By Amin H. Karim MD
1995: An interesting encounter took place with someone I knew. The case was reported in the New England Journal of Medicine March 2, 1995. The case generated a lot of publicity with coverage on TV and newspapers. We even got a call from ABC Network for an interview on air, but the doctor declined. He recovered with no sequelae and went back to practice, retiring recently.
By Amin H. Karim MD
This article was published in 1986 in “Hospital Practice”. May still be applicable since trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole is still in use when indicated for infections susceptible to sulfas.
By Amin H. Karim MD
In 1981-84 I was a resident at the Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Joseph Solomon was a cardiologist and the CCU attending and the only invasive cardiologist in the hospital; he did only left and right heart catheterizations. Patients needing coronary intervention were sent to either Johns Hopkins downtown Baltimore or to Minnesota to Dr. Dudley Johnson. I took care of a patient with heart failure symptoms which turned out to be constrictive pericarditis. The case was reported and published in the American Journal of Medicine in 1985.
Amin H. Karim MD
By Amin H. Karim MD
In 1993, I worked at a small hospital called the Del Oro Hospital, which was established by a group of physicians in the Texas Medical Center who wanted to create a hospital outside the domain of the major players of the Texas Medical Center. It was a 100 bed hospital located on Greenbriar Avenue next to the Reliant Stadium (now called NRG Stadium). The hospital was later sold to Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) and later to Columbia Hospital and then back to HCA when Columbia went bankrupt. The Texas Women’s Hospital is behind this hospital. The hospital closed in 1995 and was torn down. It is now replaced by an extension of the Women’s Hospital.
Late Dr. Pedro Rubio was a cardiovascular surgeon trained by late Dr. Michael E. DeBakey at Baylor College of Medicine. He was the only CV surgeon at De Oro for a long time. He had an freak accident at home when he tripped and injured his elbow; he retired thereafter and later passed away (may he Rest in Peace). Dr. Rubio and I saw a case which is described in this paper and turned out to be interesting and unique enough for us to report it in literature. (Amin H. Karim November 24 2023)
By Amin H. Karim MD
An article published in the Texas Heart Institute Journal in 1988 after the TIMI Trial 1 had been completed and the standard of care for acute myocardial infarction was thrombolysis with Tissue Plasminogen Activator. (TPA) made by Genentec. We wrote this article as fellows of the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. (AHK November 24 2023)
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