Background: Researchers across the globe have continued their effort in identifying important risk factors for severe COVID-19 infection. Patient demographics including age, race, gender, and certain chronic medical conditions including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, and heart failure have been identified as the important risk factors for severity. To simply the risk stratification process, the CHA2DS2-VASc [...]

Background: Recent work by the authors showed that over half of the incidences of hypoglycemia in hospitalized diabetics involved patients with CKD, and that 18% of patients with diabetes and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) had a hypoglycemic episode while hospitalized. The importance of reducing inpatient hypoglycemia is reflected in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid [...]

Case Presentation: 57-year-old male, with history of recurrent idiopathic hypothermic episodes, HFrEF on carvedilol, T2DM on no medication for 3 months, and stage 4 CKD, presented to the ED for altered mentation. Vitals were unremarkable except for hypothermia (86.4°F). Patient was hypoglycemic (62 mg/dL). WBC count was low (1.26 10^3/uL). Urine WBCs were elevated (31-50/HPF). [...]

Case Presentation: We report a case of a 21-year-old woman presenting with repeated urinary tract infections, urinary incontinence, and hypertension over the course of 3 years. She denied other symptoms. She reported an uneventful C-section delivery, 3 years earlier also, of her first and only pregnancy, that coincidentally was followed by the onset of the [...]