Case Presentation: A 63-year-old man with significant history of deceased donor transplant (18 months prior to presentation), hypertension, diabetes mellitus, who presented with two weeks of fevers and malaise. His other symptoms included drenching night sweats, shortness of breath, and diffuse pleuritic chest pain, however he denied cough. A recent exposure was a renovation of […]

Case Presentation: A 39-year-old African-American male with a history of chronic kidney disease (baseline creatinine 3), congestive heart failure, hypertension, diabetes initially presented to the hospital with chest pain and found to have hypertensive emergency with BP 202/138 and pulse 112. New echocardiogram showed severe mitral regurgitation with reduced ejection fraction of 45%. He received […]