Case Presentation: A 43 year-old-woman with no known medical history presented with two months intermittent fever, cough, pleurisy, hematuria, and weight loss. On exam she had diffuse crackles and lower extremity edema. The patient was intubated for respiratory distress. Laboratory workup revealed acute anemia and urinalysis consistent with nephritic syndrome. Chest x-ray showed bilateral diffuse [...]

Case Presentation: Our patient is a 77-year-old female with no past medical history who presented with two weeks of dyspnea on exertion, scant hemoptysis, and rhinorrhea with occasional blood. Vitals showed tachycardia, tachypnea, and hypoxia with saturations 95% on 15 L/min via heated high flow nasal cannula. Exam revealed accessory muscle use, faint bibasilar rales, [...]

Case Presentation: A 36 year old man with a history of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) of unclear etiology was admitted with a three-week history of progressively worsening fatigue, weakness and lightheadedness. Further questioning revealed a 12 month history of hemoptysis which he described as productive of about a half-dollar amount of blood every morning. He [...]

Case Presentation: A 21-year-old man presented with two weeks of progressive dyspnea. He denied chest pain, lower extremity edema, orthopnea, melena, hematochezia, hemoptysis, cough, or fever. He had a previous presentation with similar symptoms of unknown etiology a few weeks before treated with steroids, blood transfusions, and antibiotics with improvement in symptoms. He was on [...]

Case Presentation: 51yoM with no significant medical history presents to ED for evaluation of progressive bilaterally injected, painful conjunctiva of 1 months duration, nonproductive cough and pleuritic chest pain of 1 week’s duration. He was recently treated with moxifloxacin for conjunctivitis without improvement in symptoms. After treatment, he developed nonproductive cough associated with pleurisy and [...]