Case Presentation: The patient is a 66-year-old female with a past medical history of asthma-COPD overlap (ACO) with recent exacerbation who presented with sudden-onset severe dyspnea. Patient was intubated for ACO exacerbation three weeks prior to admission and was started on heparin for deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis with platelet at 293, 000/microliter. At the rehabilitation [...]

Case Presentation: A 74-year-old woman with type II diabetes mellitus, chronic hypertension, and neuropathy, presented to the hospital following a 9-day course of chest and back pain. She was found to have a late-presenting anterolateral myocardial infarction and was transferred to a cardiac ICU after developing cardiogenic shock secondary to a ventricular septal rupture. An [...]