Case Presentation: A 51-year-old woman with multiple medical co-morbidities including morbid obesity with body mass index of 84, hepatitis C cirrhosis, urinary retention requiring chronic indwelling foley catheter and bilateral non-obstructing renal calculi presented from her nursing home with altered mental status, tachycardia, hypotension, and urinalysis findings consistent with urinary tract infection. She had a [...]

Case Presentation: A 36-year-old male with history of keratoconus, corneal scars following corneal transplant, asthma, eczema, chronic herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) and varicella zoster virus (VZV), presented with concerns of eye involvement secondary to HSV-1 versus VZV reactivation. Physical examination revealed periorbital edema, vesicular lesions in trigeminal nerve ophthalmic distribution, neck and upper extremities. [...]

Case Presentation: A 28-year-old male with a recently diagnosed HIV infection presented to the hospital with dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain and fatigue for 4 days. Six weeks prior, he was found to have HIV infection with a CD4+ cell count of 17 cells/ul and an HIV viral load of 41,399 copies/mL. He was prescribed antiretroviral [...]