Case Presentation: A 51‐year‐old woman with a medical history of congestive heart failure, hepatitis B, and hypothyroidism was transferred from an outside hospital for a workup of an abdominal mass. The patient had presented several months ago to her parent facility complaining of abdominal pain and swelling. A workup performed at the referring facility revealed [...]

Case Presentation: Chest pain is the second most common reason for visiting an emergency department in the United States. Ruling out medical emergencies is crucial. We are presenting a case of chest pain due to an unthought‐of life‐threatening condition…This is a 66‐year‐old man with a medical history of diabetes mel‐litus, coronary artery disease, and hypertension. [...]

Case Presentation: A 22‐year‐old previously healthy woman presented in May 2008 describing fever, fatigue, diarrhea, and dysuria for 1 week. She recalled a tick bite 3 weeks prior to her illness. She was prescribed trimethoprim‐sulfamethoxazole for a presumed urinary tract infection as an outpatient. Her symptoms failed to improve, and she was admitted and diagnosed [...]

Case Presentation: This is a case of an 8‐year‐old girl who presented with a 2‐day history of abdominal pain, vomiting, and fever. She subsequently developed cough, lethargy, and “sniffing” paroxysms consisting of arm and leg extension, downward eye deviation, and an abnormal breathing pattern that looked like sniffing. Each episode lasted approximately 10 seconds. Her [...]

Case Presentation: A 49‐year‐old African American woman presented to the emergency room (ER) with a 3‐day history of high‐grade fevers, chills, and generalized muscie aches after returning from a 3‐week trip to Nigeria without malaria prophylaxis. On admission her temperature was 39°C, heart rate was 99 beats per minute, and blood pressure (BP) was 100/50 [...]

Case Presentation: A 51‐year‐old man with a new diagnosis of HIV/AIDS complicated by cryptococcemia and toxopSasma brain abscess, with a CD4 count of 17 cells/μL, presented to our hospital 2 months after his initial diagnosis with a chief complaint of dyspnea and palpitations. He was on his fifth week of antiretroviral therapy and now had [...]

Case Presentation: A 34‐year‐old woman presented with 2 days of headache, nausea, vomiting, and bilateral eye pain. The headache was describes as throbbing and radiated from the base of her skull down the back of her neck. Emesis was nonbilious and non‐bloody and precipitated by ingestion of solids and liquids. She had a fever of [...]

Case Presentation: A 59‐year‐old man with a medical history significant for congestive heart failure and diabetes mellitus presented with a new right upper lobe nodule (positive on PET scan), for which he underwent a CT‐guided percutaneous biopsy. Coaxial technique was used to perform the biopsy of the more peripherally located lesion using a 19‐gauge biopsy [...]

Case Presentation: A 28‐year‐old white man was transferred to our facility from an outside hospital for 1 week of fatigue and cough. He smoked half a pack a day and had a history of asthma for which he took an albuterol inhaler twice daily. He denied any fever or sick contacts. In the emergency department [...]

Case Presentation: A 37‐year‐old woman with an unremarkable medical history was admitted with sudden onset of dizziness, aphasia, and right arm numbness and weakness. The patient's symptoms lasted approximately 45 minutes and then slowly resolved, after which she was able to call for help. A few hours before her symptoms, the patient had her usual [...]