Background: Hospital Medicine is a relatively new medical speciality that dedicates to the care of hospitalized patients and experienced an exponential growth in the United States (US) during the last years. Nowadays there are more than 50.000 american hospitalists according to the Society of Hospital Medicine. Outside the US it is still brand new and [...]

Background: Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) is a major life-threatening oncological emergency where accelerated damage of rapidly proliferating tumor cells results in critical metabolic derangements including hyperuricemia, hyperkalemia, hyperphosphatemia, and hypocalcemia potentially leading to acute kidney injury (AKI) and multi-organ failure. TLS has been well documented in hematologic malignancies but is extremely rare in solid neoplasms, [...]

Background: The burden of acute care among cancer patients, estimated to exceed $70B by 2020, represents ~50% of all costs of advanced cancer care and accounts for 70% of nationwide regional variation in these costs. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed value-driven Rule OP-35 includes a mandate to reduce acute care use among [...]

Case Presentation: The patient is a 52-year-old male with a history of HIV (on antiretroviral therapy), ulcerative colitis, untreated hepatitis C who presented to the hospital after several weeks of difficulty passing stools, tenesmus, and rectal pain. This was originally attributed to hemorrhoids several weeks prior to presentation, but after symptoms progressed, the patient presented [...]

Case Presentation: We are reporting the case of a 25-year-old Hispanic gentleman with a strong family history of Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP) and Colorectal Cancer (CRC) who presented for evaluation of abdominal pain, recurrent bloody stools, and profound weight loss. Initial Hb was 7.2 g/dL, and abdominal examination showed generalized rigidity and tenderness worse in [...]

Case Presentation: A Caucasian male in his early 60s with metastatic pancreatic cancer presented to the urgent care with complaints of neck pain. He recently underwent kyphoplasty at the level of T3-T4 two weeks prior. He noticed a growing lump in his neck that grew over the last two days and associated with excruciating pain. [...]

Case Presentation: Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) is a potentially fatal complication usually seen in rapidly proliferating and chemo-sensitive malignancies like acute leukemia and lymphomas. (1-3) It is termed “spontaneous” (STLS) when TLS occurs without prior chemotherapy. (1) The incidence of STLS in solid tumors is infrequent/rare and can be fatal without early recognition and aggressive [...]