Case Presentation: A 46-year-old male with history of hypertension and Covid-19 illness seven months ago presented to the ER complaining of left flank pain for the past six days.Pain was described as sharp, constant, initiating on his left flank and radiating to the upper abdomen. He denied dysuria, hematuria, fevers, sick contacts, or trauma. No [...]

Case Presentation: An otherwise healthy 69-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with a 3-month history of progressive dyspnea on exertion and anasarca following out-patient transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) demonstrating a large pericardial effusion and early signs of cardiac tamponade based on exaggerated mitral inflow velocity with respiration. Physical exam revealed jugular venous distension and a [...]

Case Presentation: A 58-year-old male with medical history of resected melanoma presented to our hospital with fatigue and exertional dyspnea of 1-week duration. He was found to have complete heart block and a large pericardial effusion. A dual chamber pacemaker was implanted, and pericardial drain was placed. The pericardial fluid was negative for malignancy and [...]

Case Presentation: A 15-year-old female was transferred to our facility with a complaint of worsening chest pain for the previous two weeks. The pain initially started in her shoulders and then spread to her substernal area. She had initially presented to the same facility three days previously and was discharged with a diagnosis of musculoskeletal [...]