It’s not in to be thin: SMA syndrome
Case presentation A 14-year-old male is brought to the emergency department with severe diffuse abdominal pain. He has had multiple episodes of nonbloody but bilious emesis accompanying the pain. There…
Case presentation A 14-year-old male is brought to the emergency department with severe diffuse abdominal pain. He has had multiple episodes of nonbloody but bilious emesis accompanying the pain. There…
Case presentation A 13-year-old female presents with acute onset of right lower quadrant pain for the past 4 hours. She states that she has been in her usual, normal state…
Case presentation A 10-year-old male presents with 2 days of initially intermittent, now constant, abdominal pain. He states that the pain started on the right side of his abdomen and…
Case presentation An 8-month-old male presents with 2 months of cough and intermittent rhinorrhea. He has been seen multiple times by his primary care provider and has been diagnosed at…
Case presentation A 13-year-old male presents to the emergency department (ED) with 2 weeks of chest pain. He describes the pain as sharp and constant, worsening over the past week….
Case presentation A 4-month-old male presents with bilateral scrotal swelling. Per the mother, this has been present since 1 month of age but has worsened over the past week and…
Case presentation A 7-week-old male presents with difficulty breathing while feeding for 1 day. The child is formula fed 3 ounces every 3–4 hours, but over the past 2–3 days,…
Case presentation A 12-hour-old infant presents “looking blue” and with poor feeding per the mother. The child was delivered at home and the mother had no prenatal care. She describes…
Case presentation A 3-week-old male presents with nonbilious, nonbloody emesis for the past 1.5 weeks. Initially there were two to three episodes per day, occasionally with feeding, but this has…
Case presentation A 10-day-old infant presents to the emergency department with 1 day of fussiness, decreased oral intake, decreased urine output, and three grossly bloody stools. There has been no…