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: An 82-year-old female presented to the emergency department with a hemoglobin of 5.2 g/dL and complaints of nausea, fatigue, and progressive weakness over the past 2 months. She denied any episode of overt bleeding; no hemoptysis, hematochezia, hematuria, or bloody vaginal discharge. She also denied trauma or any recent falls. The patient’s physical [...]

Case Presentation: A 73 year-old African-American female with history Rai Stage 3 Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), not on any treatment was admitted with sepsis secondary to cellulitis of right leg. On the seventh day of hospitalization she became acutely dyspneic. On evaluation, blood pressure was 100/70 mmHg, heart rate 110 beats/min, respiratory rate 21 per [...]

Case Presentation: A 56-year-old man with history of hypertension on amlodipine, hydralazine, losartan, spironolactone, and torsemide, uncontrolled insulin dependent type 2 diabetes mellitus, chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage IIIb, and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) with extreme leukocytosis of 268,600/uL on admission presented to the hospital for progressive shortness of breath and was found to be [...]

Case Presentation: Hepatic carcinosarcoma (HCS) is an extremely rare kind of hepatic malignancy with elements of both carcinoma and sarcoma. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), on the other hand, is the most common lymphoid malignancy in North America accounting for ~25% of leukemia cases in the United States. This is the first case report in medical [...]