Dr. Miranda Theodore (Medicine): A 28-year-old woman was transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) of this hospital because of progressive respiratory failure. The patient had been in her usual ...

While cardiac and pulmonary POCUS are common, MSK and vascular POCUS remain underutilized despite their significant benefits in various clinical scenarios.

Most patients are diagnosed on postmortem examination. Antemortem diagnosis is rare because many patients have normal or only atypical chest x-rays. Chest x-rays often mimic those of other diseases by ...

A pulmonary embolism (PE) is a blockage in one of the arteries in your lungs. Arteries are the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart to the organs, muscles, and other tissue. Most of the ...

Dr. Leanna J. Travis (Medicine): An 82-year-old woman presented to the emergency department of this hospital because of worsening abdominal distention and pedal edema. Three weeks before the current ...

A 72-year-old man with ischemic cardiomyopathy and heart failure with reduced ejection fraction presented to his physician with cough and shortness of breath associated with a low-grade fever for the ...