Clinical Cases
Interesting Cases from Day-to-Day Practice
Case 47: Abdominal Wall Perforation
Cloie June Chiong
A 37 year old male with a past medical history of ulcerative colitis, now status-post total abdominal colectomy with a creation of end ileostomy, left-sided ureteral lysis due to ...
Case 46: Skin and Soft Tissue Infection
Alma Fregoso Leyva
73 year old male with a past medical history of coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, COPD, pulmonary fibrosis on 5L NC, and left lower extremity prosthetic joint in...
Case 45: Distal Both Bone Fracture
Teini Elisara
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An 82 year old female with a past medical history of anemia of chronic disease, breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, rectal adenocarcinoma, scleroderm...
Case 44: Interscalene Nerve Block for Shoulder Dislocation
Josh Gieschen
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32yo male with no PMH who presents following a fall down the stairs with no head strike or loss of consciousness. He endorses left shoulder pain and inability to range his le...
Case 43: Shortness of Breath
Molly Chou
An 83-year-old male presented to our emergency department with shortness of breath. He woke up that morning with symptoms and called EMS. On arrival, the patient was alert and oriented w...
Case 42: Nephrolithiasis
Alex Liang, Rachna Subramony
A 48 year old male with past medical history of Crohn’s Disease, cryptogenic cirrhosis, pancytopenia, portal vein thrombosis, Factor V Leiden, and prior history of kidn...
Case 41: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Skyler Sloane, Benjamin Supat, Colleen Campbell
An 83-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a chief complaint of acute onset lower abdominal pain radiating to the right groin. The...
Case 40: Rare Ocular Condition Diagnosed by Point-of-Care Ultrasound
Skyler Sloane, Andre Velazquez, Colleen Campbell
A 73-year-old male presented to our emergency department with a chief complaint of new intermittent double vision for the past two weeks. The patien...
Case 39: Superficial Thrombophlebitis
Aastha Shah
A 57-year-old male with a past medical history of HIV, hyperlipidemia (on a statin), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lumbar stenosis, and chronic diastolic heart failure p...
Case 38: Painless Worsening Vision
Liz Volochyna-Farber
A 37-year-old male with a past medical history of retinal detachment (RD) of the left eye (OS), left eye cataract surgery and retinal tear in the rigth eye (OD) s/p laser prese...