Case Presentation: An 18 year-old Hispanic female presented to a tertiary care center with six days of left-sided flank pain and gross hematuria. Upon further questioning, she additionally endorsed  two to three months of generalized malaise and unprovoked weight loss totaling eight pounds. She had been discharged from a nearby hospital one day prior to [...]

Case Presentation: A 54-year-old female with hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and morbid obesity with Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) in 2009 presented to the hospital with abdominal pain and was found to have choledocolithiasis and acute cholecystitis. She was admitted to the surgery service and underwent ERCP and laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Her post-op course was complicated by [...]

Case Presentation: A 69 year-old man with a history of urothelial carcinoma of the bladder status-post cystoprostatectomy with ileal conduit presented with fatigue, tachycardia, night sweats, and foul-smelling urine. At an outside hospital, he had recently been diagnosed with a new 11cm right renal mass with apparent diaphragmatic invasion. On exam, he was a pale, [...]

Case Presentation: A 27-year-old African American male with past medical history of hypertension presented with vomiting, diarrhea, chest pain and shortness of breath for about 1 week. He was septic with a temperature of 100.4F and heart rate of 130 bpm, but normotensive. No peripheral edema was present on exam. Leukocytosis (11.2K), anion gap metabolic [...]

Case Presentation: Lupus nephritis (LN) is a clinical manifestation of SLE that can be histologically categorized from class I-VI. One form of LN that is not included in the classification is lupus podocytopathy (LP). LP is a somewhat rare manifestation of SLE associated nephrotic syndrome that mimics minimal change disease (MCD) and is diagnosed via [...]

Case Presentation: A 50-year-old male with a history of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) presented after abnormal outpatient lab work including a newly elevated creatinine. The patient has been in his usual state of health and was recently started on prednisone 30mg for his HS. In preparation for initiation of immunologic agent for HS, he went to [...]