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Slide Injury Leading to Bacteremia and Sepsis in a Pediatric Patient
09/19/2023

Drew Burgess1 • Felicia Cooper, MD2 • Pankaj Watal, MD2 • Syed A. Ali, MD2

 

Drew Burgess1 • Felicia Cooper, MD2 • Pankaj Watal, MD2 • Syed A. Ali, MD2  
An 8-year-old girl presented to an outside community emergency department (ED) with 2 weeks of joint pain impeding her ability to walk and progressive abdominal pain.
09/19/2023
Case In Point
CIP
Case In Point
Pain in a Man With Opioid Use Disorder Who Is Taking Medication-Assisted Therapy
09/19/2023
A 62-year-old White man presented to our emergency department with symptoms of right-sided facial numbness and dysarthria. He also had been having abdominal pain for the previous 5 days, which was...
09/19/2023
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Shigellosis Presenting with Myocarditis
09/15/2023

Monarch Shah, MD1 • Farrah Alarmanazi, MS42 • Aquib Gani, MS42

Monarch Shah, MD1 • Farrah Alarmanazi, MS42 • Aquib Gani, MS42
A 31-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with 3 days of nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain, and 2 days of diarrhea. The vomitus consisted of food particles but did not contain blood. Her...
09/15/2023
What's Your Diagnosis?
Brain scan
What's Your Diagnosis?
Progressive Confusion and Recurrent Falls After Bariatric Surgery
09/03/2023
A 26-year-old woman presented to the emergency department (ED) with progressive confusion and recurrent falls. The patient reported having vomiting and diarrhea for 1 week and several falls 1 day before her...
09/03/2023
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Cat-Scratch Disease Presenting as Fever of Unknown Origin
08/31/2023
A 34-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 4-week history of daily fevers, myalgia, headache, cough, vomiting, and diarrhea. She had a medical history significant for migraines,...
08/31/2023
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Spontaneous Psoas Hematoma Secondary to Anticoagulation
08/30/2023
A 72-year-old woman with a history of congestive heart failure, chronic lymphedema, and hypothyroidism presented with worsening bilateral lower-extremity swelling and weakness. She was found to be in atrial...
08/30/2023
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Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae Sternoclavicular Joint Septic Arthritis
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Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae Sternoclavicular Joint Septic Arthritis
08/22/2023
A 71-year-old man presented to our emergency department with worsening right shoulder pain over the past month and new-onset right upper chest pain. He had a medical history significant for right shoulder...
08/22/2023
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Less Is More: A Collaborative, Non-Operative Approach to Care for a Patient With Pleural Effusion
08/18/2023

Afolake Mobolaji, MD, MPH1 • Folashade Omole, MD1

Afolake Mobolaji, MD, MPH1 • Folashade Omole, MD1
A 68-year-old woman presented to the emergency room with pleuritic left-sided chest pain associated with shortness of breath and a productive cough with clear sputum but no hemoptysis.
08/18/2023
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post-traumatic abnormal breathing scan
radiology quiz
Post-Traumatic Abnormal Breathing Pattern
08/08/2023

Alexandra Close, BS1 • Maaria Chaudhry, MS32 • Kirill Alekseyev, MD3 • Bilal Chaudhry, MD4

Alexandra Close, BS1 • Maaria Chaudhry, MS32 • Kirill Alekseyev, MD3 • Bilal Chaudhry, ...
A 60-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with blunt thoracic trauma after a head-on motor vehicle accident.
08/08/2023
Case In Point
hip and leg bone diagram
Case In Point
Chronic Osteomyelitis Caused by Finegoldia magna
07/13/2023
A 26-year-old incarcerated man presented to the emergency department with a complication of osteomyelitis of the left ischium, which had been diagnosed previously.
07/13/2023