Case Presentation: The patient is a 74 year-old male. He has chronic lymphocytic lymphoma, renal cell carcinoma treated with partial left nephrectomy a year ago, cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (on prednisone 15 mg daily), benign prostate hyperplasia, coronary artery disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and gout.He presented with shaking chills and fever for 1 day duration. The symptoms […]

Case Presentation: A 62 year old female with a past medical history of hypertension and diabetes presented to the emergency department with two days of fevers and lethargy. She was hypotensive despite fluid resuscitation and admitted to the intensive care unit for septic shock. Both urine cultures and initial blood cultures grew E. coli resistant […]