Clinical Vignettes
Interesting cases seen during the course of my clinical work.
25th August 2018: Facial pain and nasal discharge in a middle-aged man with asthma.
24th June 2018: Stepping on a sea urchin.
16th June 2018: Renal transplant patient with seizures and loss of consciousness.
3rd June 2018: A patient with renal transplant and leathery hands.
25th February 2018: A bronchiectasis patient with worsening cough and weight loss.
11th February 2018: An elderly man with fever and right buttock pain.
28th January 2018: A young man from India with generalized seizures.
6th January 2018: A young man with sore throat followed by fever, chills and jaundice.
21st October 2017: A man with primary autoimmune haemolytic anaemia and painful knee swelling.
16th September 2017: Bright orange urine.
26th June 2017: A young man with a cutaneous fungal abscess.
23rd June 2017: A young child with keriorrhea.
10th June 2017: A teenager with fever after visiting a Bruneian national park.
25th May 2017: A middle-aged man with sudden onset right eye pain and swelling.
30th April 2017: A middle-aged woman with IUD and pelvic abscess.
23rd Apri 2017: A young man with pruritis ani.
18th March 2017: A woman with liver cirrhosis who developed fever and a rash.
27th February 2017: A man with recurrent left hip pain following hip implantation.
14th October 2016: A young man with AML and a pulmonary nodule post-transplant.
15th September 2016: Radiological quiz.
31st August 2016: A young man with high fever, URTI symptoms, and a rash.
14th August 2016: A young man who was non-adherent to TB treatment.
5th August 2016: Middle-aged man with painful lower limb lesions.
29th July 2016: Renal failure on hemodialysis with fever of unknown origin.
26th June 2016: Asymptomatic person with an unusual object passed per rectum.
13th June 2016: Abdominal wall inflammation after azacitidine injections from myelodysplastic syndrome.
22nd May 2016: Middle-aged man with lung cancer and progressive breathlessness after starting pembrolizumab.
8th March 2016: Young man from South Asia with an abdominal subcutaneous lump.
29th February 2016: Young man from South Asia with worsening headache.
7th February 2016: Middle-aged woman with prolonged cough.
4th February 2016: Fingernails.
21st January 2016: A young woman with chemotherapy-associated febrile neutropenia.
16th December 2015: A middle-aged man with MRSA bacteraemia.
14th November 2015: A young pregnant woman exposed to varicella.
23rd October 2015: A young man with penile discharge.
10th October 2015: A man with MRSA bacteraemia and a cardiac pacemaker.
3rd October 2015: A teenage girl with fever, cough and chest X-ray changes.
26th September 2015: A pregnant woman with a rash on her hands.
29th August 2015: Middle-aged housewife with fever, headache and photophobia.
22nd August 2015: ECG quiz 2.
15th August 2015: Young pregnant woman with cervical lymphadenopathy.
8th August 2015: Middle-aged man with hypotension and past history of tuberculosis.
1st August 2015: Middle-aged man with frequent travel, abdominal pain and eosinophilia.
11th July 2015: Late middle-aged man with fever, neck stiffness and left hemiparesis.
4th July 2015: Teenager with a rash on the foot after regional travel.
27th June 2015: Young man with a chest lesion on pre-employment screening.
20th June 2015: Persistent CMV viraemia in a patient post-stem cell transplantation.
6th June 2015: Young man with HIV and diarrhoea of 2 weeks.
30th May 2015: Elderly man with right-sided abdominal pain.
23rd May 2015: Elderly woman with necrotising fasciitis after a trip to the beach.
16th May 2015: Young woman with recurrent headache and fever.
9th May 2015: Middle-aged woman with sudden-onset fever and confusion.
2nd May 2015: Middle-aged man on maintenance chemotherapy with fever, cough and miliary shadows on radiological imaging.
26th April 2015: Middle-aged woman with AML and a lung nodule.
18th April 2015: Elderly man with bacteraemia and chest pain.
11th April 2015: Elderly woman on hemodialysis with zoster.
4th April 2015: Middle-aged man post-renal transplantation with TB pleurisy.
28th March 2015: Middle-aged man with fever and abdominal pain.
21st March 2015: Middle-aged woman with fever and drowsiness.
7th March 2015: Middle-aged woman with ALL and pneumonia.
28th February 2015: Elderly man with an incidental external ventricular drain tip culture.
21st February 2015: Middle-aged lady with autoimmune hepatitis and meningoencephalitis.
14th February 2015: Massive pleural effusion and fever post-4 vessel angiogram.
7th February 2015: Diabetic gardener with fever and dysuria.
31st January 2015: Elderly gentleman with past tuberculosis and current hemoptysis.
24th January 2015: Middled-aged sailor with cardiac tamponade.
17th January 2015: ECG quiz 1.
10th January 2015: Middle-aged woman from Bangladesh with leukemia and fever.
3rd January 2015: Elderly man with nosocomial extremely drug-resistant Acinetobacter infection.
28th December 2014: Young man with fever after returning from Africa.
20th December 2014: Middle-aged man post allogeneic stem cell transplantation with a new lung complication.
13th December 2014: Middle-aged man post allogeneic stem cell transplantation with a cough.
6th December 2014: Young girl with fever and cough.
29th November 2014: Elderly cancer patient with a rash.
22nd November 2014: Middle-aged man with a left lower back nodule.
15th November 2014: Middle-aged man with a painful right thigh.
8th November 2014: Elderly Indonesian man with fever and weight loss.
1st November 2014: Persistent febrile neutropenia post hyper-CVAD with brain lesions.
25th October 2014: Fever in a man from Myanmar.
18th October 2014: Incidental findings on the blood film of a man from Myanmar.
11th October 2014: Fever in a young man from Bangladesh.
4th October 2014: Boil in a traveler from Tanzania.
28th September 2014: Neck lump in a young man from Myanmar.