A 50-year-old man with multiple psychiatric comorbidities including major depressive disorder and general anxiety disorder presented to the emergency room (ER) with altered mental status, immobility and mutism. The patient was unresponsive to commands and unable to provide any history. In the ER he was given a provisional diagnosis of cerebrovascular accident (CVA).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAdult T cell lymphoma (ATL), is a peripheral T cell neoplasm associated with infection by human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV). This is a case of a 28-year-old lady who presented with back pain for the past month and recent onset weakness in her lower extremities bilaterally. She has a history of T-cell lymphoma secondary to HTLV-1 under remission since 2014 and systemic lupus erythematosus complicated by lupus nephritis.
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