Case Presentation: A 62-year-old female with diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension presented after a transient episode of left-sided weakness and dysarthria that resolved by the time of arrival to the emergency department. Vital signs were stable except for a blood pressure of 167/92. Physical exam, including a comprehensive neurologic exam, was negative. Urgent stroke workup was [...]

Case Presentation: A 55-year-old female with a past medical history of seizure disorder and prior opioid use presented to an outside emergency department with a 1-day history of expressive aphasia and headache. Her NIH Stroke Scale was 4. CT head w/o contrast demonstrated a subacute infarct within the left middle cerebral artery (MCA) territory and [...]

Case Presentation: A 53-year-old male with a history of Goodpasture syndrome, systemic lupus, and Wegener’s granulomatosis underwent a deceased donor kidney transplant for end-stage renal disease. Two days post-surgery, the patient developed anemia and thrombocytopenia, elevated lactate dehydrogenase, and increased creatinine, prompting a preemptive diagnosis of TTP. Plasmapheresis was initiated every other day, alternating with [...]

Case Presentation: A 48-year-old male with past medical history significant for hypertension, alcohol use disorder in remission, known grade I esophageal varices, and cirrhosis who presented with confusion and oral mucosa bleeding. He was tachycardic to 100 but had adequate blood pressure of 106/68. Initial labs remarkable for hemoglobin 9.4 g/dL and platelet count 1 [...]

Case Presentation: A 29-year-old man with a history of morbid obesity, asthma, and chronic tracheostomy presented with 3 weeks of abdominal pain. The pain was intermittent and epigastric, without relationship to eating. He had poor appetite and nausea, though no emesis. He denied use of ibuprofen or alcohol. He denied fevers or chills. The pain [...]

Case Presentation: A 29-year-old female Jehovah’s Witness presented with three weeks of easy bruising in the absence of trauma. She also noticed heavier and prolonged menstrual flow associated with fatigue and dizziness. She denied medication use, febrile illnesses or neurologic symptoms. Vital signs were normal. Physical exam revealed multiple ecchymoses on bilateral upper and lower [...]