Case Presentation: A 26 year old previously healthy male presented with complaints of right leg weakness and urinary retention.  Three weeks prior, he experienced back pain in the setting of a lifting injury at work and was treated symptomatically for low back strain.  Two weeks later, he began having right leg weakness and tingling which [...]

Case Presentation: A 75 year old Caucasian woman, previously diagnosed ET and atrial fibrillation, presented to emergency room with acute on chronic shortness of breath. Her dyspnea was earlier attributed to chronic bronchitis in the absence of evidence of any other pathology. However, this time she had bilateral coarse crackles which correlated with her chest [...]

Case Presentation: A 42-year-old male with a history of T2DM, subacute bilateral LE weakness and paresthesia presented with UTI, urinary retention and anejaculation. One month prior to admission the patient was taken to the ED after a fall with worsening bilateral lower extremity weakness. An MRI of the lumbosacral spine was performed which showed an [...]

Case Presentation: A 46 year-old woman presented with one week of palpitations and dyspnea on exertion. Her medical history was remarkable for a pericardial effusion of unknown etiology two months prior, treated with pericardiocentesis in Guyana. On presentation she was hemodynamically stable. Exam was significant for distant heart sounds and decreased breath sounds at the [...]

Case Presentation: A 59-year-old woman with a history of ductal carcinoma in situ status post mastectomy presented with dizziness exacerbated by change of head position. Patient endorsed a history of intermittent dizziness in the past few weeks, which caused her to fall on her right hip on three occasions. Hip radiograph showed no evidence of [...]