Case Presentation: A 76-year-old male with metastatic renal cell carcinoma presented to the hospital due to multiple syncopal episodes. The patient was prescribed pembrolizumab by infusion every 3 weeks (last dose was a week and a half prior). His presenting vitals were significant for a heart rate of 30 beats per minute and systolic blood [...]

Background: COVID-19 vaccines have greatly decreased both rate of morbidity and mortality of the COVID-19 infection, but studies have reported myocarditis in patients after vaccination especially with mRNA vaccines. The purpose of this study is to identify if there is a significant correlation between COVID-19 vaccines and myocarditis. Methods: We systematically searched PubMed, Web of [...]

Background: Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19), primarily a respiratory virus, can affect multiple organs, including the heart. Cardiac complications can affect 20-30% of COVID-19 patients and lead to worse morbidity and mortality. Cardiovascular complications can include myocarditis, acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and arrhythmias Myocarditis is a well-known complication among COVID-19 infections, with limited large-scale studies evaluating outcomes [...]

Case Presentation: A 29-year-old previously healthy male presented to an outside hospital emergency department with two days of flu-like symptoms including fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and recurrent episodes of syncope. On arrival, physical exam revealed a heart rate of 50 beats/minute and a blood pressure of 75/53 mmHg, elevated JVP, diminished right basilar [...]

Case Presentation: A 50 year old male with no past medical history presented with severe chest pain that progressively worsened over 2 days. His chest pain was described as left sided, non-radiating, and constant. He reported sore throat, headaches, and subjective fevers for the past 5 days. The patient also reported multiple family members received [...]

Case Presentation: A 30 year old well male presented with one day history of multiple episodes of loss of consciousness. Each episode lasted several minutes with no preceding warning. There was no limb jerking, tongue biting or confusion. One week prior, he was treated for shingles with oral acyclovir. His temperature was 37.9° Celcius. He [...]

Case Presentation: A 14yo girl presented with syncope and 4 days of URI symptoms. She had no past medical or family history. On presentation, she was hypotensive with mildly elevated lactate, troponin, and BNP, and an unremarkable ECG and chest radiograph. Initial echocardiogram showed normal LV function. Cardiac MRI revealed a pericardial effusion and increased [...]

Case Presentation: A 51-year-old morbidly obese male without any significant past medical history presented to the hospital for evaluation of one month history of worsening dyspnea on exertion associated with orthopnea and PND. He was hemodynamically stable and physical examination revealed 2+ bilateral lower extremity pitting edema. Initial laboratory workup was significant for high-sensitivity troponin [...]

Case Presentation: A 32 year old previously healthy male presented to the emergency department with acute non-exertional chest pressure with radiation to the back and jaw three days after receiving his third COVID-19 vaccine, a Pfizer-BioNTech, and 6 months after his initial two series Astra-Zeneca COVID-19 vaccines. His chest pain was improved with leaning forward. [...]

Case Presentation: A 78 year old man with recurrent metastatic adenosquamous lung carcinoma (recently initiated pembrolizumab), CAD s/p CABG, HTN, DM2, and HLD, presented with 2 weeks of fatigue, myalgias, anorexia, and weakness acutely worsening in the prior 2 days. He had no fever, chills, chest pain, dyspnea, orthopnea, palpitations, or lower extremity edema. ED [...]