Case Presentation: A 68-year-old male with a history of heavy cigarette smoking and COPD presented with a six-month-long hacking cough with sputum production, night sweats, weight loss, and malaise. He was treated with multiple courses of azithromycin for community-acquired pneumonia without improvement. He had a history of asbestos exposure as a shipyard worker. He did [...]

Case Presentation: 41yo unvaccinated male diagnosed and treated with COVID-19 pneumonia eleven days prior represents six days after discharge for productive cough with hemoptysis. Patient was hemodynamically stable on room air with normal chemistries. CT chest demonstrated a new cavitary lesion in the left lower lobe and he empirically began antibiotics for post-viral pneumonia. When [...]

Case Presentation: A previously healthy 45-year-old male, who recently immigrated from India, presented with worsening dyspnea at rest, epistaxis, hearing loss, and bilateral eye irritation after three weeks on rifampin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol (RIPE) therapy. Negative Mycobacterium tuberculosis polymerase chain reaction (MTB PCR) and acid-fast bacillus (AFB) sputum culture results from the previous admission [...]