A Young Pregnant Person With Old Myocardial Infarction
This case report presents the electrocardiogram findings of a pregnant patient in their 30s with a family history of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.
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A 51-Year-Old Woman With Abnormal Corpus Callosum Signal
A 51-year-old woman presented with a 2-year history of progressive memory loss and left limb numbness. Imaging showed multifocal restricted diffusion in the corpus callosum and diffuse subcortical white matter hyperintensities and corpus callosum atrophy. What is your diagnosis?
Intermittent Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome Mimicking a Ventricular Tachycardia
This case report describes a patient in their 50s with a history of pneumoconiosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who presented to the emergency department with sudden onset shortness of breath.
Strategies to Improve Medical Communication
This JAMA Insights summarizes strategies for effective medical communication, with considerations for the message delivered, the messenger source, and the social context.
Anterior Chamber Snowflake After Keratoplasty
A 62-year-old woman presented with painless vision reduction and eye redness in the right eye for a week. Nine months after keratoplasty, she presented with diffuse tiny nodules all over the iris and a dense opacity in the anterior vitreous…
Sudden ST-Segment Changes in a Critically Ill Patient
A patient in his mid-60s underwent bilateral orthotopic lung transplant and is later hospitalized for sepsis from pneumonia complicated by acute transplant rejection, without any cardiac symptoms. He develops severe acute respiratory distress syndrome requiring intubation and paralysis. Electrocardiography shows…
Female Patient Presenting With Increasing Pedal Edema
This case report discusses a diagnosis of congenital bicuspid-tricuspid valve in a female patient in their 20s with a history of heart transplant.
A Painless Right Anterior Neck Mass
A 58-year-old woman presents with a several-week history of a painless right-sided swelling on her anterior neck. What is your diagnosis?
Recurrent Ventricular Fibrillation in an Apparently Healthy Patient
This case report describes a patient in their 50s who collapsed, received chest compressions, and recovered consciousness at home.
A 52-Year-Old With Painful Fingertips
A patient had cold, cyanotic fingertips with small ulcerations. Laboratory testing showed leukocytosis, eosinophilia, and elevated D-dimer level; results of tests for antinuclear antibodies, antiphospholipid antibodies, antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies against proteinase 3 and myeloperoxidase, and HIV were negative. What is…
