Author: Hima Atluri, MD

Dr. Alvin Jeon recently presented a case of a 20 year old M who presented to the hospital with chest pain. Given the atypical nature of the chest pain, a CT chest was obtained and revealed a large anterior mediastinal mass that was ultimately found to be a thymoma. This diagnosis sparked an excellent discussion […]

Shout out to Dr. Akkad for her excellent case last week on a 51 year old woman with history of HTN, obesity and hyperlipidema who presented with progressive shortness of breath, fatigue and altered mental status for 1 week. Work up revealed that the patient was anemic and thrombocytopenic. Peripheral smear showed schistocytes (see above) […]