Case Presentation: 35 year old African American Female with history of HIV of 16 years duration, not on antiretroviral therapy, was admitted to the hospital with shortness of breath, generalized weakness, and poor appetite of 2 week duration. She had been admitted to the hospital a month ago for candidal esophagitis and discharged on dapsone [...]

Case Presentation: An 84 year old female with a past medical history significant for systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) presented to the emergency department with fatigue and dizziness. She had recently been admitted to the same hospital with acute kidney injury secondary to lupus nephritis. During that admission, she was started on high dose prednisone, a [...]

Case Presentation: A 69-year-old woman with ALL on chemotherapy and prior venous thromboembolisms being treated with rivaroxaban was admitted for symptomatic COVID19. She was dyspneic with pulse oximetry saturations in the 90s, so she was started on oxygen via nasal cannula, dexamethasone, and remdesivir. Initial chest X-ray, troponins, D-dimer, and BNP were unremarkable. Chemotherapy was [...]

Case Presentation: We present the case of a 64-year-old male with a history of pulmonary embolism status post IVC filter, and recent viral constrictive pericarditis with exudative pericardial effusion requiring pericardiocentesis and bilateral pleural effusions requiring chest tubes, who was admitted for dyspnea, cyanosis, and confusion. Vitals were blood pressure 78/51, heart rate 60, respiratory [...]

Case Presentation: A 15-year-old female with a past medical history of acne vulgaris on topical Dapsone and anxiety on Sertraline presented to the ER with severe shortness of breath. She was recently hospitalized for a left knee meniscal repair one month prior. She went to a theme park on the day of admission where she [...]

Case Presentation: A 68-year-old woman presented to the hospital with dyspnea, lightheadedness, hypoxia and no other systemic symptoms. She had a history of stage IIB small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the right lung status post chemoradiotherapy. This was complicated by radiation pneumonitis requiring long-term prednisone. Three days before presentation, she started dapsone 100mg daily for [...]

Case Presentation: A 72 year old woman with a history of recurrent, metastatic breast cancer complicated by pembrolizumab-related immune-mediated colitis presented to our hospital with sudden onset dizziness and shortness of breath. Four weeks prior to presentation, she suffered a colitis flare and was treated with a rapid 40 mg prednisone taper along with dapsone [...]

Case Presentation: A 15-year-old female with a history of migraines presented with headache and confusion. On the morning of presentation, the patient endorsed a migraine-like headache that was not relieved with over-the-counter medications, blue/gray discoloration of her hands, and shortness of breath. Review of systems was positive for anxiety, chest pain, and lightheadedness and negative [...]