Case Presentation: An 80- year old immunocompetent Vietnamese man with hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and prostate cancer in remission was admitted for progressive vision loss and headaches. 6 weeks before presentation he began to have persistent, disabling left fronto-temporal headaches. 2 weeks prior he developed sudden left sided vision loss. Outpatient left temporal artery biopsy was [...]

Case Presentation: A 36-year-old male with a history of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) treated with Hyper-CVAD with intrathecal chemotherapy and allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) from a haploidentical donor (CMV D-/R+). His ALL relapsed 8 months after transplant and he subsequently underwent pre-phase chemotherapy for future CAR T-cell therapy, developing pancytopenia. He was [...]

Case Presentation: A 50 year-old African American male with type 2 diabetes requiring insulin, end stage renal disease on peritoneal dialysis, coronary artery disease, infertility, chronic pancreatitis, alcohol use disorder, and recent influenza presented with fever and cough. He was afebrile, hypotensive, tachycardic, and tachypneic with a leukocytosis and bibasilar consolidations on chest x-ray. He [...]

Case Presentation: 23- year old Latino male with no known history presented to the ER complaining of worsening left eye pain. Patient stated that he has been cleaning manmade lakes and for one week started to have an erythematous and painful left eye associated with persistent frontal headache, and blurry vision. Patient endorsed recent diagnosis [...]

Case Presentation: A 71-year-old male with a history of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) presented with shortness of breath and weakness. He had been diagnosed with CLL eight years ago and was placed on acalabrutinib 3 months previously. He was hospitalized twice in the prior 2 months for pneumonia.The patient was found to be tachycardic (102/min), [...]

Case Presentation: Reports of COVID-19 Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis (CAPA) have increased. Most cases are in persons older than 65 years of age, who are mechanically ventilated, have chronic lung disease, and/or are immunocompromised. Aspergillus can lead to infections such as chronic pulmonary aspergillosis, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, and invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA). IPA has the highest [...]

Case Presentation: 71 year old man with known medical history of atrial fibrillation (on Rivaroxaban), severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes mellitus, history of perforated diverticulitis with surgery and colostomy one year ago complicated with recurrent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections and prolonged hospitalizations, including MRSA pneumonia and respiratory failure one month ago, presented to [...]

Case Presentation: A 53-year-old male, post-allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) for relapsed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) presented to an outside hospital with high fevers, frontal lobe headaches, and blood-tinged sinus drainage, two weeks after completing chemotherapy. Days later, the patient was transferred to our hospital for advanced care, reporting continued fevers (up to 38.6oC), [...]

Case Presentation: An 87-year-old man presented to the emergency room for exertional dyspnea, productive cough, and generalized weakness progressive over the past month. Four weeks prior he was hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia and received a 10-day course of a third-generation cephalosporin with minimal improvement. He continued to have a productive cough and exertional shortness of [...]

Case Presentation: A 46-year-old Hispanic male with a history of acute myelocytic leukemia (AML) presents with subjective fever of three-day duration after one week of induction chemotherapy with fludarabine, cytarabine, filgrastim (FLAG), and venetoclax. Otherwise, the patient denies cough, shortness-of-breath, diarrhea, abdominal pain, or dysuria. Vitals signs showed a temperature of 37.6C, pulse of 87, [...]