Case Presentation: A 26-year-old male, recently diagnosed with Acute Intermittent Porphyria (AIP), presented with 3 days of sudden onset severe periumbilical pain exacerbated by eating. He reported 20 episodes of non-bloody emesis accompanied by bilateral facial numbness and right-sided chest pain in the 3 days prior to admission, as well as subjective fever, chills, and [...]

Case Presentation: A 21-year-old otherwise healthy female army recruit undergoing basic training was admitted to an outside hospital with severe abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. An abdominal CT was unremarkable. Laboratory results revealed hyponatremia (Na 117mmol/L) and polycythemia (Hgb 17mg/dL). Patient then developed severe chest pain associated with tachycardia, hypertension and a mild troponin elevation. [...]