An Unexpected Cause of Sepsis: Keep Pursuing the Source of Infection.

An 86-year-old man was found with altered mental status, fever and aphasia. His physical exam revealed nuchal rigidity but no other meningeal signs. Because the patient's mental status was declining, he was intubated and placed in mechanical ventilation.

Flexible Bronchoscopic Removal of 3 Foreign Objects.

Consider flexible bronchoscopy as an option to retrieve aspirated foreign bodies in the airway.

Misleading Diagnosis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: A Clinical Concern.

Diagnosis of Sjogren syndrome should be based on consideration of the clinical presentation, a pulmonary function test, blood and rheumatology laboratory findings, radiographic imaging patterns, and biopsy results.

Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure Secondary to Zika Virus Infection.

An 80-year-old man experienced general weakness, myalgias, arthralgias, fever, chills, and diarrhea for one week. He had hypotension and tachycardia. He also had leukocytosis, thrombocytopenia, increased creatinine levels, elevated liver enzymes, elevated creatine phosphokinase (CPK) levels, and metabolic acidosis with hypoxemia, for which he was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

A VERY RARE NEOPLASM IN AN IMMUNOCOMPETENT PATIENT.

Kaposi's sarcoma is a rare malignancy requiring infection with human Herpes virus for development. We report a case of a 76-year-old immunocompetent male with recurrent leg cellulitis. The cellulitis eventually developed into a non-healing ulcer and a palpable nodule consistent with nodular Kaposi's sarcoma.