Case Presentation: A 70 year-old Moroccan male with a history of gastrointestinal stromal tumor treated with resection and chemotherapy was admitted for dyspnea on exertion and non-productive cough for two weeks. He complained of subjective fevers and weight loss of 47 pounds in 6 months but denied hemoptysis. Lab studies were significant for leukocytosis at [...]

Case Presentation: A 54 year-old man with a history of opioid use disorder, housing insecurity and hypoplastic myelodysplastic syndrome presented with one month of shortness of breath, productive cough, fever, and chills. He also endorsed a twenty pound weight loss over the course of three months. He had presented to an outside hospital three weeks [...]

Case Presentation: A 79-year-old female nonsmoker with chronic bronchiectasis on 3 liters of home oxygen presented with worsening shortness of breath. The patient’s baseline creatinine (cr) was 0.85 mg/dL, eGFR 60, and she was admitted with cr of 2.2 mg/dL. Urinalysis showed proteinuria, pyuria, hematuria with few bacteria, with new onset anemia (Hgb 7.8) on [...]