Case Presentation: A 65‐year‐old man with a medical history significant for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy presented with a 3‐week history of mid‐sternal chest pain, fevers, and sweats. His primary care physician sent him to the emergency department after outpatient blood cultures returned positive for S. viridans. He denied recent dental procedures, surgeries, or cough. Physical exam revealed […]

Case Presentation: A 30-year-old male with history of illicit drug abuse presents with refractory ventricular tachycardia (VT) and Torsades de Pointes (TdP). He was previously in a methadone program but was dismissed due to methadone abuse. He then started significant amounts (144 tablets; 288 mg) of loperamide to achieve euphoria. He presented to the ED […]

Case Presentation: A 37 year-old woman with a past medical history of depression and chronic knee pain presented with complaints of two day duration non-radiating 8/10 epigastric and lower abdominal pain associated with nausea and vomiting. Vitals sings were normal. Abdomen was soft, non-distended with generalized tenderness, but without masses, rebound, or guarding. Lipase was […]

Case Presentation: Coronary artery aneurysms (CAA) are incidental findings during coronary angiography noted during 0.15-4.9% of patients[1]. These are usually a consequence of atherosclerotic coronary disease, the absence of which should raise the suspicion of prior incomplete Kawasaki disease (KD)[2]. We present one such case noted at an academic tertiary medical center in India.  A […]