Case Presentation: An 86 years old male with a history of pulmonary fibrosis, HTN, CHF, RA, valve replacement presented after left eye transient visual loss and exertional dyspnea. He reported an episode of painless vision loss in the left eye, felt like a grey curtain was pulled down over his left eye and lasted about 30 seconds. He […]

Case Presentation: Fibrillary glomerulonephritis and immunotactoid glomerulopathy are rare renal disorders, being present in 0.5 to 1.4 percent of kidney biopsies. Although they are distinct glomerulopathies, they are both nonamyloid fibrillary glomerular diseases and as such, they are Congo red negative on immunohistochemistry. Discussion: Patient is a 75 years old male with PMH of HTN, […]

Case Presentation: A 57-year-old man presented with three weeks of palpable petechial rash, abdominal pain, polyarthralgia and edema. The rash started as “red dots” on his abdomen and spread throughout his body. On exam, he exhibited diffuse palpable purpura with blistering to his bilateral feet. Initial work up was notable for creatinine (Cr) 3.30 from […]

Case Presentation: A 39-year-old male with no known history presented with complaints of back pain and shortness of breath for four days. Work up initially revealed pyelonephritis. The patient was treated with Amoxicillin-Clavunate. After a month, patient was re-evaluated for increased shortness of breath, fatigue, abdominal pain, diffuse arthralgia, and a new rash. The shortness […]

Case Presentation: An 82-year-old female with past medical history of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, hypertension, CKD stage 3, and recurrent Pseudomonas aeruginosa urinary tract infection was admitted to a cardiology inpatient service for generalized weakness and atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response.Her recurrent UTIs had been occurring monthly for the past year. She was noted to […]

Case Presentation: A 27-year-old African American female with recent diagnosis of SLE and pending initiation of treatment presented to the outpatient clinic with nausea and vomiting. She was sent to the ED after failing symptomatic treatment for 7 days. In the ED she was found to have fever, tachycardia, periorbital swelling, and tender right submandibular […]

Case Presentation: Introduction: Mixed Cryoglobulinemia (MC) is a rare subtype of the Cryoglobulinemia disorders which are caused by precipitation of immune complexes in the serum at cold temperature. MC involves more than one immunoglobulin component, i.e. IgM, rheumatoid factor (RF) and can be classified further as Type II or III. MC has associations with both […]

Case Presentation: A 69 year-old man with a history of urothelial carcinoma of the bladder status-post cystoprostatectomy with ileal conduit presented with fatigue, tachycardia, night sweats, and foul-smelling urine. At an outside hospital, he had recently been diagnosed with a new 11cm right renal mass with apparent diaphragmatic invasion. On exam, he was a pale, […]

Case Presentation: A 50-year-old male with a past medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus presented with gangrene of his left foot. The foot was erythematous with pustular eruptions. His symptoms included fevers, chills, and the inability to move his fourth and fifth digits. He was afebrile, with a leukocytosis of 19.6, erythrocyte sedimentation rate […]

Case Presentation: A 32 years of male with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) on immunosuppression presented with complaints of fever, abdominal pain and diarrhea. His stool had many WBCs, C. diff was negative and CT of the abdomen revealed enterocolitis. His anaerobic blood culture bottles grew Salmonella group from the nonTyphi subtypes. Further history disclosed that he […]