Case Presentation: A 94-year-old female with a past medical history of cerebrovascular accident (no residual effects) presented with an intertrochanteric fracture of the right proximal femur after a mechanical fall. On arrival, the patient was afebrile, vital signs hemodynamically stable. On exam, the patient was alert and oriented x3 with no focal deficits, extremities warm [...]

Case Presentation: An 87-year-old female with a history of end stage renal disease on hemodialysis (HD), presented to the ED with slurred speech, altered mental status, and generalized weakness for a day. At baseline she was alert and oriented to person, place, and time. Four days prior to admission, she was diagnosed with herpes zoster [...]

Case Presentation: A 30-year-old male with history of illicit drug abuse presents with refractory ventricular tachycardia (VT) and Torsades de Pointes (TdP). He was previously in a methadone program but was dismissed due to methadone abuse. He then started significant amounts (144 tablets; 288 mg) of loperamide to achieve euphoria. He presented to the ED [...]

Case Presentation: Four years after kidney transplantation a 65 year-old woman with type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and no psychiatric history is referred to the hospital by her primary care physician to evaluate altered mental status. She was successfully maintained on tacrolimus with stable trough levels. During the preceding three months she had developed progressive symptoms [...]

Case Presentation: 64-year-old man with history of schizoaffective disorder, hypertension, cigarette smoker (quit recently) was admitted to the hospital with acute onset recurrent falls in the last 2 weeks. Medications include buspirone 10mg, amlodipine 2.5 mg, metoprolol 50 mg, clozapine 450 mg. He had hypotension on presentation, which improved with fluids. Symptomatic orthostatic hypotension persisted [...]

Case Presentation: A 69-year-old female with a history of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, atrial fibrillation on Amiodarone since 2 months prior, type 2 diabetes who presented to the primary care clinic due to shortness of breath. She was diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia 3 weeks ago that was treated with Doxycycline without improvement. She continued to spike fevers [...]

Case Presentation: We present a 65-year-old, woman who had developed pseudomonas bacteremia after a complicated femoral artery thrombosis s/p transcatheter repair of the mitral valve. The patient was discharged home on a 6-week course of IV cefepime for concerns of possible mitral valve endocarditis. Within 2 weeks of discharge, the patient had been brought back [...]

Case Presentation: A 59-year-old male with a past medical history of end-stage renal disease on hemodialysis, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and a recent diagnosis of multi-microorganism osteomyelitis due to diabetic foot ulcer on intravenous vancomycin and ertapenem for the past 2 weeks presented to the hospital for visual and auditory hallucinations. The symptoms started shortly after [...]

Case Presentation: 82-year-old female with atrial fibrillation, non-ischemic cardiomyopathy (EF 25%), rheumatoid arthritis, bed bound at home with hospice care presents for acute encephalopathy and tachycardia. Patient’s son (the primary caregiver) reported that patient is on four drops of oral 1% atropine solution daily for bronchorrhea. Accidentally a family member who is not a primary [...]

Case Presentation: An elderly man was diagnosed with clear cell renal cell carcinoma in 1987, and treated with left nephrectomy, though developed multi-organ metastatic disease in 2015. After he did not tolerate initial treatment with sunitinib, he received 15 cycles of NKTR-214 and nivolumab as part of a phase I/II study. Three months after his [...]