Antibiotic resistance leads to an estimated 2.8 million infections and 35,000 deaths per year in the United States, making it one of the greatest public health threats today. Prescribing antibiotics...
A 13-year-old girl presented to the clinic with hair loss and a rash in the axillae for 4 months. The lesions initially had appeared as erythematous and coin-shaped and then had evolved into hyperpigmented...
A 79-year-old man is being evaluated for aortic stenosis. He is known to have had aortic stenosis for the last several years, with serial clinical follow-up visits for symptoms and noninvasive tests for...
A 7-year-old boy with a history of eczema presented with painful peeling of his fingernails of several days’ duration. He denied any trauma or other inciting injury to his fingernails. His mother had a...
A 43-year-old woman with recently diagnosed hypothyroidism presented with a 3-month history of declining cognition, confusion, disorientation, and an inability to communicate or ambulate. She had become...
This Photo Essay is part of a series describing and differentiating dermatologic lumps and bumps. This column highlights angiokeratoma of Fordyce and idiopathic scrotal calcinosis.
A 79-year-old man presented to the emergency department for increasingly severe bilateral proximal upper- and lower-extremity muscle weakness, balance deficit, and loss of strength and mobility.
A 76-year-old man presented with cardiac arrest due to massive pulmonary embolism. The patient was stabilized after successful catheter-directed thrombectomy followed by catheter-based thrombolysis.
Myxedema coma is a rare life-threatening endocrine emergency whose consequences include varying degrees of altered mental state, hypothermia, bradycardia, low cardiac output, hypoventilation, and...
An 8-year-old boy presented to the emergency department (ED) with a 2-day history of acute worsening of oral cavity pain. His father noted a bright pink swelling over the boy’s hard palate at the midline,...
An otherwise healthy 4-year-old girl with no pertinent medical history presented to a pediatric primary care urgent care clinic due to persistent bilateral knee pain, with more pain in the left knee than in...
