A 57-year-old woman with a history of hypothyroidism and breast cancer, for which she had undergone a mastectomy 10 years prior, presented to the emergency department with a 1-day history of right...
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...
A 71-year-old woman with a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, coronary artery disease, hypertension, and diabetes presented with dyspnea and septic shock. Volume resuscitation and antibiotics...
A 27-year-old man presented to the ED for a headache that had been present for 2 weeks. He reported that the headache was dull, varying in intensity throughout the day, worse in the morning and after work,...
A 23-year-old woman with no significant medical history presented to the emergency department with acute onset of abdominal bloating and severe cramping. She had gone for a walk about an hour after having...
A 49-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 1-day history of progressive bilateral lower-extremity weakness and an inability to bear weight.
An 89-year-old man presented to the emergency department after having been sent from his primary care provider’s office over concern for possible dehydration, which had caused the patient to become weak and...
A 39-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with altered mental status, ophthalmoplegia, paroxysms of extremity weakness associated with progressive ataxia, and diminished lower extremity...
A 13-year-old otherwise healthy girl presented to the emergency department with a 3-week history of progressive swelling of the right side of her neck and underneath the right side of her tongue.
