Case Presentation: A 35 year old African American woman with a past medical history of alcohol and tobacco abuse and acute pancreatitis presented to the hospital with a progressive dyspnea and nonproductive cough for one month not responding to outpatient antibiotics. Six months prior to presentation, she was hospitalized for acute pancreatitis that was attributed […]

Case Presentation: A 41-year-old super morbidly obese man (245.4 kg, BMI= 82 kg/m2) presented to the emergency room 9 days after  laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy complaining of sudden dyspnea, dry cough, palpitations, and painful left lower leg swelling. He denied chest pain, fever, nausea or vomiting and had no personal or family history of venous thromboembolism […]