Background: Pulmonary nodules are among the most frequent and medically relevant incidental findings, but are easily overlooked – especially when discovered incidentally during hospitalization. While CT imaging has become an invaluable tool for expedited medical evaluation, its use has been associated with an increasing number of incidental findings, the handling of which creates both medical [...]

Case Presentation: A 56-year-old smoking female presented to the emergency room with a two-month history of progressive shortness of breath, dry cough, and unintentional weight loss. Her vital signs included a temperature of 36.4°C, heart rate of 116 beats/minute, and a respiratory rate of 24 breaths/minute. Her general appearance was a thin and cachectic woman [...]

Case Presentation: The patient is a 59-year-old male with chronic heart failure found to have cardiac sarcoidosis and subsequently treated inpatient with high-dose steroids. In addition, computed tomography imaging revealed pulmonary nodules. Due to a suspected infection, empirical antibiotics and antifungals were administered, however, treatment failed to clear the nodules. Further, weeks of antibiotic therapy [...]

Case Presentation: A 25-year-old man with a past medical history of Ulcerative Colitis (on mesalamine and non-compliant with steroid suppositories) presented as a transfer from an outside hospital (OSH) with fevers, left sided chest soreness, abdominal pain, and bloody diarrhea for 1 week. CT chest, abdomen, pelvis from OSH revealed diffuse colitis as well as [...]

Case Presentation: 72 year old male presented with two months of fever, night sweats and malaise. He later developed dyspnea and was hospitalised twice. CT chest revealed scattered bilateral nodular lung opacities. He had dental work done prior to symptom onset and was thus thought to have right sided infective endocarditis (IE) with septic emboli. [...]

Case Presentation: A 44-year-old male with a past medical history of sleep apnea on CPAP, alcohol abuse, tonsillectomy, and deviated nasal septum (DNS) repair presented with generalized weakness, body aches, and headache. He denied nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, dysuria, hematuria, chest pain, and shortness of breath. There was no history of neck stiffness or photophobia. On [...]

Case Presentation: Exogenous lipoid pneumonia (ELP) is an unusual respiratory disease caused by inflammation from a foreign body reaction to inhaled lipid particles. Here we present a case of this illness in the absence of a history of vaping, and we show how diagnosis can be delayed while searching for more common respiratory disorders. Discussion: [...]