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Sep
22
Layered effusion of knee joint
17 year old previously healthy male presented to the ED with R knee swelling after he caught and hyperextended his leg while doing motocross the …
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Aug
24
Hemopericardium s/p thoracocentesis
Patient was a 72 y/o male with no known history, who was brought in to the ED as a MVC trauma. In the field, paramedics …
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Aug
21
Acute Vision Loss
22 year old with no past medical history except for myopia and corrective lenses presents with acute painless monocular vision loss that began 2 days …
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Mar
20
A Sparkling Heart
56yo male, with history of systolic and diastolic CHF status post ICD, secondary to amyloidosis, presented to the ED with LLE swelling. Top differential diagnoses …
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Nov
30
The IVC Clot
74 y.o. male with a 90 pack year smoking history who presented to the LLUMC ED w/ SOB for 2 days duration associated with a …
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Oct
23
Pulmonary Hypertension and the D-sign
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A 31 y.o. female patient, with a history of Pulmonary Hypertension, Vasovagal Syncope, Dyspnea On Exertion, and Chronic Systolic Right Heart Failure, was admitted for …
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Sep
25
Quick Calculation of Aortic Stenosis with Bedside Ultrasound
71 year old male with PMH ESRD and extensive cardiac history including CAD, CHF, A-fib, aortic valve stenosis and pHTN in the MICU for neurosurgical …
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Aug
30
Shoulder Pain after Seizure
A 45 year old male with known seizure history presented to the ED for evaluation after possible seizure activity in his home. After experiencing a …
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Mar
28
Longitudinal in plane line placement
79 year old female with a history of bladder cancer in her 3rd week of chemotherapy, atrial fibrillation, and hypertension, presented with altered mental status, …
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Mar
08
The Case of the Leaking Endograft
89 y.o. male with history of AAA, 9 cm wide and 16 cm in length, presented to the ED with back pain ongoing for one …
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Feb
27
Phrygian cap
A 70 year old male with a PMH of gallstone pancreatitis was brought to the ED after a 3 day history of fever, disorientation and …
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Feb
24
Vitr
42 year old American American male with a long standing history of uncontrolled diabetes presented ED with c/o unilateral vision loss. He has had vision …
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Jan
30
The Case of the Floating Lung
54 M with pmhx of HTN and previous right-sided empyema in 2014 presenting from Big Bear with left sided chest pain for possible NSTEMI. EKG …
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Jan
30
Endocarditis
A 24yr old IV drug user with no past medical history presents with dyspnea and pleuritic chest pain. Patient reports being ill for the past …
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Dec
01
Retinal Detachment
A 56 year old female with a past medical history of atrial fibrillation on Coumadin, ESRD on hemodialysis, diabetes mellitus, hypertension and dyslipidemia presented to …
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Nov
20
Tramponade: trampoline + tamponade
A 47-year-old male presented to the ED with a chief complaint of progressive shortness of breath x 3 weeks. Records from an outside hospital had …
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Sep
26
The Octopus Trap
A 78 y/o woman was admitted to the MICU for hypoxemic respiratory failure and sepsis thought to be secondary to pneumonia. She was intubated and …
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Sep
25
The Overproducing Ovaries
A 23 year old female presented to the ED with chest pain and shortness of breath. Having no significant past cardiopulmonary medical history in a …
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Sep
13
Patient Positioning Makes a Difference
73 yo male was evaluated by our team in the MICU and noted to have new onset hypotension. Good cardiac images were extremely difficult to …
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Aug
28
Lung ABC’s
This 84 year old male patient was managed in the MICU for septic shock after presenting to the ED with abdominal pain, decreased appetite, and …
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Aug
28
The Rejected Heart
A 28 year old female presented to the LLUMC ED with chest pain. She had a history of viral myocarditis at age 18 which culminated …
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Aug
26
Diagnosing Appendicitis in the Pediatric Population
This is a 6 year old female presenting to the ED with 1 day of severe abdominal pain and nausea/vomiting. The patient reported her pain …
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May
22
The Bizarro Pneumothorax
Our patient was a 63 year old AA male who was present in the ICU with sepsis requiring pressors. We looked at the standard sites …
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May
21
Abscess with Vascularity – Concerned?
55 y/o male with PMH of DM, HTN, hypothyroid, arthritis, and smoking noticed a pimple sized swelling on his right upper back, progressively increasing in …
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Mar
02
Maximizing Your Real Estate to Maximize Your Scans
This is a 76 year old female with an extensive medical history including atrial fibrillation who presented to the emergency room with significant epigastric pain, …
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Jan
22
The Woman with a Big Heart
51 y/o female with a PMH of pulmonary HTN, R heart failure, tricuspid insufficiency, hepatitis C, and DM II presented with worsening pulmonary HTN and …
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Jan
17
Finding the IVC on a cirrhotic Patient
A 54 year old female with history of severe liver cirrhosis presented with extensive ascites. Ultrasound was requested to assess fluid status and degree of …
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Dec
20
Pyloric Stenosis in the Pediatric Patient
6 week old female presenting with recurrence of projectile vomiting. 8 days before current presentation patient had pyloromyotomy after similar clinical presentation. Mother says the …
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Dec
02
Evaluating FHR in early pregnancy
29 year old G2P1001 presented to ED with vaginal bleeding. Patient reported that she is currently 7 weeks pregnant. She denied any cramping, abdominal pain, …
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Nov
29
Gallbladder Gems
55 year old obese female with history of IBS, GERD, and asthma brought in by her daughter for intermittent right upper quadrant pain x 4 …
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Oct
21
Abdominal Cellulitis?
55 year-old morbidly obese female with history of Diabetes, DVT, and Elephantiasis sent to the ED by her primary care physician for evaluation of cellulitis. …
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Oct
20
Bedside Ocular Ultrasound
33 y.o. male presented with partial loss of vision in left eye which began 9 months ago 3 min after removing his contact lense. Patient …
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Sep
15
Pleural or Pericardial Effusion?
This is a 35 y.o. male I saw while on the MICU service. He originally presented to the Emergency Department with a chief complaint of …