Case Presentation: A 73-year-old male with history of type 2 diabetes and one-month prior admission for acute renal failure in the setting of stage IV chronic kidney disease presented with symptomatic anemia found to have splenomegaly. A renal biopsy revealed features of membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis and necrotizing crescentic lesions with IgM kappa deposition, suspicious for cryoglobulinemic glomerulonephritis. Immunofixation […]

Case Presentation: A 79 year old African American female with non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, EF 35-40%, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, hypothyroidism, mild pulmonary hypertension, obesity, and mixed hyperlipidemia, presented with worsening dizziness and bipedal edema for 2 weeks. Patient reported stopping diuretics and carvedilol due to persistent hypotension for several months. Patient noted unintentional weight loss of […]

Case Presentation: Schnitzler syndrome (SD) is a rare auto-inflammatory disease where patients present with recurrent fevers, arthralgias, urticaria, monoclonal gammopathy and elevated inflammatory markers. It was first described by Liliane Schnitzler in 1972 [1]. Given the complexity and rarity of this syndrome it is often underdiagnosed and causes a significant delay between disease onset and […]