Case Presentation: 32-year-old male with history of Stevens Johnson’s syndrome secondary to sulfa allergy presented to the emergency department with vomiting, non-bloody diarrhea, chills and fatigue after returning from a 2-week trip to Africa. He was diagnosed with E coli gastroenteritis and discharged home. He returned four days later with on-going fevers, vomiting, diarrhea, body [...]

Case Presentation: A 34-year-old male smoker with no significant medical history presented to the ED with fever and bilateral inguinal lymph node swelling and pain for one week duration. Patient recently emigrated from China two months prior and traveled through the rainforests of Colombia, where he resided for two days, then El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, [...]

Case Presentation: A 25-year-old Wolof-speaking male who recently arrived from Senegal with remote history of malaria (unclear treatment, no hospitalization) presented to the hospital with a three-day history of dull global headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, watery diarrhea, and hematuria. Upon arrival, he was noted to be diaphoretic, dehydrated, tachycardic, and hypoglycemic. Labs were significant for [...]

Case Presentation: A 23-year-old male presented to the emergency department after experiencing three nocturnal fevers over the preceding week. On further examination, he was febrile (38.5°C) and exhibited mild thrombocytopenia, lymphopenia, and hyperbilirubinemia. The patient had emigrated from the Democratic Republic of Congo three years earlier and had not traveled outside the United States since [...]

Case Presentation: A 38-year-old woman with a history of recent pelvic fractures presented for admission per her primary care physician due to progressive hip pain and difficulty ambulating, with the hope of expediting a diagnosis of the underlying etiology. Patient had had multiple recent presentations with similar complaints. Imaging studies prior to admission revealed bilateral [...]

Case Presentation: An 84-year-old male with a past medical history significant for improving chronic kidney disease stage 3 (baseline creatinine of 0.72 mg/dL) and prediabetes presented to the emergency department with altered mental status and poor oral intake from a low resource facility. Patient was recently hospitalized for perforated diverticulitis after sigmoidectomy and ostomy complicated [...]