Articles
A Patient with Liver Lesions
Renzo A. Moreno Macedo, MD
A 57-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with one week of cough and subjective fever. Chest imaging showed no pulmonary abnormalities, but multiple liver lesions were incidentally identified. She had no abdominal pain or ga...
A Postoperative Patient with Hypoxia and an Abnormal Chest Radiograph
Mohammed K. Zubaidi, MD, Ali J. Ahmed, MD
A 67-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer developed an oxygen saturation of 70% one hour after radical mastectomy with axillary lymph node dissection. She was tachypneic; her other vital signs were within normal limits. An anterop...
A Febrile Patient with an Abnormal ECG
Alec Rezigh, MD, Stephanie Sherman, MD, Zaven Sargsyan, MD
A 60-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with two weeks of progressive malaise, anorexia, and fever. Evaluation revealed leukocytosis, thrombocytopenia, and acute kidney injury. Murine typhus was suspected and confirmed ser...