December 2022
A 45-year-old woman with a history of sickle cell disease presents to the emergency department with severe lumbar pain.
Case of the Month Archive
Section Editor: Nicholas Stence, MD
Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
November 2022
A 3-year-old girl with developmental delay presents with seizures refractory to multiple antiepileptics.
October 2022
A 42-year-old man after a high-speed motor vehicle collision; initial GCS is 3.
September 2022
A 55-year-old woman with a 2-year history of persistent LUE weakness and numbness; diagnosed with fibromyalgia by an outside provider; presents to the hospital with an acute exacerbation of symptoms
August 2022
A previously healthy 30-year-old woman was admitted to the emergency department with severe right temporoparietal headache followed by left motor and sensory deficit. Neurologic examination evidenced a left hemiparesis (grade 4) and hemianesthesia. Complete clinical recovery ensued in 3 hours.
July 2022
A 71-year-old woman with back pain irradiated to lower limbs, claudication, and limitation of the basic activities of daily life
June 2022
A 62-year-old woman with insidious onset, progressive swelling, redness, and excessive lacrimation in both eyes (R>L) for 2 months; accompanying complaints of gait imbalance for 1 month
May 2022
A 60-year-old woman with no significant past medical history presents with acute left facial droop and left-sided numbness/weakness. A stroke code is initiated.
April 2022
A 19-year-old man with no past medical history presents to the emergency department with worsening headache and left-sided weakness/numbness for the past week and new-onset nausea and vomiting.
March 2022
A 61-year-old woman with a long-standing history of rheumatoid arthritis presented to an outside hospital complaining of several hours of worsening dysphagia. She was having difficulty swallowing her secretions on the day prior to admission and started choking after attempting to take her daily medication. There was no respiratory distress upon initial presentation. She developed stridor and began to desaturate in the ED, requiring bedside intubation.
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