Case Presentation: A 72-year-old male with diabetes mellitus presented with two-day right eye vision loss and floaters. Vitals showed tachycardia and hypotension. Physical examination was notable for a hypopyon of the right eye and pressure ulcers on the buttocks bilaterally. Labs returned with leukocytosis, lactic acidosis, and acute kidney injury. A maxillofacial CT scan revealed [...]

Case Presentation: A 20 year-old IVDU female presented with 3 days of left eye pain and redness to an urgent ophthalmologist visit. She was found to have left eye retinal whitening superior to the macula to which vitreous tap was performed. Patient started on empiric treatment with injection of vancomycin, ceftriaxone, and voriconazole. Vitreous fluid [...]

Case Presentation: A 53 year old Russian man with no significant past medical history initially presented to an ophthalmology clinic with two days of progressively worsening, near-total left visual field loss associated with a one-week duration of fever, chills, and cough. He was diagnosed with bacterial endophthalmitis. His vitreous fluid was sampled, and he was [...]

Case Presentation: A 45 y/o Asian Male from Vietnam with PMH of treated pulmonary tuberculosis 10 years ago upon immigration to the US, presented to the ED with 3-day history of fever, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. He denied recent travel or use of antibiotics. On exam he had fever 102.2, tachycardia, scleral icterus and [...]

Case Presentation: A 30 year old man with a history of type 1 diabetes mellitus and bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement (AVR) for endocarditis presented with 2 days of left eye pain and vision loss associated with fevers, headache, and nausea. He reported intravenous drug use (IVDU) 4 days prior to admission after 14 months of [...]

Case Presentation: 71 year old man with known medical history of atrial fibrillation (on Rivaroxaban), severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes mellitus, history of perforated diverticulitis with surgery and colostomy one year ago complicated with recurrent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections and prolonged hospitalizations, including MRSA pneumonia and respiratory failure one month ago, presented to [...]

Case Presentation: A 50-year-old male with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and mitral valve prolapse presented to the ED per ophthalmology for further evaluation after 2 weeks of progressive bilateral vision changes, floaters, eye redness, and pain. On his initial presentation to eye clinic, he was diagnosed with bilateral panuveitis and managed with hourly prednisone [...]

Case Presentation: This is the case of a 69 year old woman with a history of diabetes and peripheral arterial disease who presented with eye pain for two days prior to admission. Of note, she was recently admitted to the hospital for a left foot infection requiring amputation; her hospital course was complicated by MRSA [...]

Case Presentation: A 76-year old man presented to emergency department for 2-week history of right buttock pain, swelling, and drainage. On presentation, he had a temperature of 101.3 F, otherwise hemodynamically stable. Physical examination revealed right buttock erythema and serosanguinous purulence (figure). There were no cardiac murmurs. Leukocytes count was within normal limits. CT abdomen [...]