Case Presentation: A 29 year-old woman with sickle cell disease (SCD) on hydroxyurea and L-glutamine, and mild intermittent asthma presented to our institution with right lower extremity and back pain suggestive of a vaso-occlusive crisis. She did not report fever, cough or dyspnea. Vital signs revealed a heart rate of 91/min, blood pressure of 126/86 […]

Case Presentation: 70 year old man with a history of hepatitis C, diabetes mellitus type 2, hypertension, and coronary artery disease presents with worsening pneumonia.  The patient had recently traveled to Italy for 2 weeks with his wife and on return to the United States developed subjective fevers, dizziness and knee pain for one week.  […]