Antibiotic resistance leads to an estimated 2.8 million infections and 35,000 deaths per year in the United States, making it one of the greatest public health threats today. Prescribing antibiotics...
An 8-year-old boy presented to the emergency department (ED) with a 2-day history of acute worsening of oral cavity pain. His father noted a bright pink swelling over the boy’s hard palate at the midline,...
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 79-year-old man presented to the emergency department for increasingly severe bilateral proximal upper- and lower-extremity muscle weakness, balance deficit, and loss of strength and mobility.
A 13-year-old girl presented to the clinic with hair loss and a rash in the axillae for 4 months. The lesions initially had appeared as erythematous and coin-shaped and then had evolved into hyperpigmented...
A 79-year-old man is being evaluated for aortic stenosis. He is known to have had aortic stenosis for the last several years, with serial clinical follow-up visits for symptoms and noninvasive tests for...
A 7-year-old boy with a history of eczema presented with painful peeling of his fingernails of several days’ duration. He denied any trauma or other inciting injury to his fingernails. His mother had a...
A 43-year-old woman with recently diagnosed hypothyroidism presented with a 3-month history of declining cognition, confusion, disorientation, and an inability to communicate or ambulate. She had become...
This Photo Essay is part of a series describing and differentiating dermatologic lumps and bumps. This column highlights angiokeratoma of Fordyce and idiopathic scrotal calcinosis.
A 76-year-old man presented with cardiac arrest due to massive pulmonary embolism. The patient was stabilized after successful catheter-directed thrombectomy followed by catheter-based thrombolysis.
An otherwise healthy 4-year-old girl with no pertinent medical history presented to a pediatric primary care urgent care clinic due to persistent bilateral knee pain, with more pain in the left knee than in...
