Case Presentation: A 64 year-old man with a history of coronary artery disease status post 5-vessel coronary artery bypass grafting and subsequent percutaneous coronary intervention, essential hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) presented to the hospital with a 4 month history of chronic progressive abdominal pain and diarrhea with a 70 pound unintentional […]

Case Presentation: A 59-year-old woman presented with acute worsening of chronic abdominal pain and nausea. Her past medical history included a stable type-B aortic dissection. Over the previous year, she had multiple hospitalizations for postprandial abdominal pain associated with nausea and vomiting. The pain had been increasing in severity and had led to a 10-pound […]

Case Presentation: Case of 53 years old female with a past medical history of rheumatoid arthritis, coronary artery disease and peripheral vascular disease who presented with worsening postprandial right upper quadrant abdominal pain. Pain was described as intermittent, sharp, and stabbing. The patient also reported a 20-30 pounds’ unintentional weight loss over 6 months and […]

Case Presentation: 29-year-old female with a history of cervical cancer status post cervix removal in 2014 and epilepsy presented to the emergency department with a three-month history of chronic generalized abdominal pain, failure to thrive, 40 lb. unintentional weight loss and anorexia that had acutely worsened in the previous two weeks. One day prior to […]

Case Presentation: A 44-year-old African-American male with past medical history of hypertension, asthma and obesity, presented to the emergency room with acute onset, constant, severe lower abdominal pain of two days duration which was throbbing and aching in quality without any radiation. He also endorsed nausea & loose stools. Of note, his hypertension was newly […]

Case Presentation: West Nile (WN) virus, a member of the Japanese encephalitis virus antigenic complex, is the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the continental United States. Approximately 1 out of 250 patients develop neuroinvasive disease including encephalitis, meningitis, acute flaccid paralysis and opsoclonus-myoclonus syndrome (OMS). Sparse data exist regarding potential treatments for WN virus […]