Case Presentation: An 80-year-old gentleman with a past medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus and stage III chronic kidney disease (baseline creatinine 1.2-1.4 mg/dL) presented to the emergency department with generalized weakness, falls, unintentional weight loss, and constipation. Labs were significant for hypercalcemia (13.2 mg/dL), elevated creatinine (1.96 mg/dL), suppressed intact PTH (10 pg/mL), [...]

Case Presentation: A 26 year old previously healthy male presented with complaints of right leg weakness and urinary retention.  Three weeks prior, he experienced back pain in the setting of a lifting injury at work and was treated symptomatically for low back strain.  Two weeks later, he began having right leg weakness and tingling which [...]

Case Presentation: A 17 year-old male teenager presented with two weeks of bilateral lower extremity edema, erythema, and warmth associated with fevers and joint pain at the foot and ankle. After a presumed bug bite on his left foot he developed a rash that spread from left to right leg. Symptoms did not improve with [...]

Case Presentation: A 43-year-old male presented to the emergency room with dry mouth and fever. The patient endorsed pain and dryness when eating solid foods. He noted 40 pounds of unintentional weight loss over 1 month. He had a 30 pack-year smoking history but reported no alcohol or illicit drug use. He did not take [...]

Case Presentation: : A 50-year-old African-American woman with history of hypothyroidism presented to the hospital with one week of sharp right orbital headaches, numbness, and itching. Associated symptoms included numbness from the eye to the mouth, pruritus, and dysphagia. Physical exam was remarkable for diminished pin prick and temperature sensation in the V1-V3 distribution on [...]

Case Presentation: A previously healthy 32-year-old man presented to the ER for two weeks of yellowing skin and eyes. He denied recent illness, weight loss, GI symptoms, hemoptysis, and night sweats. He had arrived in the US four months earlier after a month-long trek through seven countries. He denied any animal bites, but did drink [...]

Case Presentation: A 75 year old Caucasian woman, previously diagnosed ET and atrial fibrillation, presented to emergency room with acute on chronic shortness of breath. Her dyspnea was earlier attributed to chronic bronchitis in the absence of evidence of any other pathology. However, this time she had bilateral coarse crackles which correlated with her chest [...]

Case Presentation: This is a 65 y.o. male with PMHx significant for Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance (with prior negative skeletal survey and negative bone marrow biopsy), CKD stage III who presented with chief complaint of lethargy, bilateral extremity weakness, and dysarthria. Patient stated that he has been experiencing such symptoms for the past year, [...]

Case Presentation: A 78-year-old African American female with a history of hypertension, coronary artery disease, heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 4, and systemic sarcoidosis in remission, presented for an acute change in mental status with delusions, and memory loss for 1 week. She had a history of dysphagia with [...]

Case Presentation: 56-year-old male with a history of squamous cell cancer of forehead s/p Mohs surgery who was admitted from the outpatient cardiology stress lab after his EKG revealed complete heart block. Baseline TTE done during the initial part of the stress test revealed LVEF25-30%. Patient was asymptomatic on admission, hemodynamically stable with no laboratory [...]