Case Presentation: A 65-year old man with a history of coronary artery disease, heart failure, and Crohn’s disease, who is a resident of northern Wisconsin presented with fevers, headache, and neck stiffness. Due to concern for meningitis, he was started empirically on Ceftriaxone, Vancomycin, Ampicillin, and Acyclovir. One day after initiation of therapy, he developed […]

Case Presentation: A 54-year-old female with history of hypothyroidism, surgically treated lumbar radiculopathy and neck sarcoma status post resection and radiochemotherapy was brought to the emergency department (ED) by the police. She was unwilling to speak and history was initially obtained from her son. He states that she has been acting oddly for a year, […]

Case Presentation: A 36 year old African-American gentleman with a history of asthma presented to the Emergency Department with dizziness, numbness of both lower extremities, gait imbalance, bowel and bladder incontinence which had been worsening since the last 2 months. MRI thoracic spine revealed Focus of abnormal T2 signal within the upper thoracic spinal cord […]