Case Presentation: A 39-year-old man with no significant past medical history was hospitalized with a 2-week history of constant burning left upper quadrant pain, headaches, myalgias, and fever/chills. The patient reported camping in Pennsylvania 1 month prior to presentation. In the ED, he was initially found to be febrile to 102.4F and hypotensive to SBP […]

Case Presentation: 65 year-old woman with a history of essential thrombocythemia presents with four months of left upper quadrant abdominal pain. The patient was admitted to an outside hospital two weeks prior to the current admission with similar complaints, and was found to have a gastric ulcer that was helical pylori positive. The patient was […]

Case Presentation: 32-year-old previously healthy man presented with a week of fatigue and five days of low-grade fevers. He reported mild left abdominal pain worsened with inspiration. He denied a sore throat and other upper respiratory symptoms. He recently travelled to northern Wisconsin where he obtained multiple mosquito bites. He had been in contact with […]