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Case Report: Covid-19 Associated Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Matthew Aharonov, Neelesh Parikh, James Espinosa, Alan Lucerna
Case Report: Covid-19 Associated Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Matthew Aharonov, Neelesh Parikh, James Espinosa, Alan Lucerna
Rowan-Virtua Research Day
We report a case of a 72-year-old female who presented to the emergency department with a complaint of generalized weakness. The patient was found to have ascending muscle weakness and subsequently diagnosed with Covid-19 related Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Our patient was negative for Campylobacter jejuni. It is noteworthy that the patient did not have fever, respiratory symptoms or loss of the sensation of taste.
Flexor Tenosynovitis After Bite By Sugar Glider, Dominick Siconolfi, James Espinosa, Alan Lucerna, Russell Mordecai
Flexor Tenosynovitis After Bite By Sugar Glider, Dominick Siconolfi, James Espinosa, Alan Lucerna, Russell Mordecai
Rowan-Virtua Research Day
Flexor tenosynovitis is one of the few orthopedic emergencies, often first identified in the emergency department. Pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis is an infection of the flexor tendon sheath of a finger causing local inflammation and tissue destruction. The pathognomonic symptoms of flexor tenosynovitis are known as Kanavel’s signs, a constellation of symptoms that include: pain with passive extension of the finger, tenderness over the flexor tendon sheath, fusiform swelling of the affected finger, and the finger held in passive flexion. The most common cause of flexor tenosynovitis is penetrating trauma into the flexion tendon sheath. Our case involves a 59-year-old male …