Case Presentation: A 45-year-old male with a past medical history of Myelodysplastic Syndrome, Atrial Fibrillation, and Type 2 Diabetes presented for evaluation of worsening diffuse, erythematous, and painful rash all over his body. The rash initially began 2 months ago and was biopsied at an outside hospital. The biopsy was read as a “dermal hypersensitivity [...]

Case Presentation: A 62-year-old man with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and melanoma presented to our tertiary care hospital from an outside institution with 3-4 weeks of rapidly progressive skin nodules, a 10 pound weight loss, and diffuse joint aches. The nodules were of varying sizes, first appearing along his clavicle and progressively spreading throughout [...]

Case Presentation: A 56-year-old female with a prior history of acute myeloid leukemia, status-post allogenic stem cell transplant in 2016 (in remission), complicated by chronic graft versus host disease (on mycophenolate), and pulmonary coccidioidomycosis in 2000 presented due to hemoptysis. She experienced 7 days of blood-tinged sputum with upper respiratory symptoms preceding that. Five weeks [...]

Case Presentation: Our 28-year-old female patient with a history of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplant presented to the Emergency Department (ED) for the evaluation of intermittent confusion and word-finding difficulty for one week. The patient’s vitals on admission were within normal limits. A physical examination was significant for diffuse [...]

Case Presentation: We describe a case of TTP that developed subsequent to diagnosis and empiric treatment of AML. The patient was a 71 year old male with a past medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and stage III CKD who presented with a three-week history of fatigue, fevers, chills, and dyspnea. He was found to have [...]

Case Presentation: A 66-year-old male with a past medical history of hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and diabetes initially presented to the hospital with shortness of breath, fatigue, and several episodes of bloody stool after two weeks of intermittent bloody stool at home. He reported that he had seen his PCP who had initiated a workup but [...]

Case Presentation: A 58-year-old male presented to the hospital with several days of fatigue and shortness of breath. His vitals were initially stable, and labs showed a hemoglobin of 4.2 (normal 13.5—17.5), white blood cell count WBC 20.1 (4.5—11.0), and platelet count 43 (160—420), BNP 617 (0—900 pg/ml). He received one unit of packed red [...]