A man with skin rash and respiratory failure

A hypogammaglobulinaemic man with respiratory failure.

COPD exacerbation associated with a skin rash.

ischemia. The appropriate management ofany patient who has experienced a cardiac arrest not related to a reversible mechanism (sepsis, pulmonary embolism) is to perform electrophysiology studies. The electrophysiology study is a reproducible method for studying the tachycardia and judging efficacy of antiarrhythmic drugs. If an antiarrhythmic drug can be found that prevents the provocation or i...

A skin rash with multiple pulmonary nodules.

A 37-year-old man presented with a 2-week history of fever and thoracic pain. On physical examination, he presented a nonpruritic skin rash (0.2–1-cm nontender pink papules) on the trunk (figure 1a), upper extremities, face and soles of the feet, which had developed about 2 months previously. He also had multiple palpable and painful lymph nodes. Additional history revealed that the patient had...

Skin rash in novel H7N9 influenza infection: a concern

A 33-Year-Old Man with a Facial Rash

121 A 33-y-old man presented to his primary care practitioner with a rash beginning around the left ear and spreading into the periorbital region. He was known to have eczema (atopic dermatitis), and the diagnosis of secondary bacterial infection and periorbital cellulitis was made. Because of a history of penicillin allergy, the patient was started on erythromycin. This treatment had no effect...