Case Presentation: A 23-year-old female with a history of acne presented with abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea for 1 day. The pain was crampy in nature and located in her lower abdomen, without radiation or modifying factors.  She was passing frequent watery bowel movements with a small amount of blood. She denied any recent travel, [...]

Case Presentation: A 39 year old male with a history of alcohol abuse and recurrent methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia was referred for tertiary evaluation of recurrent bacteremia and diffuse eczematous eruption. He reported chronic diarrhea and long standing eczema with significant worsening of his rash in the last few months. A scaly and painful [...]

Case Presentation: A 41 year old African American man history presented with 8 months of diarrhea with tenesmus. He had no past medical history and took no home medications. He also complained of cough and 15 pound unintentional weight loss in the past month, but had no nausea or vomiting. He was febrile to 103.7, [...]

Case Presentation: Our patient is a 37-year-old gentleman with history of colonic Burkitt’s Lymphoma, in remission since 2010, eosinophilic colitis (on a prolonged steroid taper), CMV colitis, and common variable immunodeficiency, who presented with acute on chronic diarrhea. He incidentally noted worsening bilateral lower extremity weakness over the past 2 years, requiring the use of [...]

Case Presentation: A 79-year-old male patient with a history significant for metastatic melanoma to the right axillary lymph node and recurrent diarrhea secondary to ipilimumab-induced colitis is admitted for uncontrolled diarrhea with rectal bleeding.  He has had several prior admissions for diarrhea, which have been successfully treated with IV steroids, but has recurrent diarrhea when [...]

Case Presentation:  A 67-year-old female with a history of hypothyroidism, type II diabetes and hypertension presented with acute on chronic diarrhea.  She reported a 9-month history of profuse watery stools, up to 15 times per day.  Outpatient workup including infectious stool studies, celiac panel, and allergy testing, had been unrevealing. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy and colonoscopy with biopsies [...]