Case Presentation: A 19 year old female with a history of systemic lupus was found at home unresponsive by family and brought to a local ED. At the ED she was hyperthermic to 106F and hypotensive then transferred to Vidant Medical Center fevers and septic shock. Of note she had recently been discharged from Duke […]

Case Presentation: A 78 year old man presented with neck pain, fever, and malaise for 3 days. He noted progressively worsening pain and stiffness of the anterior neck bilaterally. He reported right- sided headache and subjective fevers but denied any photo or phonophobia. He had no sick contacts or recent travel. Past medical history included […]

Case Presentation: The patient is a 67-year-old male from India with a PMH of Ethanol abuse and type 2 diabetes mellitus. He was hospitalized recently in India for 10 days for Ethanol intoxication. The patient returned to America, suffered a mechanical fall, and was hospitalized for altered mental status secondary to Ethanol intoxication. He completed […]

Case Presentation: A 40-year-old G2P2 woman with a history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) that has been serologically and clinically quiescent for 15 years, lupus nephritis at 25-years-old that was treated with cyclophosphamide, and HELLP syndrome during her first pregnancy, presented with fatigue and dyspnea one month after her second son was delivered via C-section. […]

Background: Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP) is an idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia. The exact incidence, prevalence and pathogenesis are unknown. This retrospective study aims to reveal the prevalence of COP in hospitalized population and to investigate the odds ratio (OR) of COP in connective tissue disease (CTD) of interest including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus […]