Case Presentation: A 60-year-old male with a history of diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and ventricular tachycardia treated with amiodarone for three total years prior to orthotopic heart transplant one year ago was admitted to the hospital for abdominal pain. He was diagnosed with cholecystitis and underwent uncomplicated laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The postoperative hospital course was complicated [...]

Case Presentation: A 73-year-old female with coronary artery disease, biventricular systolic heart failure requiring implantable cardiac defibrillator (ICD), paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (A-fib) treated with amiodarone for 2 years presented with abdominal pain, nausea, loss of appetite for 1 month. She also reported a recent ICD discharge. Initial vital signs were remarkable for a blood pressure [...]

Case Presentation: A 75 year-old man presented with one month of leg swelling and early satiety. He had a history of coronary artery disease and atrial fibrillation (managed with amiodarone for the past 2 years). He recently initiated furosemide treatment but had no history of symptomatic heart failure. Physical exam showed elevated jugular venous pressures, an irregularly irregular heart [...]

Case Presentation: A middle-aged man with a history of heart failure and atrial fibrillation presented to the hospital with subacutely worsening dyspnea. He had hypoxemia, crackles on pulmonary auscultation, and diffuse airspace opacities on chest radiograph. Admission was requested for presumed exacerbation of heart failure. Upon closer examination, he no edema or elevated jugular venous [...]

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: An 87-year-old man with medical history significant for hypertension, non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (anticoagulated on Rivaroxaban) and ventricular tachycardia (recently started on Amiodarone) presented to the emergency room with chest pain. He reported that the pain started insidiously 2 days prior to presentation, pleuritic, sharp, retrosternal and intermittent, associated with diaphoresis and [...]

Case Presentation: An 88-year-old woman with past medical history of atrial fibrillation (on apixaban), CVA, glaucoma, and HTN presented to the ED after a witnessed cardiac arrest at home (downtime ~28 minutes) with ROSC achieved by EMS. As per the daughter, the patient was recently treated for a UTI with cephalexin and had been notified [...]