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A Cook County Hospital Emergency Medicine Blog for up-to-date medicine and more.

Consider the Probe - Traumatic Lens Dislocation Identified on Ocular Ultrasound

March 28, 2023

The Case:

The patient is a 61-year-old male with non-insulin dependent diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery disease status post CABG in 2019 who presented with blurry vision of the left eye after being hit on the face with a blunt object by his roommate approximately ten days prior to presentation. The patient reports that over the past year his roommate had been abusing him physically. Ten days prior to presentation, the patient was hit in the face with an unknown blunt object, causing him to lose consciousness for an unknown period. He awoke with left eye swelling and blurry vision in the left eye which he has had since. He denies headache, dizziness, eye pain, tearing or discharge, foreign body sensation, or double vision.

Jordyn Cohen, MD

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Consider The Probe - Spine Sign - It's Got Your Back!

April 22, 2022

The Case:

A 68-year-old male with a history of CHF, COPD, CAD s/p stenting, HTN, and DM presents to the emergency department with worsening dyspnea and bilateral lower extremity edema for one week with associated orthopnea, and increased home oxygen requirement.

Sherin Mahrat, MD

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Consider the Probe: Myocarditis

May 27, 2021

A short lecture series on ultrasound cases seen in the Cook County ED

This week, PGY-2 Dr. Debessai, gives us a short informative talk on myocarditis.

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