Case Presentation: A 50-year-old man with a history of hypertension presented to the emergency department with a three-day history of nonstop hiccups. His systolic blood pressure was more than 200 and chest x-ray imaging was unremarkable. Over the next several days, his blood pressure remained elevated despite multiple medication additions, and he continued to complain [...]

Case Presentation: Here we present a case of a 63 year old female with a past medical history of COPD on 5L home oxygen and BiPAP with eight exacerbations in the past year who presented with shortness of breath and was admitted for acute hypoxic respiratory failure secondary to COPD exacerbation. When initially evaluated by [...]

Case Presentation: The patient was a 61-year-old female with a medical history of hypertension, type II diabetes mellitus, and uterine carcinosarcoma with peritoneal carcinomatosis, and ascites who initially presented with abdominal pain and shortness of breath. Admission labs were significant for a white cell count of 15.6 and lactic acid of 2.6. Sepsis workup was [...]

Case Presentation: We present the case of a 65-year-old male with no previous smoking or supplemental oxygen history who presented to the emergency department after routine clinic visit that was ultimately found to have cryptogenic organizing pneumonia from Influenza type B. Past medical history was insignificant except for recent hospital admission the week prior that [...]