Case Presentation: A 36 year old man with a history of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) of unclear etiology was admitted with a three-week history of progressively worsening fatigue, weakness and lightheadedness. Further questioning revealed a [...]
Case Presentation: A 21-year-old man presented with two weeks of progressive dyspnea. He denied chest pain, lower extremity edema, orthopnea, melena, hematochezia, hemoptysis, cough, or fever. He had a previous presentation with similar symptoms of [...]
Case Presentation: A 20 year old man with history of Systemic Lupus erythematous (SLE) with Lupus nephritis presented to the hospital with cough and hemoptysis for the past few days. He was found to have [...]
Case Presentation: A previously healthy 26-year-old Caucasian man presented with 2 weeks of upper extremity edema in the setting of 4 months of productive cough with blood-tinged sputum, arthralgias, unintentional weight loss, and fatigue. On [...]
Case Presentation: 80-year-old man with a history of hypertension, atrial fibrillation, chronic kidney disease, multiple strokes with mild residual expressive aphasia and right hemiparesis presented with one week of dyspnea, fatigue and two days of [...]
Case Presentation: A 74-year-old African-American woman presented to our Emergency Department with hemoptysis and severe respiratory distress. Two weeks prior to presentation, she was admitted with persistent cough and blood streaked sputum of 1-month duration [...]
Case Presentation: A 43 year-old-woman with no known medical history presented with two months intermittent fever, cough, pleurisy, hematuria, and weight loss. On exam she had diffuse crackles and lower extremity edema. The patient was [...]
Case Presentation: A 68 year old White female with atrial fibrillation presented with worsening dyspnea and cough. She was previously followed for similar symptoms and a computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest done in [...]
Case Presentation: 51yoM with no significant medical history presents to ED for evaluation of progressive bilaterally injected, painful conjunctiva of 1 months duration, nonproductive cough and pleuritic chest pain of 1 week’s duration. He was [...]
Case Presentation: 65-year-old female with hypertension and smoking history presented with a gradual onset of painful, edematous feet for 4-days. She continued to develop erythema and a constant, nonradiating pain in her feet. The patient also noted an increase [...]
Case Presentation: Our patient is a 77-year-old female with no past medical history who presented with two weeks of dyspnea on exertion, scant hemoptysis, and rhinorrhea with occasional blood. Vitals showed tachycardia, tachypnea, and hypoxia [...]