Hematuria (Case 16)
Hematuria (Case 16) Spirithoula Vasilopoulos MD and Michael Gitman MD Case: The patient is a 60-year-old male who, during an annual physician visit, was found to have hematuria. His medical…
Abnormal Electrolytes (Case 15)
Abnormal Electrolytes (Case 15) Rabeena Fazal MD and Alessandro Bellucci MD Case: A 76-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and coronary artery disease presents to the ED with complaints…
Esophageal Dysphagia (Case 21)
Esophageal Dysphagia (Case 21) Benjamin Ngo MD and John Abramson MD Case: A 50-year-old man is encouraged by his wife to present for an evaluation of difficulty swallowing solid food…
Cough (Case 9)
Chapter 15Cough (Case 9) Ranjit Nair MD and Sean M. Studer MD, MSc Case: The patient is a 66-year-old man with a history of diet-controlled diabetes mellitus who works as…
Congestive Heart Failure (Case 5)
Chapter 10Congestive Heart Failure (Case 5) Sameer Bashey MD and Michael Kim MD Case: The patient is a 68-year-old woman with a past medical history of hypertension and rheumatoid arthritis….
Palpitations and Arrhythmias (Case 6)
Palpitations and Arrhythmias (Case 6) Arzhang Fallahi MD and Michael Kim MD Case: A 75-year-old man with a history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia presents to the emergency department complaining of…
Hemoptysis (Case 10)
Hemoptysis (Case 10) Sudheer Nambiar MD and Pratik Patel MD Case: The patient is a 70-year-old African-American woman who was admitted with massive hemoptysis. Seven months before this admission, she…
Chest Pain (Case 4)
Chapter 8Chest Pain (Case 4) Arzhang Fallahi MD and Michael Kim MD Case: A 54-year-old man with a history of smoking, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia comes to the emergency department complaining…
Preventive Medicine (Case 1)
Preventive Medicine (Case 1) Cynthia D. Smith MD and Brian Wojciechowski MD Case: A 60-year-old female kindergarten teacher presents for a checkup. She has no complaints and has not seen…
Dyspnea (Case 8)
Chapter 14Dyspnea (Case 8) Esaïe Carisma DO and Christina Migliore MD Case: The patient is a 57-year-old forklift driver in a local warehouse. He has noticed progressive shortness of breath…
