Case Presentation: A 54-year-old male with past medical history of ulcerative colitis not on active treatment and DM type II presented to his primary care provider (PCP) with right ear pain and swelling which began a week prior. His PCP added oral clindamycin, Cortisporin otic drops, and later prednisone when his pain and swelling did [...]

Case Presentation: This is a case of a 37-year-old female with a 9 month history of moderate ulcerative pancolitis (UC) who was admitted with worsening abdominal pain, a 30 lb weight loss, nausea, vomiting, and bloody diarrhea. She had been treated with mesalamine, vedolizumab, and infliximab with no improvement and refused corticosteroid therapy due to [...]

Case Presentation: A 40-year-old man with well controlled HIV and mild left-sided ulcerative colitis (UC) diagnosed 10 years earlier presented with several weeks of up to 10 watery stools per day with mild non-radiating crampy abdominal pain which improved after bowel movements. There was no hematochezia, tenesmus, weight loss, recent travel or sick contacts. His [...]

Case Presentation: This is the case of a 77-year-old male who was treated for endocarditis that seeded from a chronic upper extremity wound. The patient had a history of chronic atrial fibrillation and was status post placement of an AICD pacemaker. He initially presented to a community hospital with altered mental status and was found [...]

Case Presentation: 64-year-old female with a past medical history of cerebral palsy presented with recurrent fever. One week earlier, she had been hospitalized for sialadenitis and pneumonia and completed a 10 day course of antibiotics. Family reported recurrent fevers (Tm 102F) after discharge with associated mucosal ulcerations and chronic intermittent joint pain. She did not [...]

Case Presentation: 87-year-old man with a past medical history of wild type ATTR cardiac amyloidosis and atrial fibrillation, presented with a progressive right lower extremity ulcer. The wound initially started as a “pinhole” after dropping a toothpaste cap on the calf and progressed in the next three months despite multiple courses of antibiotics and wound [...]

Case Presentation: Case 1: A 3-year-old female with no significant past medical history presented with a 5-week history of recurrent fevers as well as bilateral lower extremity pain with difficulty to ambulate. Imaging of the femur revealed focal lucencies in the proximal femoral shaft. The leading diagnosis at admission was malignancy given the length of [...]