Interesting Diagnoses Made By Our Interns

Acute Babesiosis
Acute Malarial Disease
Brucellosis
Cardiac Amyloidosis (yawn – we see amyloidosis in all forms!)
Chronic IVC Filter Thrombosis
Ciguatera Poisoning 2/2 Eating Red Snapper
CNS Toxoplasmosis
Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease
Dengue Fever
Dextrocardia with Situs Inversus
Disseminated Foreign Body Talcosis Secondary to IV Methadone Use
Drug Reaction Systemic Eosinophilic Syndrome
Dural Sinus Venous Thrombosis
Eastern Equine Encephalitis
Ectopic Right Ventricular Thyroid Gland
Ehrlichiosis
Endocarditis (yawn – acute, subacute, culture-positive, HACEK, Libman-Sacks, you name it!)
Ethylene Glycol Intoxication
Factor XIII deficiency
Filariasis
Goodpasture’s Syndrome
HAART-Induced Fulminant Liver Failure
Hand Sanitizer Ingestion CNS Depression
Hepatitis B Related Cryoglobulinemic Nephropathy
Hepatorenal Syndrome
Herpes Encephalitis
HIT with Thrombosis (HITT)
Hypothermia Causing Slow Atrial Fibrillation
IgA Pemphigus of the Lungs Complicated by ESBL Pseudomonas
Intentional Warfarin Poisoning
Invasive Aspergilloma
Kuru
Loeffler’s syndrome
LV Outflow Obstruction 2/2 Massive Hiatal Hernia
Lynch I syndrome
Massive AMI in 34 yo Female with No Risk Factors
Megaesophagus of Unknown Etiology
Meropenem-Induced Seizures in Pregnant Woman
Methemoglobinemia 2/2 Dapsone
Myasthenia Gravis
Neurocystercercosis
Polymyositis/Dermatomyositis
Porphyria Cutanea Tarda
Pott’s Disease
Propylene Glycol Induced Acute Renal Failure 2/2 Ativan Infusion
Pulmonary Hypertension 2/2 Scleroderma, Chronic Thromboembolic Disease, HIV-related, Sickle Cell Disease, Sarcoidosis, Idiopathic
Rat Bite Fever
Scleroderma Renal Crisis
Severe RHF 2/2 Chronic RV Ischemia
Stewart-Treves Syndrome after Mastectomy for Breast Cancer (in a guy!)
Still’s Disease
Strongyloidiasis
Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
Takayasu’s Arteritis
Takotsubo’s Cardiomyopathy – ETOH Withdrawal-Related
Thyroid Storm
Tuberculous Meningitis
Typhoid Fever
Vanishing Bile Duct Syndrome
Wegener’s Granulomatosis
Wernicke Encephalopathy Reversed with IV Thiamine