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A 25 year-old patient with a Port-a-Cath implanted in the right chest complains of sudden onset severe neck pain and headaches with flushing central line and PN infusions. Labs and exam normal, including afebrile. Previous X-ray shows central line tip in at the cavo-atrial junction. Today, chest X...

Population Home parenteral nutrition is a life-sustaining therapy provided to ~40,000 people in the United States. Delegge MH. Demographics of home parenteral nutrition. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2002 Sep-Oct;26(5 Suppl):S60-2. Review. PubMed PMID: 12216724. Total annual care In 2008...

Pathophysiology: Mutations EPCAM Disordered fixation protein expression along the basolateral membrane of intestinal epithelium (especially in crypts), which leads to the consequence of tufts along villi. Salomon J, Espinosa-Parrilla Y, Goulet O, Al-Qabandi W, Guigue P, Canioni D, Bruneau J...

Parent of a 1 year-old female on home parenteral nutrition secondary to short bowel syndrome (necrotizing enterocolitis) calls with a 2-day history of fever 101 degrees Fahrenheit (38.3 degrees Celsius). There are no other clinical complaints besides from teething. What is the next step? A...

5 year-old male with long-term HPN dependence secondary to short bowel syndrome is seen for routine follow-up. Enteral tolerance is currently maximized. PN currently providing energy 45 kcal/kg/day, protein 1.3 gram/kg/day, IV soybean lipids 1 gram/kg/day, glucose infusion rate 10 mg/kg/minute...

PhD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine MS, Chinese Academy of Sciences BS, Nankai University

April Boin Choi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Boston Children's Hospital. April received a B.A. in Biological Sciences from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University. During her graduate training with Dr. Charles A. Nelson, her...

April Boin Choi is a Ph.D. candidate in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research interests lie in behavioral and brain development in infants at risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and early interventions that can...

Years Name Position in Lab Current Position 2006-2014 Elisa Boscolo, PhD Post-doc/Instructor Assistant Professor, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH 2013-2014 Matt Peacock Graduate Student Medical Student, Boston University, Boston, MA 2013-2014 Maria Gnarra, MD Graduate Student Post-doc...