84-Year-Old Woman With Hemodialysis-Associated Shortness of Breath

A 36-year-old woman with shortness of breath.

A 64-year-old woman with a past medical history of hypertension and diabetes mellitus presented to the emergency department complaining of shortness of breath and right-sided chest pain for one month. Her shortness of breath had gradually worsened to the point where she was feeling short of breath while at rest. She described her chest pain as sharp, worse with deep inspiration, and located nea...

A 24-year-old woman with episodes of shortness of breath, cough and wheezing.

A 4-Year-Old Boy With Shortness of Breath

A 4-year-old boy presented to the general practitioner (GP) with a 24-hour history of progressively worsening shortness of breath (SOB). Over this time period, a productive cough and fever had also developed. The patient had no history of respiratory disease and there were no sick contacts. For the last fortnight, however, his mother reported that he has " not been his usual self " : appearing ...

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...