55-year-old Male with Fatigue

Case 1/2012: 55-year-old male with multiple coronary artery aneurysms due to Kawasaki disease.

The patient, six months before, had complained of diffuse pain in the right hemithorax at rest, which radiated to the left elbow at exertion. At the chest radiography and tomography (Fig. 1), cardiac opacities in imaging examination led to the hypothesis of the presence of coronary stents, which was discarded, as they had not been previously implanted. On further investigation by echocardiograp...

A 55-year-old male immigrant with lymphoma and Gram-negative sepsis

1Department of Internal Medicine; 2Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of internal medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Amarillo, Texas, USA Correspondence: Dr Faisal A Khasawneh, Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 1400 South Coulter Street, Amarillo, Texas 79106, USA. Telephone 806-690-7074, f...

Photo Quiz: A 55-Year-Old Male with Hoarseness of Voice and Laryngeal Mass.

A 55-year-old peruvian woman with unresponsive pulmonary tuberculosis.

A 55-year-old Peruvian woman presented to our outpatient clinic with a 7-month history of cough, whitish sputum with bloody streaks, and occasional hemoptysis (up to 125 mL). She also had moderate chest pain and progressive shortness of breath without fever or weight loss. With the onset of symptoms, she noted the first of 4 sequential pruritic nodular skin lesions over different areas of her t...

A 55-year-old Man with Painless Joint Swelling.

A 55-year-old man presented with swelling of left knee for the past one month. He also complained of episodes of joint locking. There was no history of pain, fever or trauma. Physical examination revealed localized increase in temperature of the skin, a large joint effusion, and decreased range of motion. His total leukocyte count was normal; ESR was raised to 48 mm in the first hour. Anteropos...