Case Presentation: A 63-year-old man was admitted to the hospital medicine service at a quaternary center for painful oral lesions that appeared 6 months prior. The lesions had started as multifocal soreness in the mouth floor 2 weeks after having undergone dental work. He was then evaluated by local oral surgery team who performed biopsies [...]

Case Presentation: A 60-year-old African woman presented to the emergency department with three days of abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. She had recently returned from a ten-month trip through rural Ethiopia where she consumed unpasteurized milk and well water with exposure to goats, cats, and livestock. Her medical history was otherwise unremarkable. On exam, she [...]

Case Presentation: A 27-year-old male with a history of HIV, well-controlled on HAART, presented with persistent hematochezia, rectal pain, and constipation for a month. His history was notable for unprotected anal receptive intercourse. Patient was reportedly seen at multiple other hospitals and received empiric treatments for gonorrhea, chlamydia & syphilis without relief. He was compliant [...]

Case Presentation: A 46-year-old woman with no past medical history presented with right upper quadrant pain, jaundice, and pruritus after undergoing a liver biopsy at an outside hospital. At the outside hospital, she had these same symptoms with hyperbilirubinemia and transaminitis. HIDA scan was negative. The liver biopsy showed marked portal and pan-lobular inflammatory infiltration [...]