Case Presentation: A 41-year-old healthy male presented to emergency department with cough and shortness of breath. Shortness of breath and cough was gradually progressive over one week, worsening with exertion. Cough is dry with no known aggravating factor. He denied fever or wheezing. No history of active or passive cigarette smoking, sick contact, recent travel, [...]

Case Presentation: A 71-year-old Caucasian female with history of atrial fibrillation, gastroesophageal reflux disease, chronic kidney disease stage 3a was admitted for 2-week history of nausea, vomiting, and decreased urinary output. The patient had a recent admission for atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular rate without causative etiology identified and was discharged on amiodarone and apixaban. [...]

Case Presentation: A 56-year-old female with a history of recurrent MRSA sinusitis and c-ANCA and PR3 positive granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) presented with right-sided facial droop sparing the eye and upper face, unilateral facial numbness, and right-sided tongue deviation that began four hours before presentation. She also endorsed sinus fullness for the past three days [...]

Case Presentation: A 22-year-old woman presented after an episode of syncope and chest pain. The patient reported weight loss and anorexia for 2 weeks and fever, fatigue, and chills for a few days prior to presentation. She had recently moved to Georgia from Missouri. She had no significant medical or family history. Initial workup showed [...]

Case Presentation: A 33 year old female with reported history of recurrent ‘ear infections’ presented with acute ischemia of bilateral digits of her hands and feet after one month of bilateral hand and foot paraesthesia. Labs on admission showed white blood cell count 11.08 K/uL, hemoglobin 12.5 g/dL, platelet count 622 K/uL, ESR 107 mm/hr, [...]

Case Presentation: A 63-year-old male with a past medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, ESRD on HD, and acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML) (diagnosed in 2015) in remission s/p allogeneic MRD PBSCT (4/16) was admitted for generalized weakness and confusion. His hospitalization was complicated by worsening pancytopenia (Hgb 7.8 g/dL, WBC 3.2 [...]

Case Presentation: A previously healthy 45-year-old male, who recently immigrated from India, presented with worsening dyspnea at rest, epistaxis, hearing loss, and bilateral eye irritation after three weeks on rifampin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol (RIPE) therapy. Negative Mycobacterium tuberculosis polymerase chain reaction (MTB PCR) and acid-fast bacillus (AFB) sputum culture results from the previous admission [...]

Case Presentation: A 31-year-old male with a past medical history of opiate use disorder and presumed Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) on chronic prednisone was admitted for lower extremity edema, sore throat, hemoptysis, and dyspnea. He also reported a progressively worsening mouth ulcer for the past 6 months. He was found to have bilateral lower extremity [...]

Case Presentation: A 56-year-old female with history of spastic quadriplegia secondary to multiple sclerosis, neurogenic bladder with a long-term indwelling suprapubic catheter presented with septic shock. ​ Labs revealed leukocytosis and lactic acidosis. A contrast enhanced computed tomography of abdomen and pelvis revealed a multiloculated large right renal abscess with staghorn calculus extending into the [...]

Case Presentation: A 50-year-old male with a history of smoking and current vape use presented with bilateral flank pain, chills, and dysuria. Two days earlier, he had been seen at an urgent care center, where urinalysis showed hematuria without infection, and a CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis was unremarkable. He was also diagnosed [...]