Case Presentation: A 35 year old female with asthma, endometriosis and three prior right sided pneumothoraces presented to the emergency department with dyspnea and chest pain without recent trauma, and was again admitted with right sided pneumothorax. Her exam was notable for thin, young adult female, non-smoker, with decreased breath sounds on the right. Her [...]

Case Presentation: A 33-year-old nulliparous female with no past medical history presented with 10 months of postmenstrual umbilical pain. She denied vomiting or bowel habit changes, but noted recent orthopnea and nocturnal wheezing. She had regular, monthly menstrual cycles associated with dysmenorrhea since menarche at age 11.  She had not been sexually active for 4 [...]

Case Presentation: A 37-year-old woman with a history of endometriosis, fibroids status post fibroidectomy, and previous spontaneous pneumothorax presented with 3 days of progressively worsening right pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea on exertion. She had a similar presentation nine months prior at an outside hospital and was found to have a spontaneous right pneumothorax requiring [...]

Case Presentation: We present a 26-year-old female with history of endometriosis and recurrent tubo-ovarian abscess (TOA). She was admitted for a TOA in 2021, and her course was complicated by a right sided spontaneous pneumothorax. On review, she had experienced two prior episodes of right-sided pneumothorax in 2017 and 2020.The first episode resolved spontaneously; while [...]

Case Presentation: A 22-year-old female presented with diffuse abdominal pain and a past medical history of endometriosis managed with medroxyprogesterone acetate injections. She also reported a decreased appetite and hematuria. Six months earlier she presented with similar symptoms and was diagnosed with an endometriosis flare. On this admission, the heart rate was 131 bpm, with [...]

Case Presentation: Thoracic Endometriosis Syndrome (TES) is a rare condition characterized by the presence of endometrial tissue inside the thoracic cavity. It consists of four distinct clinical entities: catamenial pneumothorax, catamenial hemothorax, hemoptysis, and pulmonary nodules. We report the case of a 47-year-old woman with TES presenting as spontaneous hemopneumothorax. Patient is a 47-year old [...]

Case Presentation: A 36-year-old female presented with a month history of cramping abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting that started after an episode of diarrheal illness associated to ingestion of mangoes. Her symptoms were worse with food intake and consequently, she reported a 25-pound weight loss. Her PCP had performed a urea breath test and an [...]

Case Presentation: A 35-year-old female patient with a medical history significant for symptomatic uterine fibroids presented after a syncopal episode. Patient had experienced chronic abdominal pain throughout the past year, but she noted that the pain acutely worsened at the time of her syncopal episode. She also endorsed nausea, vomiting, and new abdominal distension. She [...]

Case Presentation: The patient is a 43 year old woman with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Addison’s disease, and ovarian cysts who presented with days of focal right lower quadrant pain and one day of nausea, vomiting, and fever. She had no diarrhea, hematochezia, dysuria, or urinary frequency/urgency. She had doubled her maintenance glucocorticoid dose as instructed when [...]