Case Presentation: A 15 year-old female with developmental delay presents with intermittent abdominal pain, decreased appetite, and vaginal discharge. Parents disclose a 30 lbs weight loss over 2 years, along with vaginal discharge that was evaluated by self-swab testing and deemed a “normal variant” from menses. When she presented to her PCP’s office, she was [...]

Case Presentation: A 59-year-old male with a history of HIV, HBV, and amphetamine use disorder presented with a three-day history of fever, diffuse abdominal pain, and rectal pain with passage of thick, clear-yellow fluid. The patient engaged in receptive anal intercourse and had a history of injecting methamphetamine per rectum. Patient was septic on admission [...]

Case Presentation: A 30 y/o man presented to the ED with complaints of unresolved monkeypox lesions. Along with this recent diagnosis of monkeypox with TPOXX treatment failure, he has a past medical history significant for advanced HIV/AIDS with CD4< 2 at admission on Bactrim prophylaxis, resolved Campylobacter infection, and chronic normocytic anemia. A month prior, [...]

Case Presentation: A 42-year-old man was diagnosed with AIDS after presenting to his PCP for subacute subjective fevers, unintended weight loss, headache, and generalized malaise. He was referred to infectious diseases and was started on Biktarvy for ART as well as Bactrim and Zithromax for prophylaxis for a CD4 count of 18 cells/mm3 and HIV [...]

Case Presentation: Patient is a 37-year-old male with a history of HIV, Kaposi’s sarcoma, substance abuse, Hepatitis C, and heart failure. Patient was previously treated for cryptococcal meningitis, neurosyphilis, VZV encephalitis, and ESBL UTI. He presents to the hospital due to shortness of breath, facial pain, malaise, neck stiffness, and abdominal pain with bilious vomiting. [...]

Case Presentation: A 32 years of male with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) on immunosuppression presented with complaints of fever, abdominal pain and diarrhea. His stool had many WBCs, C. diff was negative and CT of the abdomen revealed enterocolitis. His anaerobic blood culture bottles grew Salmonella group from the nonTyphi subtypes. Further history disclosed that he [...]

Case Presentation: A 44-year-old African American male with a medical history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) presented to the hospital with nonspecific complaints, including flank pain. Initial laboratory tests and imaging studies confirmed a diagnosis of nephrolithiasis and acute kidney injury with concomitant hypercalcemia. The patient was hospitalized and treated [...]