Case Presentation: Patient is a 45-year-old female with a history of esophageal reflux and dysmotility, asthma, depression/anxiety, and recent SARS-2-CoV infection (COVID-19) who presented to our hospital 9 months after initial and 3 months after recurrent COVID-19 with headache, dyspnea, and home blood pressures (BP) > 180/100. Patient reported intermittent symptoms for the last 3 […]

Background: There is evidence that significantly disruptive health events, such as hospitalizations, may increase patients’ receptiveness to interventions that lead to healthier lifestyle choices and medication adherence. For example, research has shown that hospitalizations are particularly effective settings for delivering some interventions aimed at preventing chronic disease morbidity, such as intervening on tobacco use. Additional […]

Case Presentation: We present the case of a 32-year-old woman with past medical history of anxiety/depression, previous heroin abuse, hepatitis C who presented with tremors, chest pain, and vomiting. In the ER, her vitals were HR 94, RR 22, BP 117/83, SpO2 95% on room air. Initial labs showed elevated troponin 1.38, 4.44, 9.15. EKG […]

Case Presentation: A 25-year-old man with ADHD and anxiety presented to the emergency department with four days of acute headache. CT scan of the head revealed an acute left frontal intraparenchymal hemorrhage. Neurosurgery resected a left frontal arteriovenous malformation that had ruptured due to hypertension. Over the next year, he presented to the ED and […]

Case Presentation: A 61-year-old male with history of hypertension, asthma, and morbid obesity presented with left arm, chest, and face numbness, back pain, and shortness of breath at rest. He denied weakness with the numbness. His symptoms were akin to “being kicked by an elephant.” These symptoms had been worsening for one week prior to […]