Case Presentation: A 77 year-old Hispanic woman with a past medical history of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), atrial fibrillation, and chronic kidney disease presented with progressive dyspnea and increased lower extremity swelling for two days. She had been admitted for decompensated heart failure two months earlier, when a cardiac catheterization revealed no […]

Case Presentation: A 62-year-old female with a past medical history of stroke, obesity, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia presented to the emergency department with fever and altered mental status. She was started on empiric meningitis treatment and her mentation improved dramatically with eventual return to baseline. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) studies from a lumbar puncture performed later during […]