Case Presentation: A healthy 48-year-old male presented to the emergency department with fever, joint pain, fatigue, malaise, and oliguria. One week prior he had been seen at an urgent care clinic for fevers, chills, nasal congestion, and sore throat and was formally diagnosed with influenza B and strep pharyngitis. At that office visit he was [...]

Case Presentation: A 68-year-old previously healthy woman was presented to our hospital with acute low back pain that was not triggered by any trauma. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a lumbar compression fracture, and she was admitted to the orthopedic department. Two days later, she developed orthopnea and hypotension, and therefore the orthopedician consulted with [...]