Case Presentation: A 38 year old woman with a history of alcohol use disorder was admitted with a month of gradually progressive weakness of the legs. She then developed shoulder girdle weakness, and eventually weakness, tingling, and numbness of the hands and feet. The day prior to her presentation, she developed dysarthria, shortness of breath, [...]

Case Presentation: A 41-year-old male with a history of amphetamine use and an inguinal hernia presented with epigastric abdominal pain with associated subjective fevers, and non-bloody, non-bilious emesis. On presentation, he was tachycardic, febrile to 39.8 degrees Fahrenheit, and hypotensive with a mean arterial pressure (MAP) of 57. An infectious work-up was performed with his [...]

Case Presentation: The patient was an 85-year-old female who presented to the hospital with encephalopathy, rigors, new onset atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response and shock. Her past medical history was only noted as dementia and hypertension. Due to her change in mental status, CT head and CTA head and neck were obtained which did [...]

Case Presentation: The day before his wedding, a 22-year-old male presented to the emergency department with one week of worsening joint pain, myalgias, headache, and rash. Symptoms began weeks after visiting a park in Michigan and several days after walking in tall grass during his bachelor party in Iowa. He presented to the emergency department [...]

Case Presentation: 84-year-old female who came to hospital with complaints of mild watery diarrhea, generalized weakness, subjective fevers and chills for 4 days. Patient has PMH hypothyroidism, chronic dysphagia, inclusion body myositis, interstitial lung disease, and pulmonary hypertension. Patient lives alone and due to increasing weakness was brought in by family for further evaluation. In [...]

Case Presentation: A 49-year-old male presented from his PCP office with a ten-day history of diarrhea, 20-pound weight loss, and severe hypotension. His history included Type II Diabetes Mellitus controlled with tirzepatide 2.5mg weekly injection, hypertension on 40 mg lisinopril, obesity class III, obstructive sleep apnea, and gout on daily allopurinol. He was originally prescribed [...]