Case Presentation: An 81-year old male with a significant medical history of essential hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease, was admitted to the hospital complaining productive cough, shortness of breath and pleuritic chest pain from one week. Chest X-ray revealed left lower lobe consolidation with left parapneumonic effusion. The nasopharyngeal swab was [...]

Case Presentation: A 25-year-old Hispanic female presented to our hospital with a 2-day history of abdominal pain which began abruptly and was associated with fevers, chills as well as intermittent nonproductive cough which had been present since her last episode of pneumonia about 6 months ago. She was admitted to the ICU for management of [...]

Case Presentation: A 70-year-old woman with hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) complicated by recurrent organizing pneumonia (OP) was admitted to a hospital medicine service with four weeks of involuntary spasms of her abdominal wall muscles and hypoxemia. She reported having similar episodes during past OP flares which resolved quickly with prednisone. Notable admission vitals included a heart [...]

Case Presentation: A 66-year-old woman presented as a hospital transfer for further evaluation of 1 week of abdominal pain and jaundice and several months of a worsening dry cough and dyspnea. These were respectively attributed to acute cholecystitis status post unsuccessful ERCP and pulmonary edema. She had no fever, orthopnea, or edema. Her past medical [...]

Case Presentation: A 69-year-old female with a history of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, atrial fibrillation on Amiodarone since 2 months prior, type 2 diabetes who presented to the primary care clinic due to shortness of breath. She was diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia 3 weeks ago that was treated with Doxycycline without improvement. She continued to spike fevers [...]

Case Presentation: A 50 year old obese female with a past medical history of rheumatoid arthritis, bilateral DVT and PE 4 years ago on apixaban, hypothyroidism, fibromyalgia, and chronic migraines presented to the emergency department with daily fevers, shortness of breath, and anxiety for one week. She reported persistent chest heaviness and productive cough of [...]

Case Presentation: We present the case of a 65-year-old male with no previous smoking or supplemental oxygen history who presented to the emergency department after routine clinic visit that was ultimately found to have cryptogenic organizing pneumonia from Influenza type B. Past medical history was insignificant except for recent hospital admission the week prior that [...]

Background: Cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP) is an idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia. The exact incidence, prevalence and pathogenesis are unknown. This retrospective study aims to reveal the prevalence of COP in hospitalized population and to investigate the odds ratio (OR) of COP in connective tissue disease (CTD) of interest including rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus [...]