A 70-year-old man presented to your office with a history of chest “discomfort” of several months’ duration. He is not precisely sure when it had started but knows it has been present for at least 3 to 4...
A 79-year-old man presented to the emergency department for increasingly severe bilateral proximal upper- and lower-extremity muscle weakness, balance deficit, and loss of strength and mobility.
An 87-year-old woman with a medical history of hypertension, depression, right humeral fracture, and right orbital and maxillary fractures presented after a nonsyncopal fall and subsequent bruising on the...
An 89-year-old man presented to the emergency department after having been sent from his primary care provider’s office over concern for possible dehydration, which had caused the patient to become weak and...
A 79-year-old man is being evaluated for aortic stenosis. He is known to have had aortic stenosis for the last several years, with serial clinical follow-up visits for symptoms and noninvasive tests for...
A 70-year-old man who had undergone pacemaker placement for atrial fibrillation 21 years ago, with a generator change 4 years ago, was transferred from an outside hospital to our hospital for evaluation of...
An 83-year-old woman presented to our clinic with abnormal swelling in the left thigh. The patient’s swelling had been present for more than 10 years and was progressively increasing in size.
A 73-year-old woman presented with a rash on her upper back. She had a history of essential hypertension, hypothyroidism, and breast cancer, the latter of which had been treated with surgery, chemotherapy,...
An 85-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with altered mental status, uncontrolled hypertension, and tachycardia that had been noted during a regularly scheduled hemodialysis session. The lower part...
