A 49-Year-Old Woman with Mild Symptoms of COVID-19 and Vasospasm-Induced Acute Limb Ischemia

49-year-old woman with chest pain.

Wasp stings (Vespa affinis) induced acute kidney injury following rhabdomyolysis in a 25-year-old woman.

 Wasp sting is a relatively common arthropod assault. This usually results in pain and mild allergic reactions, but sometimes may cause severe systemic reaction and multiorgan dysfunction including rhabdomyolysis, hemolysis, coagulopathy, hepatic, renal and cardiac complications. Along with several other pathomechanisms, rhabdomyolysis is a distinguished cause of acute kidney injury (AKI) in pa...

A 49-year-old woman with hypertension who deteriorates after acute myocardial infarction.

Case History (George Schroth, MD) The patient was a 49-year-old white woman with a history of essential hypertension and hypercholesterolemia and an unclear history of a stroke or aneurysm who presented after 2 days of intermittent, severe chest pressure associated with a severe headache. The symptoms had returned at 9:00 A.M. and were still present 2 hours later on presentation to the emergenc...

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...

A 52-year-old woman with asymptomatic annular erythematous plaques

A 52-year-old woman sought medical attention because of several annular erythematous lesions with central clearing on her body since seven months ago. No pruritus or burning sensations were noted. Her medical and family history was unremarkable. Her Fitzpatrick skin photo-type was II. On dermatological physical examination, there were several annular erythematous plaques with raised borders and...