Case Presentation: A 47-year-old woman with lupus presented with one week of urinary frequency and dysuria. Over the prior year, she had pelvic pain, night sweats, 20 pounds of unintentional weight loss, and eight episodes of pan-susceptible E. coli urinary tract infections (UTIs), each successfully treated. Her chronic medications were prednisone, hydroxychloroquine, and azathioprine.A computed […]

Case Presentation: A 63-year-old Caucasian female with a medical history of type 2 DM, HTN, and cholecystectomy presented with a 3-days history of abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. She has no history of alcohol intake and has a pertinent family history of colon cancer. Physical exam and vital signs were normal except for epigastric tenderness.Labs […]

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 […]