Case Presentation: A 38 year old lady with past medical history of recurrent kidney stones presented to the emergency department with a 1 day history of lethargy, confusion, and severe right sided abdominal pain. She was febrile with temperature of 38.9oC and tachycardic with heart rate of 168 bpm. She had leukocytosis of 13,000/ml and [...]

Case Presentation: A 60 year-old woman with chronic mesenteric ischemia was admitted for symptomatic inferior mesenteric artery (IMA) stenosis. She underwent IMA stent placement with a postoperative course notable for abdominal pain and nausea. Two weeks later, she was transferred to a medicine service for uncontrolled hypertension. Overnight, the patient had sudden-onset nausea and vomiting [...]

Case Presentation: A 22-year-old Hispanic male presented with a 4 day history of rectal and abdominal pain. He denied any previous medical history. He also noted three months of productive cough, pyrexia, chills, night sweats, fatigue, and weight loss. Physical examination revealed right lower quadrant tenderness accompanied by abdominal rigidity and involuntary guarding. The patient declined digital rectal examination. [...]

Case Presentation: A 93-year-old female was brought by her daughter via EMS to the emergency department with complaints of vomiting and drowsiness. She was treated, 2 weeks prior, with Cefalexin for a presumed UTI. After antibiotics initiation, the patient developed multiple episodes of non-bloody, watery diarrhea, with subsequent drowsiness, confusion, and poor appetite. She denied [...]