Case Presentation: A 25-year-old man was found unresponsive at his home and brought to the hospital for further evaluation. In the emergency department, his Glasgow coma scale was 6, for which he was intubated and [...]
Case Presentation: A 41 year-old African-American woman with recently diagnosed pericarditis presented actively seizing with fixed gaze deviation to the right. When levetiracetam and lorazepam did not break seizure activity, she required sedation with propofol [...]
770,000 people are admitted due to adverse drug events annually, with an annual cost of 5.6 around million dollars per hospital, making the patient’s medication list an object of scrutiny. Olmesartan is an angiotensin receptor [...]
Case Presentation: A 45-year old female smoker with a history of asthma presented to our institution with an acute episode of dyspnea after being outdoors. On arrival, she was noted to be hemodynamically stable with [...]
Case Presentation: A 71-year old female with known stage 3-colon cancer post resection, presented to our neighboring hospital with intermittent pleuritic chest pain radiating to her back. She was started on chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) [...]
Case Presentation: A 52 y.o with a past medical history of uncontrolled, untreated hypertension presented to our hospital with a 3 week history of progressively worsening lower extremity edema and shortness of breath. Review of [...]
Case Presentation: A 52-year old male with a past medical history of Charcot Marie-Tooth disease presented to our facility for evaluation of acute dyspnea. He presented for respiratory distress, mentioning progressive generalized weakness and symptoms [...]
Case Presentation: A 44 year old man presented with three days of severe reflux, fever, non-bloody diarrhea and a progressive red right lower extremity rash. His past medical history was significant for gastroesophageal reflux disease [...]
Case Presentation: A 40 year-old female with history of pulmonary embolism during pregnancy presented with sudden onset of substernal chest pain and shortness of breath, which began an hour after she finished a rowing class. [...]
Case Presentation: A 39 y/o female with no significant past medical history and long term use of phentermine for weight loss presented to our hospital with complaints of transient right sided weakness and right sided [...]
Case Presentation: A 42-year-old female with no significant past medical history presented with a 20-day history of myalgias and proximal muscle weakness. She reported difficulty walking, rising from a chair, brushing her hair, and holding [...]
Case Presentation: 26 year old woman with past medical history of asthma and eczema presented with positional chest pain for 6 days, that was associated with worsening spasm-like pains in her extremities and back for [...]
Case Presentation: A 45 year old AA Male with PMHx of hypertension and ESRD on HD for 10 years with severe (8/10), diffuse epigastric pain associated with nausea, vomiting, high fever and chills for 2 [...]
Case Presentation: A female in her late 50’s with a history of T-cell lymphoma presented with intractable nausea and vomiting for one week. Her lymphoma was being treated with cycle four of five of EPOCH [...]
Case Presentation: A 19 year old female with systemic lupus erythematosus presented to a community hospital with hemoptysis. Bronchoscopy showed diffuse alveolar hemorrhage. She developed tachycardia and hypoxemic respiratory failure requiring ICU transfer, intubation and [...]