Case Presentation: An 80- year old immunocompetent Vietnamese man with hypertension, atrial fibrillation, and prostate cancer in remission was admitted for progressive vision loss and headaches. 6 weeks before presentation he began to have persistent, disabling left fronto-temporal headaches. 2 weeks prior he developed sudden left sided vision loss. Outpatient left temporal artery biopsy was [...]

Case Presentation: A 53-year-old male, post-allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) for relapsed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) presented to an outside hospital with high fevers, frontal lobe headaches, and blood-tinged sinus drainage, two weeks after completing chemotherapy. Days later, the patient was transferred to our hospital for advanced care, reporting continued fevers (up to 38.6oC), [...]

Case Presentation: A 77-year-old man presented with altered consciousness. His medical history included type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and complete atrioventricular block managed with a pacemaker. Three months earlier, corticosteroid therapy was initiated for acute lung injury of unknown etiology, with symptom improvement followed by dose tapering. He had no history of tuberculosis, mycobacterial infections, [...]

Case Presentation: An 83-year-old man with coronary artery bypass graft, atrial fibrillation, pacemaker, and chronic lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL), presented with a week of dizziness, generalized weakness, blurred vision, word-finding difficulties, and confusion. Dysmetria and peripheral vision loss on the right were notable. No fever. Labs were unremarkable except for mild anemia, lymphocytic leukocytosis, and neutropenia. [...]