Case Presentation: A 61-year-old male with a past medical history of pancreatic and renal transplants on chronic immunosuppression presented with a six-day history of watery diarrhea. He also reported fever, abdominal pain, and noted a family member also developed a similar diarrhea after a pork dinner. His vital signs were remarkable for fever (101.8 F) [...]

Case Presentation: A 46-year-old female with obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus presented with chief complaint of diarrhea for several days. Her diarrhea was watery, non-bloody, greenish in color, and occurred hourly. She had associated nausea, vomiting, and right upper quadrant (RUQ) abdominal pain. She denied recent travel, consumption of unusual foods, and knowing anyone [...]

Case Presentation: A 48 year-old male with a past medical history of morbid obesity, hypertension, and poorly nutritious diet consisting strictly of “pizza and chips” who presented after he was found unresponsive and incontinent of urine at home. He reportedly did not consume alcohol. Four weeks prior to presentation, he developed an acute onset of [...]

Lupus Presenting as Abdominal Pain: More than a Gut Feeling Ileannette Robledo, MD, Jose Carlos Barrientos, MD, Joan Bosco, MD, Christine Chen, MD, Harry Fischer, MD, Wan Ling Lam MD, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Icahn School of Medicine, New York, NY, Abstract Text: Case Presentation: We describe a case of a 28-year-old Asian woman with [...]

Case Presentation: A 22-year-old Hispanic male presented with a 4 day history of rectal and abdominal pain. He denied any previous medical history. He also noted three months of productive cough, pyrexia, chills, night sweats, fatigue, and weight loss. Physical examination revealed right lower quadrant tenderness accompanied by abdominal rigidity and involuntary guarding. The patient declined digital rectal examination. [...]

Case Presentation: A 19-year-old man with past medical history of recently incompletely treated H. pylori presented to the ED with severe abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting for 20 days. Vital signs were normal, and physical exam was unremarkable. CT abdomen/pelvis showed diffuse gastric wall thickening with mucosal enhancement and mesenteric, gastrohepatic ligament, and para-aortic adenopathy. [...]

Case Presentation: A 50-year-old man presented with one week of diarrhea. He reported ten voluminous watery bowel movements each day, nausea, and frequent non-bloody, non-bilious emesis. Additional symptoms included increasing right-sided abdominal pain, generalized pruritus, and diffuse weakness. Eating meat exacerbated both his abdominal discomfort and pruritus. His history included Ulcerative Colitis, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, [...]

Case Presentation: A 56-year-old female with a history of scleroderma, Sjogren’s syndrome, GERD, cirrhosis, HTN presented with abdominal pain for 3 days. She reported nausea without emesis, decreased oral intake, and no bowel movements or passing gas during this time. She denied fevers, night sweats, diarrhea, gastrointestinal bleeding, recent travel, swimming in lakes/rivers, ingesting unclean [...]

Case Presentation: A 30-year-old man presented for evaluation of multiple episodes of recurrent non-bloody, watery diarrhea and abdominal complaints. Initially seen in clinic, he was well appearing, with normal lab work (CBC, BMP, TSH, TTG IgA, CRP), but given the subacute timeframe of his diarrhea (2-3 weeks) he was referred to a gastroenterologist. Further testing [...]