Case Presentation: 58 year-old woman with history of chronic kidney disease, insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, and hypertension presented with three weeks of worsening generalized weakness. She denied recent vomiting, diarrhea, or polyuria. Laboratories revealed severe hypokalemia with potassium of 2.3 mEq/L, sodium of 141 mEq/L, magnesium of 1.5 mEq/L, glucose of 129 mEq/L, creatinine of […]

Case Presentation: A 7-year-old child with homozygous sickle cell disease presented with 12 hours of extremity pain consistent with a vaso-occlusive pain crisis and was admitted to the pediatric floor. The following evening he developed left eye pain, diplopia, severe left-sided periorbital edema and proptosis with inferior globe displacement and decreased extraocular motility, over a […]