A 35-year-old woman called her primary care provider about a week’s duration of upper abdominal pain and ongoing shortness of breath, most noticeable with exertion.
A 38-year-old man presents with several days of ongoing severe abdominal pain in his upper abdomen that radiates to his back. He describes the pain as “boring and unrelenting” and is not crampy or colicky.
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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 70-year-old man who had undergone pacemaker placement for atrial fibrillation 21 years ago, with a generator change 4 years ago, was transferred from an outside hospital to our hospital for evaluation of...
A previously healthy 24-year-old man was working at his job as an automechanic when he acutely developed pleuritic chest pain on the right side and dyspnea. The pain was initially sharp and prompted him to...
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.
A 70-year-old man is being evaluated for a several-months history of cardiac palpitation. Approximately 3 months ago, he had experienced several episodes of palpitation that initially had been related to...
Hiccups are divided into 3 categories based on duration: brief, a bout lasting up to 48 hours; persistent, lasting from 48 hours to 1 month; and intractable, lasting longer than 1 month.
A 64-year-old African American woman presented to the emergency department with constant unremitting sharp pain in the epigastric region, which she rated as 10 of 10 in severity.
A 77-year-old man presented to the emergency department with bilateral lower extremity weakness. He had undergone 4-vessel coronary artery bypass graft surgery approximately 4 years previously and...
