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 68-year-old male with a history of heavy cigarette smoking and COPD presented with a six-month-long hacking cough with sputum production, night sweats, weight loss, and malaise. He was treated with multiple courses of azithromycin for community-acquired pneumonia without improvement. He had a history of asbestos exposure as a shipyard worker. He did [...]

Case Presentation: A 32 year old male with past medical history of tobacco and alcohol abuse presented with fever, dyspnea, night sweats, cough with green sputum, occasional hemoptysis and left sided chest pain for eight days. He also endorsed a ten pound weight loss during this time. Of note patient also had a history of [...]

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: 41yo unvaccinated male diagnosed and treated with COVID-19 pneumonia eleven days prior represents six days after discharge for productive cough with hemoptysis. Patient was hemodynamically stable on room air with normal chemistries. CT chest demonstrated a new cavitary lesion in the left lower lobe and he empirically began antibiotics for post-viral pneumonia. When [...]

Case Presentation: A 60-year-old man with a history of alcoholic cirrhosis and autoimmune cholangitis on azathioprine and prednisone (10 mg daily) presented to the emergency room for shortness of breath, productive cough, and chest pain for two weeks. Recent surveillance EGD had showed diffuse esophageal candidiasis and the patient had been started on daily fluconazole. [...]

Case Presentation: 29-year-old Hispanic male with history of intravenous drug use (IVDU) with fentanyl and methamphetamine, was brought to the hospital after being found confused on the streets. Patient was very cachectic, tachypneic and had track marks in the cubital fossa suggestive of IVDU. Patient was febrile with 100.6 F, had leukocytosis with WBC 18 [...]

Case Presentation: A previously healthy 45-year-old male, who recently immigrated from India, presented with worsening dyspnea at rest, epistaxis, hearing loss, and bilateral eye irritation after three weeks on rifampin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol (RIPE) therapy. Negative Mycobacterium tuberculosis polymerase chain reaction (MTB PCR) and acid-fast bacillus (AFB) sputum culture results from the previous admission [...]