Case Presentation: 71-year-old African American female with history of chronic right ear infection/mastoiditis, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, stroke with residual expressive aphasia, diabetes mellitus type II and atrial fibrillation, presented to the ED for diplopia and pain to the right face. Initially the diagnosis of giant-cell arteritis was entertained and temporal artery biopsy showed no evidence of […]

Case Presentation: A 64 year-old Caucasian man with a history of atrial-flutter and hypertension presented with nasal congestion, eye redness, headaches, and progressive hearing loss over 8 months. His longstanding partial left-sided hearing loss progressed to complete hearing loss. In addition, he developed a new right-sided hearing loss. He also complained of right-sided Bell’s Palsy, […]