Case Presentation: A 53‐year‐old woman was admitted with complaints of headache, nausea and generalized malaise for 2 weeks duration. Her primary care doctor had treated her symptomatically prior to admission. Her symptoms progressed with more severe intermittent holocranial headaches, worsened by head and neck movement, bright lights and loud noises, associated with photophobia and nausea. […]

Case Presentation: A 30-year-old morbidly obese woman with a history of Lynch syndrome (hereditary non‐polyposis colorectal cancer), who presented with complaints of lower back pain and subjective fevers. Six months before this presentation she was diagnosed with a large lower paraspinal hematoma treated with embolization and gel foam implantation. Upon presentation, the patient was vitally […]

Case Presentation: A 76-year-old Chinese woman with history of cryptogenic cirrhosis (MELD-Na 25) presented to our hospital with 1 week of worsening jaundice, abdominal distension, and right upper quadrant pain. Cirrhosis was diagnosed by imaging on admission 2 months previously and presumed to be secondary to Hepatitis C infection due to antibody positivity. CT of […]

Case Presentation: A 42 y/o Hispanic female with a history of IV drug abuse and dermatitis since 2005 with recurrent episodes of cellulitis presented to the hospital with severe edema, erythema and pain of the right lower extremity for 3 days. She had been treated with steroid injections and topical steroids intermittently for her dermatitis […]

Case Presentation: A 28-year-old male with a recently diagnosed HIV infection presented to the hospital with dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain and fatigue for 4 days. Six weeks prior, he was found to have HIV infection with a CD4+ cell count of 17 cells/ul and an HIV viral load of 41,399 copies/mL. He was prescribed antiretroviral […]

Background: Hospital‐acquired methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HA‐MRSA) infections annually affect almost 21,000 patients nationwide. Randomized controlled trials have demonstrated the efficacy of chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) in preventing HA‐MRSA infections associated with invasive procedures. Several small studies involving CHG baths in the intensive care unit (ICU) have demonstrated a reduction in HA‐MRSA colonization and bacteremia. However, the […]