Case Presentation: A 34-year-old female with history of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and gastroparesis status post Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery, was admitted for intractable nausea and vomiting. CT scan of abdomen and pelvis showed large stool burden. Conservative treatment was implemented. During her hospital course, she developed symptomatic hypoglycemia (blood glucose <40mg/dL), that recurred despite [...]

Case Presentation: A 70-year-old male with a past medical history of hypertension and diabetes was sent to the emergency room by primary care physician because of persistent hypokalemia while taking oral potassium supplements. Patient reported generalized weakness, low back pain, thirty-pound weight loss and poor appetite for a few months. He smokes one packet of [...]

Case Presentation: A 46 year old male patient with history of Hodgkin’s lymphoma in remission, and hypercoagulable state, status post IVC-F placement in 2005 and anticoagulation. He presented with hypotension and dizziness. He has been suffering from dizziness for several months but it has been getting progressively worse, to a level that he is unable [...]

Case Presentation: A 42 year old African American male with a recent diagnosis of Ulcerative Colitis (UC) presented with recurrent bloody diarrhea, abdominal pain, fevers, chills, weight loss and was admitted for management of a presumed UC flare. On a previous admission 2 months prior, he had been diagnosed with UC with a colonoscopy and [...]

Case Presentation: A 59 year-old male with intellectual disability presented with abdominal pain and distension following a fecal impaction. Imaging revealed diffuse gaseous colonic distension with colonic wall thickening suggestive of inflammatory colitis and colonic ileus without obstruction. His labs were notable for severe hypokalemia (1.5 mmol/L) and mild hypomagnesemia. Despite empiric antibiotic course, imaging [...]

Case Presentation: A 53-year-old Asian female with no significant past medical history and a lifelong non-smoker without any chronic secondhand smoke exposure presented with a long-standing chronic non-productive cough that persisted over many years. The patient was not taking any prescribed medication(s) or over the counter supplements. Review of symptoms was negative for fever, chills, [...]

Case Presentation: The patient is a 29-year-old female with the history of acute pancreatitis and gastric bypass surgery, who initially presented with lower extremity swelling in the setting of hypoalbuminemia and protein-calorie malnutrition. She was started on high calorie/protein diet and was discharged on furosemide. Three weeks after discharge, she noticed peri-oral rash, which extended [...]

Case Presentation: A 70-year-old male who presented to us with worsening dyspnea on exertion and non-productive cough. Review of systems was negative. Vitals were unremarkable; physical examination was significant for bilateral basilar rales which were corroborated by his chest x-ray that revealed bilateral pleural effusions. Laboratory findings were notable for normocytic anemia and elevated liver [...]

Case Presentation: A 24 year old, Chuukese-speaking woman visiting the United States from Micronesia, with no known past medical history, presented with complaint of 24 hours of acute epigastric pain. Patient was on no medications. Vital signs: temperature 36.4 degrees C, pulse 65, respirations 16, blood pressure 100/51. Exam showed mild epigastric and right upper [...]

Case Presentation: A 29-year-old female with a past medical history of microcytic anemia and recently-diagnosed AOSD presented with 2 weeks of progressive dyspnea. On her preceding hospital admission, her AOSD was diagnosed and clinical suspicion for MAS was initially mounted. At that time, she demonstrated polyarthralgia, pruritic rash, high-grade fevers, hepatosplenomegaly, diffuse lymphadenopathy, neutrophilic leukocytosis, [...]