Case Presentation: An 86-year-old male with a past medical history of bladder cancer, status post Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) therapy 12 months prior, presented to the ED with three months of progressively worsening back pain and weight loss. He denied cough, fever, night sweats, dysuria, recent travel, history of farming, exposure to cattle, or consumption of [...]

Case Presentation: A 28-year-old female from Mexico with AIDS and prior Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) infection treated with rifampin, isoniazid, ethambutol (RIE), complicated by lumbar osteomyelitis due to suspected medication non-adherence, presented with acute onset headache and photophobia. On admission, CD4 T-cell count was 28/μL and HIV viral load was 75,200 copies/mL. Cerebral spinal fluid [...]

Case Presentation: A 91-year-old Japanese man was referred to our institution for the management of a ruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm. Two days prior, he had been admitted to another hospital with a one-week history of fever. Chest computed tomography (CT) revealed fluid accumulation around the descending aorta and a left pleural effusion, which was bloody, [...]