A 27-year-old woman with no significant medical history presented with sudden-onset midsternal chest pain radiating to her arms bilaterally, dizziness, diffuse band-like headache, intermittent blurry...
A 33-year-old postpartum woman presented to our emergency department with dyspnea, orthopnea, and generalized abdominal pain and distention for 2 days. She had been having trouble breathing at rest and had...
A 22-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a sore throat. His pain began 12 hours earlier on the left side and subsequently progressed to the right side.
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...