Background: Limited data exist about the magnitude of and the factors associated with one-year mortality of medical patients after their hospital discharge. Factors known during the hospitalization may be associated with high mortality risk. One may also wonder whether healthcare utilization during the first 30 days after discharge are also of any prognostic value for […]

Case Presentation: A 73‐year‐old man presented with fever, cough, expectoration, and weight loss for 2 months. Chest CT demonstrated a moderately thick‐walled irregular cavitary lesion in the left lung upper lobe, suspicious for abscess versus squamous cell carcinoma. Transbronchial lung biopsy showed benign pulmonary parenchyma with focal fibrosis and hemorrhage. Sputum gram stain did not […]