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 57-year-old Hispanic man with a past medical history of essential hypertension and nephrolithiasis, presents to the emergency room with a witnessed syncopal event lasting less than a minute. He also refers a two day history of subjective fever and dysuria associated with nausea and anorexia. Further review of systems was unremarkable. He [...]