Case Presentation: A 19-year-old woman with a history of polysubstance abuse and recent e-cigarette/vaping product use associated lung injury (EVALI) presented to the Emergency Room (ER) at a rural medical center with Acute Respiratory Failure and Altered Mental Status (AMS). Pt was 3 months post-partum. Past medical history included chronic migraine headaches and Grave’s disease. [...]

Case Presentation: A 43 year old female with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department after developing subjective fevers, myalgias, arthralgias, and malaise one week after a hiking trip in northern Minnesota. She had a fever of 39.2℃ and splenomegaly with no rash. Pertinent labs showed a hemoglobin of 12.1 g/dL (11.6-15.0 [...]

Case Presentation: 62-year-old female with a past medical history of diabetes mellitus and breast cancer in remission presented to the emergency department (ED) with complaints of intermittent frontal headache for 2-3 weeks progressing to 1 day of fever, altered mentation, aphasia, and vomiting. In the ED, patient was afebrile with stable vital signs. Initial labs [...]

Case Presentation: Here-in, we presented a 27-year-old female who initially presented to an outside hospital with complaints of extreme fatigue, fevers, and diffuse myalgia in the setting of cough, shortness of breath and sharp lower abdominal and back pain. Upon thorough questioning, she admitted to using vaporized Cannabidiol oil for the past 3-4 weeks to [...]

Case Presentation: Intracranial subdural hematoma (ISH) is a rare and fatal complication of spinal anesthesia (SA); therefore a high index of suspicion for ISH should be considered when a case of suspected postdural puncture headache (PDPH) does not improve with conservative management. A 36-year-old female presented to the emergency room complaining of worsening headache of [...]

Case Presentation: A 77-year-old caucasian man with a known history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia and tobacco abuse initially presented to the hospital with chest pain for five days. He was diagnosed with an anterior wall ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). He underwent cardiac catheterization with drug-eluting stent placement to the left anterior descending coronary artery. Subsequent [...]

Case Presentation: 65-year-old male with chronic alcoholism, hepatitis C, prior GI bleed, and coronary disease was found unresponsive for unknown duration and was evaluated in the ED for alcohol intoxication. Patient was admitted to the hospitalist service for acute encephalopathy, acute renal failure, and alcohol withdrawal. Vital signs were stable on admission and laboratory studies [...]

Case Presentation: A 40-year-old female with adult-onset Still’s disease (AoSD) refractory to methylprednisolone and who had been recently started on anakinra 2 months prior to hospitalization was admitted with 2 weeks of fatigue, nausea, diffuse pruritis, jaundice, and intermittent fevers and rash. Exam was notable for jaundice and salmon-colored rashes on her trunk and back. [...]

Case Presentation: A 28-year-old male with no significant past medical history presented with acute onset of left arm numbness, paresthesia, itching, and rash. The patient works as a roofer, where he occasionally walks barefoot, and reported an injury to his left hand about 2 weeks prior to presentation. The injured area was covered with blisters, [...]

Case Presentation: A 60 year-old woman with a history of chronic hepatitis C without cirrhosis and schizophrenia with paranoid delusions was admitted with severe progressive bilateral burning foot pain. She had a history of intermittent alcohol use and recent homelessness. She lacked a primary care doctor and sought care for her bilateral lower extremity pain [...]