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| Preface | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Cardiac Disease | |
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| A 45-Year-Old Man with Substantial Chest Pain | |
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| A 48-Year-Old Cocaine User with Chest Pain | |
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| Pulmonary Diseases | |
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| Shortness of Breath with Productive Cough | |
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| Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Cystic Fibrosis | |
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| Renal Disease | |
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| Man with Hypertension and Fever | |
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| Oliguria with Metabolic Acidosis after Renal Transplantation | |
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| A Woman with Uremia, Pulmonary Infiltration, and Hemoptysis | |
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| Young Man with Edema and Decreased Urine Output | |
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| A New Doctor for a Man with Diabetes and Hypertension | |
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| A Pain in the Back | |
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| Refractory Hyponatremia with Lung Cancer | |
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| Liver Diseases | |
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| Adolescent Female with Tremor, Depression, and Hepatitis | |
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| Adult Male with New-Onset Ascites | |
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| An Unexpected Finding... | |
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| I Did It Just Once-A 37-Year-Old Man with Hepatitis C | |
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| Obese Woman with Persistently Abnormal Liver Enzymes | |
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| Thyroid Diseases | |
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| The Irritable Wife | |
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| The Fatigued Attorney | |
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| The Reluctant Chef | |
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| Adrenocortical Diseases | |
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| Child with Rapid Growth and Precocious Sexual Maturation | |
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| Weight Gain, Infertility, and Hypertension | |
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| The Tired Teenager | |
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| The Hypertensive Accountant | |
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| Don't "Take Two Aspirin and Call Me in the Morning" | |
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| Unpleasant Spells | |
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| Diabetes | |
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| Recent Weight Loss and Polyuria in a 52-Year-Old Man | |
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| An Unconscious Diabetic Male | |
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| A Diabetic Woman's "Episode" | |
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| Calcium and Parathyroid Hormone (PTH) | |
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| Bad to the Bone | |
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| A Middle-Aged Woman with Colle's Fracture | |
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| A 10-Year-Old Boy with Pain-Induced Seizures | |
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| Miscellaneous Endocrine Diseases | |
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| Laboratory Tests Ignored | |
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| Hot Flashes and Abdominal Pain | |
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| Genetically Inherited Disorders | |
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| Feed a Cold | |
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| Acute Neonatal Ammonia Intoxication | |
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| Not Just a Picky Eater | |
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| The "Fussy" Neonate | |
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| The "Sleepy" Neonate | |
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| A Happy but Developmentally Delayed 5-Year-Old Boy | |
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| The Asymptomatic Iron Man | |
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| Infectious Diseases | |
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| Tired, Hot, and Lumpy | |
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| A Rash on the Soles of the Feet | |
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| When Life Gives You Lemons | |
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| The Wheezing Woodsman | |
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| Not Just Heartburn | |
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| The Dangers of Yardwork | |
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| Nonhematologic Malignancies | |
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| An Important Finding on Routine Screening | |
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| Increasing Abdominal Girth | |
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| To Screen or Not to Screen? | |
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| A Male with Confusing hCG Results | |
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| Size Greater than Dates | |
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| Hematologic Malignancies | |
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| A Man with Anemia and Lymphocytosis | |
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| A Teenager with Pneumonia, Leukopenia, and Ecchymoses | |
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| A Middle-Aged Man with Chronic Foot Ulcer | |
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| A Man with Progressive Effort Intolerance and Splenomegaly | |
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| A Man with Splenic Vein Thrombosis and Polycythemia | |
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| Benign Hematologic Disorders | |
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| A Child with Pneumonia | |
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| A Man with a Tender Toe and Anemia | |
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| A Woman with Fatigue and Pallor | |
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| Pulseless Leg 9 Days after a Myocardial Infarction | |
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| Young Girl with a Bloody Knee Effusion | |
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| A Young Man with Chest Pain Following a Knee Injury | |
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| A Young Woman with Postpartum Cerebral Venous Thrombosis and Abnormal Coagulation Tests | |
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| A Baby with Petechiae and Bruises | |
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| Evaluation of a Reference Range Outlier | |
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| A Woman with Abdominal Pain and Thrombocytopenia | |
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| Sudden Jaundice and Painful Fingers | |
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| The Good in "Bad" Fish Tacos | |
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| The Jaundiced Mother | |
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| Porphyrias | |
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| Young Woman with Recurrent Abdominal Pain | |
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| A 9-Year-Old Boy with Skin Lesions and Headaches | |
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| Pharmacogenomics | |
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| Personalized Medicine for a Renal Transplant Patient | |
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| Personalized Medicine for Pain Management | |
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| A Man with Colitis and Pancytopenia | |
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| A 46-Year-Old Female with a Painful, Swollen Right Calf | |
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| Toxicology | |
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| A Case of Mixed Club Drugs Abuse | |
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| A 43-Year-Old Male with Chronic Pain | |
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| Metabolic Acidosis of Unknown Origin Among Burn Patients | |
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| Lipid Disorders | |
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| The Family Reunion Party | |
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| A 5-Year-Old Boy with Yellow-Orange Tonsils: Hypoalphalipoproteinemia | |
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| Worsening Diarrhea in a 5-Year-Old Girl | |
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| A 4-Year-Old Girl with Yellow Xanthomas and Arthritis | |
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| Autoimmune Diseases | |
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| Woman with Morning Stiffness and Tender, Swollen Joints | |
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| Woman with a Rash and Lower Extremity Pain | |
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| Woman with Diarrhea and Anemia | |
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| Analytical Errors | |
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| Where's My Baby? | |
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| Elevated Concentrations, but Not Elevated Enough | |
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| I Want To Go Home! | |
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| Is That Really the Calcium Value? | |
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| Miscellaneous | |
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| A Man with Fever and Acute Polyarthritis | |
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| Middle-Aged Alcoholic with Jaundice and Ascites | |
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| Where Did the Red Cells Go? | |
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| Index | |