Case Presentation: A 22-year-old healthy female presented in April 2021 for abdominal pain during menstruation. Vital signs and workup with blood counts, metabolic, pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infection panels were unremarkable. Urinalysis showed nitrites, pyuria, bilirubin, and urobilinogen. Ultrasound and CT of the abdomen/pelvis were unremarkable. She was diagnosed with cystitis and prescribed cefuroxime. Urine [...]

Case Presentation: A 72-year-old Caucasian woman without a known history of Myasthenia Gravis (MG) presented to the emergency department (ED) with profound fatigue and shortness of breath for 1 week. The patient had received her second Moderna COVID-19 vaccine dose 1.5 weeks prior to presentation.The patient reported that she was in her normal state of [...]

Background: Guillain barre syndrome(GBS) has been recently associated with COVID-19 disease. Usually, GBS cases are associated with immune stimulation and reported after taking different vaccines, however, there is no confirmed evidence that this is a causal association. In this systematic review, we are investigating cases of GBS that have been reported following the COVID-19 vaccination. [...]

Case Presentation: A 36-year-old man with past medical history of recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presented to our hospital with numbness of the lower extremities for two weeks. The patient stated the numbness had progressed from his right leg to his left leg. He also mentioned having urinary and fecal retention. He denied any recent [...]

Case Presentation: A 38 year old male with a history of anxiety and hypothyroidism who received the second dose of SARS-COV2 Pfizer-Biontech vaccination 17 days prior, presented with 4 days of severe gingival bleeding after dental cleaning, epistaxis and a petechial rash of his extremities and was found to have new onset severe thrombocytopenia of [...]

Case Presentation: 66 year old male with past medical history of hypertension presented with complains of tingling sensations & weakness involving his hands for 2 weeks. His initial symptoms began with weakness involving bilateral feet, legs & hamstrings that started about 10 weeks prior to this presentation. He received moderna vaccine 1 month prior to [...]

Case Presentation: 73-year-old man was diagnosed with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) in 2011 and was treated with intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG), high dose steroid, rituximab and romiplostim to which he responded and subsequently was weaned off of azathioprine and steroid and achieved remission starting 2012. Eight weeks after receiving second dose of Pfizer’s BNT162b2 vaccination, he noted [...]

Case Presentation: A 52-year-old man with a history of hypertension and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) two months prior presented to the emergency department (ED) with five days of fever, malaise, vomiting, and diarrhea. He tested positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) three days prior and received monoclonal antibody infusion the day prior [...]

Case Presentation: An unvaccinated 56-year-old man with a past medical history of hypertension, insulin dependent diabetes, sleep apnea, and obesity presented to the emergency department with complaints of dyspnea, cough, fevers, and diarrhea for the past 5 days. Initial work up was significant for COVID-19, a normal troponin level, elevated inflammatory markers, creatinine of 1.57, [...]

Case Presentation: An 82 year old male with unknown PMH presented with worsening dry cough and dyspnea. 1 week course of antibiotics provided minimal relief. Patient was febrile/tachycardic on arrival with rhonchi appreciated on bilateral lower lung field auscultation. His oxygen saturation was found to be dipping below 90% on room air for which he [...]