Case Presentation: 52-year-old Caucasian male with no past medical history significant for history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia who presented to the hospital secondary to fever of 103 degrees and chills for 3 days. Patient reports that fever was sudden in onset and has been intermittent which breaks with sweating. His review of systems were positive [...]

Case Presentation: 25-year-old male with a past medical history of von Willebrand disease, thrombocytosis presented to an outside hospital (OSH) with acute onset chest pain. An EKG there showed ST-segment elevation in anterior leads after which he was emergently taken to the cardiac catheterization laboratory. He was found to have an left anterior descending (LAD) [...]

Case Presentation: A 48-year-old male with a past medical history of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) presented with one day of severe chest pain, dizziness, and brief loss of consciousness resulting in a head injury. EKG showed T wave inversions in inferior leads and elevated troponin to 625 within a few hours. [...]

Case Presentation: A 25-year-old male without medical history presented with right sided throat pain, fever and chills for 3 days. He also had a painful swelling behind his left ear for 4 weeks. In the emergency department, examination showed an erythematous and edematous right tonsil with local mass effect on the uvula with left-sided displacement [...]