Case Presentation: A 33-year-old woman with sickle cell SC disease (HbSC) was admitted to the hospital for respiratory support after testing positive for COVID-19. Four days prior to presentation, the patient developed subjective fever, cough, shortness of breath, substernal non-radiating chest pain, thigh and back pain. Her medical history included prior vaso-occlusive episodes, though no […]

Case Presentation: A 51-year-old African American man with history of methamphetamine use disorder, hypertension, and stuttering priapism presented with 2 weeks of painful priapism. Over the past 3 months, the patient had 4 other episodes of priapism lasting 1-4 days that were treated with multiple corporeal aspirations and intracavernous epinephrine injections with temporary relief. He […]

Case Presentation: A 30-year-old woman with sickle cell trait and recent history of preeclampsia, pregnancy loss, and deep vein thrombosis presented to the emergency room with right upper quadrant pain. The pain was new, rated ten on a ten-point severity scale, and non-radiating. She also endorsed progressively worsening cough over several months and new, right-sided […]