Case Presentation: A 56-year-old male with a history of 45 pack-year smoking, peptic ulcer, and cholecystectomy 5 months ago presented with worsening epigastric pain and 70-pound weight loss over the last 3 months, associated with subjective fevers, drenching night sweat, and malaise. The patient was hospitalized a month ago for the same reason, when computed [...]

Case Presentation: A 55-year-old obese female presented with daily high fevers, chills, night sweats, malaise, decreased appetite, and nausea for two weeks. Her past medical history is significant for laparoscopic adjustable gastric band (LAGB) surgery eight (8) years prior. On presentation, she was febrile, tachycardic with pallor and hypotensive. Cardiopulmonary and abdominal examination was normal, [...]

Case Presentation: A 30-year-old woman was presented with two days progressive swelling and pain of her right hand after blunt trauma. The pain was associated with paresthesia of the right thumb and fever. There was no associated vaginal discharge, joint pain, sore throat or skin rash. Past medical history was significant for uncontrolled diabetes. The [...]

Case Presentation: A 37-year-old African American female with history of colitis presented with dyspnea and cough. Workup revealed a pleural-based left upper lobe mass and mediastinal lymphadenopathy. She denied exposure to mold, fungus, chemicals, inhalants, farms, or birds. Pathology was inconclusive but revealed poorly differentiated granulomas. She was given a diagnosis of sarcoidosis (without associated [...]

Case Presentation: A 55 year-old Korean male with a past medical history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia presented to the Emergency Department after feeling short of breath with chest pain, palpitations, mottled skin and blue lips. He endorsed five days of fever, headache, shortness of breath, abdominal pain and nausea. He denied recent travel and sick [...]

Case Presentation: A 24 year old, Chuukese-speaking woman visiting the United States from Micronesia, with no known past medical history, presented with complaint of 24 hours of acute epigastric pain. Patient was on no medications. Vital signs: temperature 36.4 degrees C, pulse 65, respirations 16, blood pressure 100/51. Exam showed mild epigastric and right upper [...]

Case Presentation: A 59 year-old woman with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus and end-stage kidney disease on hemodialysis presented with altered mental status and a suprapatellar abscess. Following irrigation and debridement, her course was complicated by septic shock. She was found with high-grade methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, and her blood cultures ultimately sterilized with IV cefazolin therapy. [...]