Case Presentation: A 70-year-old Vietnamese gentleman without a significant past medical history was admitted to the hospital after a mechanical fall. Apart from facial pain related to the fall, the patient did not report any other symptoms. He was afebrile and hemodynamically stable. His physical examination was unremarkable. During his trauma evaluation, bilateral apical pulmonary [...]

Case Presentation: We present the case of a 31 year old primigravida African American woman who presented to her post-partum follow up clinic visit two weeks after Cesarean section delivery of a preterm live infant at 29 weeks. She was found to be in hypertensive emergency (220/120 mmHg), with complaints of acute diffuse abdominal pain, [...]

Case Presentation: A 37-year-old Caucasian male with a history of uncontrolled diabetes and tobacco abuse presented with right flank pain, hematuria, and pyuria. He had several days of fever with temperature of 38.8 upon initial evaluation and white blood cell count was 19.2. His urinalysis had more than 100 white blood cells, more than 100 [...]

Case Presentation: A 63-year-old Hispanic man from Mexico, with a history of hypertension and obesity, presented in September to an outside hospital with high fevers. He worked as a truck driver primarily in Arizona. He had a witnessed seizure and developed persistent altered mental status. The patient rapidly decompensated into septic shock requiring vasopressors, and [...]

Case Presentation: A 57-year-old African-American male, with past medical history of nonischemic cardiomyopathy, moderate aortic insufficiency, HTN, and cocaine abuse presented to the emergency room with complaints of shortness of breath (SOB), and chest pain (CP). He admitted to using cocaine on his birthday party, which was 5 days ago. After using cocaine he started [...]