Case Presentation: A 92-year-old women with a medical history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and surgical resection of colon and renal cancer presented to the emergency department with high-grade fever and purulent sputum. She visited her primary care physician with the complaint of fever 5 days prior to visiting our hospital and was prescribed antibiotics [...]

Case Presentation: A 45 year-old gentleman with a history of recurrent alcoholic pancreatitis complicated by pancreatic pseudocyst presented to the hospital after three episodes of hematochezia. Ten days prior, he had undergone endoscopic transgastric metal stent placement between his pseudocyst and stomach, followed 6 days later by pseudocyst drainage with necrosectomy. After 3 days, he [...]

Case Presentation: 56-year-old man with past medical history of abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery was brought to the Emergency Room for change in mental status and having bloody vomitus and melenic stool. On admission, abdominal exam was unremarkable, blood pressure was 110/77 mmHg, heart rate 103/min, Temperature 99.8 °C, Respiratory rate 20 per minute, hemoglobin 11.1 [...]

Case Presentation: This is a 58 year old male with a past medical history of MDD, GAD, history of polysubstance abuse, history of enterococcus bacteremia complicated by aortic valve endocarditis status post valvular replacement and hemorrhagic stroke who was admitted to the hospital for urosepsis. Of note, this patient was previously hospitalized for Lactobacillus bacteremia [...]

Case Presentation: A 77-year-old caucasian man with a known history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia and tobacco abuse initially presented to the hospital with chest pain for five days. He was diagnosed with an anterior wall ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). He underwent cardiac catheterization with drug-eluting stent placement to the left anterior descending coronary artery. Subsequent [...]