Case Presentation: A 52-year-old female with a past medical history of hypertension and type-2 diabetes mellitus presented with acute onset pain and numbness in her left arm-elbow region radiating to her left hand while working in her garden. She had a history of deep vein thrombosis in her left upper extremity (LUE) about five years […]

Case Presentation: This is a 72-year-old female patient who presents to the ED for the evaluation of loss of consciousness. The patient’s family also endorsed dark stools for the past few days. She has a medical history significant for Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus, and papillary thyroid cancer. On arrival, the Patient’s BP was 126/55, Heart […]

Case Presentation: A 62-year-old female presented with a two-week history of right upper quadrant abdominal pain radiating to the back. Her pain was described as sharp and intermittent and associated with subjective fever, nausea, vomiting, headache, and dizziness. On examination, the patient was hypertensive but afebrile. Abdominal tenderness was noted in the right upper quadrant […]

Case Presentation: A 71-year-old female with metastatic thyroid cancer status-post (s/p) radioiodine ablation and total thyroidectomy on oral chemotherapy, chronic kidney disease stage IV s/p deceased donor kidney transplant in 2019 on oral immunosuppression, presented with weakness, gastrointestinal symptoms, and acute-on-chronic dysphagia. While dysphagia work-up was ongoing, patient was noted to have right wrist swelling, […]

Case Presentation: A 43-year-old male with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection presented to the emergency department with subacute onset cough and shortness of breath. Medical history was significant for development of HIV after failed post-exposure prophylaxis with brief achievement of undetectable viral load on antiretroviral therapy (ART) followed by inability to […]

Case Presentation: A healthy 43-year-old Caucasian male who recently traveled to East Africa was presented to the emergency department with a high-grade fever (105.3F), and myalgia. He denied taking malaria chemoprophylaxis. On presentation, he was febrile, hypotensive, and tachycardic. He appeared to be ill, and toxic with no palpable organomegaly. His initial blood tests revealed […]

Case Presentation: Rheumatoid myositis is often underdiagnosed due to its variable laboratory, MRI, and biopsy findings and often misdiagnosed as idiopathic polymyositis.50-year-old female with seronegative RA and vocal cord dysfunction after COVID-19 infection presented with worsening proximal muscle weakness, dysphagia, and arthritis. A few years back she had multiple episodes of bilateral MCP swelling and […]

Case Presentation: A 63-year-old man with well-controlled human immunodeficiency virus infection, diabetes and peripheral artery disease presented with one day of hypoxemia and altered mental status (AMS). He was recently admitted for a right femoral-posterior tibial artery bypass angioplasty with excisional debridement of his foot. His course was complicated by an acute kidney injury (AKI), […]

Case Presentation: A 56-year-old man with elephantiasis nostras verrucosa (ENV) was admitted to the hospital for fevers due to sepsis from lower extremity cellulitis. On exam, he was febrile to 102.1°F with HR 98 and BP 103/65. Cardiopulmonary exam was unremarkable. Malodorous indurated 2cm-thick brown plaques, embedded with gray and yellow debris, covered his feet […]

Case Presentation: A 59-year-old Caucasian male eight months post liver transplant on Tacrolimus and Prednisone and one month post COVID-19 infection presented to our hospital with progressive weakness. Ten days prior to presentation he noted paresthesias of bilateral upper and lower extremities. This progressed to distal 4/5 weakness in all extremities, dysphagia, dysarthria, severe lower […]