Background: The COVID-19 pandemic was one of the biggest threats to human health, affecting health and health care delivery systems at both the individual and institutional level. There have been varied reports about how sociodemographic factors affect outcomes of patient with COVID-19 [1] [2] [3]. In this US claims based study, we analysed discharge data [...]

Background: Background: Ultrasound has diagnostic value at the point-of-care among hospitalized patients. In COVID-19 pneumonia, lung ultrasound has been used as a diagnostic and prognostic tool. For example, using the results of nasal PCR test as the reference standard, a modified lung ultrasound score (LUS) ≥ 8 is highly predictive of COVID-19. However, a focused [...]

Case Presentation: A 50-year-old male with history of gastric lap band, obstructive sleep apnea, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes presented with two months of worsening shortness of breath. He denied cough, fever, myalgias, diarrhea, loss of sense of taste or smell, or pleuritic chest pain. He had no history of asthma, COPD, or tobacco use. [...]

Case Presentation: A 20-year-old male with no known medical conditions presented to the emergency department with acute right-sided chest pain and shortness of breath, which began abruptly while he was playing video games at home.  He described the pain as sharp, radiating to the back, 7/10 in severity, and worse with coughing and inspiration. He [...]

Case Presentation: We present the case of a 34-year-old female with PMHx of chronic hypoxemic respiratory failure secondary to LCH with cor pulmonale that had questions about sexual intercourse. She reported that she and her partner were planning to have sexual intercourse, and she wanted a medical opinion about the health risks because of probable [...]

Case Presentation: A 77-year-old woman with a significant health history including metabolic syndrome, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, ischemic cardiomyopathy, stage III chronic kidney disease and a recently diagnosed SARS-CoV-2 infection. She presented with sepsis and cardiorenal syndrome. On arrival, she was in acute respiratory distress with severe metabolic and respiratory acidosis, and in oliguric state, [...]

Case Presentation: A 65 year-old man was admitted to the inpatient medical service with worsening cough and dyspnea. He also reported progressive muscle weakness and myalgias over the past several weeks. His past medical history was significant for tobacco use, hypertension, hypothyroidism, and obesity. On admission, he was hemodynamically stable and afebrile with mild tachypnea [...]

Case Presentation: KW is a 64 year old female with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and hypertension who presented with progressive dyspnea in the setting of cardiac tamponade, but with persistent hypoxic respiratory failure despite pericardiocentesis. One week after initial presentation, a test returned positive for p-ANCA with anti-myeloperoxidase (anti-MPO) by immunofluorescence and ELISA. Lupus anticoagulant [...]

Case Presentation: 65 year old female with history of rheumatoid arthritis on methotrexate and hydroxychloroquine, prior gastric ulcers on EGD, who was admitted to the hospital with bloody diarrhea, epigastric pain, acute blood loss anemia found to have duodenal ulcer. Patient received 2 units of blood products on hospitals day one and four. Course had [...]

Case Presentation: A 73 year-old African-American female with history Rai Stage 3 Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), not on any treatment was admitted with sepsis secondary to cellulitis of right leg. On the seventh day of hospitalization she became acutely dyspneic. On evaluation, blood pressure was 100/70 mmHg, heart rate 110 beats/min, respiratory rate 21 per [...]