Case Presentation: A 46 year-old male from India presented with acute epigastric abdominal pain, dysphagia, decreased appetite, nausea, and generalized weakness. This case starts 6 months prior to admission when he was found to have an elevated creatinine at a routine primary care visit. Subsequently, due to worsening kidney function, a kidney biopsy was performed […]

Case Presentation: An 84-year-old male veteran with prostate cancer s/p prostatectomy in 2002 with positive margins, uncontrolled type 2 diabetes, untreated hepatitis C, 50-pack-year history, presented for admission after routine labs at his primary care physician’s office revealed prominent eosinophilia of 6,900 and hyponatremia. The patient’s main complaint was generalized pruritus and a one-month pruritic […]

Case Presentation: A 24 year old Hispanic male with history of ESRD due to presumed medullary cystic disease who underwent DDKT x2 first in 2/2011 complicated by acute vascular rejection with loss of transplant, then again in 11/2011 which was complicated by antibody mediated rejection in 2015 that was treated with plasmapheresis developed a subacute […]