Case Presentation: An 80-year-old Korean gentleman with a past medical history of hypertension and dyslipidemia presented with a one week history of right eye ptosis and diplopia. He denied head/eye trauma, headaches or loss of consciousness. Also denied focal weakness of limbs, numbness/parasthesias, speech changes, or seizure activity. He reported no other symptoms. Distant smoking […]

Case Presentation: A 36-year old male with a history of paraplegia secondary to a motor vehicle accident and long-standing polysubstance abuse presents to the ED for worsening facial wounds that first appeared two years ago. The patient states the most recent lesion on the upper back appeared two months ago and was preceded by cocaine […]

Case Presentation: 39-year-old male with history of previously treated TB meningitis 15 years ago, chronic hydrocephalus who received endoscopic third ventriculostomy few months ago, presented again with headaches and was found to have hydrocephalus. Patient received Ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement and CSF was obtained after the procedure. CSF studies showed (216-WBCs lymphocytic predominant fluid 81 %), […]