Case Presentation: A 13-year-old South Sudanese female with poorly controlled Type 1 Diabetes presented to the emergency department with one month of progressive abdominal distention. She presented twice previously to an urgent care with an unremarkable evaluation and had temporary improvement with polyethylene glycol, but her abdominal distention and intermittent pain worsened. She denied fevers, [...]

Case Presentation: A 4-day old male was born full term at an outside hospital to a mother with a new vesicular labial lesion found during vaginal delivery. A viral culture of the lesion and maternal Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) serology were obtained, but the patient did not undergo further work up or treatment in the [...]

Case Presentation: A 2-year-old female presented to our Gastroenterology service with persistent failure to thrive (FTT). She was born at term and remained in the 10th percentile in weight for the first nine months. She continued to grow in length but did not gain weight. Initial inpatient workup at 13 months revealed a CBC, TSH, [...]

Case Presentation: A 4-month-old, Filipina female presented with 5 days of fever, irritability, and left jaw and neck swelling. Physical exam revealed bilateral conjunctivitis, blanching migratory macular erythema of the forehead and abdomen, and edema with erythema of the left neck that also obscured the angle of the left jaw. Ultrasound showed enlarged left parotid [...]

Case Presentation: 16-month-old boy with developmental delay, anal atresia, lipomyelomeningocele, and tethered cord syndrome transferred to a tertiary care center for recurrent postprandial blood-streaked emesis and failure to thrive. His past surgical history was remarkable for anorectoplasty. On admission to the outside hospital, his laboratory values were consistent with dehydration, hemoconcentration & hypokalemia. Stool occult [...]