Case Presentation: A previously healthy 19 year-old college student presented after coughing up a live worm (Figure 1). The night prior, he had developed a cough and right-sided chest “cramping.” Although he reported respiratory and constitutional symptoms from his concurrent COVID-19 infection, he stated that the cough was atypical and was associated with a sensation [...]

Case Presentation: 21 cases of small intestine anisakiasis were analyzed in terms of medical history, examinations of symptoms, vital signs, laboratory data, and CT findings. 9 cases were identified through specific anisakiasis Immunoglobulin E or Immunoglobulin A testing. 2 cases were confirmed by the detection of anisakis by endoscopic examination. 10 cases were diagnosed based [...]

Case Presentation: A 30 year old M truck driver with a history of herniated disc was referred to the emergency room (ER) by an infectious disease specialist for elevated eosinophils (12.96 K/uL), chest pain (CP) and tachycardia. The patient complained of pleuritic left sided CP without shortness of breath or hemoptysis. Six weeks prior to [...]

Case Presentation: A man in his late 70s presented to the emergency department after multiple falls and new onset altered mental status. Past medical history included hypertension, hyperlipidemia, chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage III, and previous infection with anaplasmosis over a decade prior.On clinical exam, the patient was afebrile, hypoxic, and meeting SIRS criteria with [...]

Case Presentation: A 19-year-old male with a past medical history of malaria and recent immigration to the U.S. from Somalia presented with a witnessed episode of tonic-clonic seizure. He had no history of seizure disorder, recent trauma, new medications, alcohol use, fevers or chills. He was afebrile with stable vital signs. Physical exam including neurological [...]

Case Presentation: 29 year old female presented with 3 days of low grade fever, chills, dyspnea, cough, nausea, headaches, night sweats and myalgias. She also had intermittent fatigue and dyspnea with exertion for the past 3 years. No sick contacts, recent travel, antibiotic use, or weight loss. Medical history included type 1 diabetes, depression, and [...]

Case Presentation: A 46 year-old male from India presented with acute epigastric abdominal pain, dysphagia, decreased appetite, nausea, and generalized weakness. This case starts 6 months prior to admission when he was found to have an elevated creatinine at a routine primary care visit. Subsequently, due to worsening kidney function, a kidney biopsy was performed [...]

Case Presentation: A 44-year-old woman presented with five days of intermittent fevers and headaches. Her medical history included hypothyroidism, uterine fibroids, and migraines. The patient lives in East Africa and had traveled to Europe for work within the past month. Three days after flying to NYC, she began to experience subjective daily fevers in the [...]

Case Presentation: A 60-year old male gardener presented with generalized body aches, night sweats, chills, malaise, fevers and headache (frontal and occipital) intermittently for a month. He reported abdominal pain, dyspnea, joint stiffness and myalgia. Around 2 weeks prior, the pain intensified and he received a treatment for upper respiratory infection with azithromycin. He finally [...]