Background: Several case reports and case series have found that transcatheter mitral valve procedures (TMVP) improve hemodynamics and reduce symptoms in patients with mitral valve disease and concomitant hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM).(1-6) There is a lack of evidence regarding the outcomes of patients that undergo TMVP with HOCM, however several studies have evaluated the outcomes [...]

Case Presentation: A 71 year old female with past medical history of DM2, HTN, and CKD presented with weakness and body aches, progressing to inability to ambulate. Home medications included insulin, valsartan, and rosuvastatin. She was found to have a creatinine of 7.99 mg/dL from a baseline of 2 mg/dL. She was also found to [...]

Case Presentation: A 39-year-old male with no significant past medical history presented to the ED with dyspnea on exertion, palpitations, orthopnea, lightheadedness, anxiety, 100-pound weight loss over a 2-year period, and swelling in his left lower extremity. Upon admission, the patient was tachycardic and tachypneic. EKG was significant for new onset atrial fibrillation with RVR, [...]

Case Presentation: A 71-year-old female patient with a medical history of coronary artery disease (CAD), hypertension (HTN), and mixed hyperlipidemia presented to our medical facility, reporting chest pain. She underwent a left heart catheterization, revealing significant stenosis in the proximal right coronary artery (RCA), which was successfully treated with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) and [...]

Case Presentation: This case report outlines the clinical course of a previously healthy 25 year old female who presented to the emergency department with a 2 week history of myalgia, high grade fever, and pain in palms and soles of her feet. Upon presentation to the patient’s local ER, her clinical condition rapidly deteriorated, and [...]

Case Presentation: 65 year old female with history of rheumatoid arthritis on methotrexate and hydroxychloroquine, prior gastric ulcers on EGD, who was admitted to the hospital with bloody diarrhea, epigastric pain, acute blood loss anemia found to have duodenal ulcer. Patient received 2 units of blood products on hospitals day one and four. Course had [...]