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Morning Report at the Toronto Western Hospital

Monday, October 24, 2016

Acute Chest Syndrome in Sickle Cell Disease

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During Grand Morning Report, we briefly discussed a patient with sickle cell disease and a history of acute chest syndrome.  This is a comm...
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Sunday, July 31, 2016

Initiation of Therapy for Active TB

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We have discussed the initiation of TB therapy on a few occasions already this year, including a case where a patient developed toxicity t...
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Sunday, July 17, 2016

Approach to Dyspnea in a Patient with an Underlying Malignancy

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--> In morning report this week, we discussed the case of a woman with a known history of breast cancer presenting with shortness...
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Friday, April 8, 2016

Tumor Lysis Syndrome

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Today in morning report we discussed a case of newly diagnosed lymphoma and tumor lysis syndrome. Here are a few key points based on our di...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Staph Aureus Bacteremia

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We discussed a case of non-specific abdominal pain and the diagnosis was found to be a staphylococcus aureus epidural abscess! Just to ...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Hypothermia

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Today in morning report we discussed the case of a patient who presented with hypothermia. We don't come across this every day in GIM s...
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Sunday, November 1, 2015

Evaluating a patient with headache

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We discussed an interesting case of a young man presenting with a headache. This is such a common complaint that it is worth having a solid...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Elevated Troponin and Rheumatic Heart Disease

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Today we discussed a case of a woman with chest pain, new atrial fibrillation and an elevated troponin. She likely had rheumatic fever as a ...
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