, Toufik Mahfood Haddad, Aiman Smer, Janani Baskaran, William P. Biddle

“…We present a case of sudden cardiac arrest caused by anomalous left anterior descending artery. 61-year-old African American female was brought to the emergency department after sudden cardiac arrest. …”
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Impacts of stigma and discrimination on people with obesity who smoke cigarettes by Liza A. Kolbasov, Arryn A. Guy, Cara M. Murphy

“…Participants (N = 63; predominantly women (81.0 %), White (63.5 %) or Black/African American (31.7 %), and heterosexual (85.7 %) with 50 % having a yearly income below $50,000) completed the measures of stigma (i.e., Weight Bias Internalization Scale and Internalized Stigma of Smoking Inventory), discrimination (i.e., Everyday Discrimination Scale), and symptoms of depression, weight, smoking, nicotine dependence, and concerns about gaining weight while quitting smoking were measured. …”
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A Novel Use of Early Radiation Therapy in the Treatment of Hyperbilirubinemia in a Patient with Primary Hepatic Lymphoma and Chronic Hepatitis C by Venkata S. Tammana, Rehana Begum, Patricia Oneal, Hemamalini Karpurapu, Amruta Muley, Sri Lakshmi Hyndavi Yeruva, Jacquelyn Dunmore-Griffith, Eyasu Mekonen, Nabhani Hasan

“…Here, we describe a case of Hepatitis C virus infection with primary hepatic lymphoma (PHL) presenting with hyperbilirubinemia. A 45-year-old African American male presented with abdominal pain, pruritus, and itching for two days. …”
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