84-Year-Old Woman With Chest Pain

49-year-old woman with chest pain.

A 19-year-old woman with pleuritic chest pain

Case presentation A 19-year-old woman with a medical history significant for poorly controlled diabetes mellitus (DM) (hemoglobin A1C 11.2%) presented with a 12-day history of right-sided pleuritic chest pain. One month earlier, she had developed sudden-onset fever, dry cough and shortness of breath. At the time, she did not have any gastrointestinal symptoms including epigastric pain, heartbur...

Dyspnea and Chest Pain in a 45-Year-Old Woman.

DR. JONATHAN AMELI: Today’s patient is a 45-year-old woman who presents with difficulty breathing and chest pressure. Her chest discomfort has been constant since the morning. She had mild chest pain the day before, but ignored it due to fear of visiting the emergency department (ED). The patient has a history of bipolar disorder, morbid obesity, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...

Case Report: 84 year-old woman with alien hand syndrome

Background: Alien hand syndrome [AHS] is a rare and ill-defined neurological disorder. It produces complex, goal-directed motion of one hand that is involuntarily instigated. This syndrome characteristically arises after brain trauma, brain surgery, stroke or encephalitis. We describe a case of AHS in a patient who had a previous episode of subarachnoid hemorrhage affecting the left frontal lob...

An 84-year-old woman with fever and dark urine.

Figure 1. Wright Giemsa-stained thin prep peripheral blood smears (original magnification, ϫ1000) demonstrating appliqué (B) and headphone (C) morphologies, which are characteristic of Plasmodium falciparum, and extracellular ring forms (D), which are characteristic of Babesia microti. Diagnosis: Babesiosis due to Babesia microti infection from a tick bite. Peripheral blood smear from the state...