Brady Pregerson, MD

November 08, 2012

The patient, a 70-year-old man, has been having difficulty chewing and swallowing has been using his hand to hold his jaw closed while he eats; otherwise, his jaw hangs open. His speech is slightly slurred.

September 19, 2012

Most cases of “pink eye” are caused by infectious, or occasionally allergic, conjunctivitis. Occasionally, however, a rare and more serious condition-such as a corneal ulcer or iritis-may masquerade as conjunctivitis, as in this patient.

September 18, 2012

Look closely at this image. Does this look like conjunctivitis. . . or something else?

July 19, 2012

The key diagnostic considerations hypokalemia, periodic paralysis, and ischemia should lead the assessment of a patient with acute generalized weakness.

June 22, 2012

Vertebral artery dissection may be misdiagnosed as post-concussive syndrome, stroke, or TIA, based on neurologic symptoms. Always consider after neck trauma.

April 07, 2012

What is causing this clubbing of the fingernails, and what is it called?

March 07, 2012

A woman in her 20’s presents for care after 9 days of sore throat and subjective fevers followed by neck stiffness that developed over the last 2 to 3 days. The pain is exacerbated by swallowing and any neck motion. She has had sore throats before, but never this bad or this long and never that made her neck stiff.

July 02, 2004

For 3 days, a 47-year-old woman had a painful red swelling on her finger.The patient--a cellist--had tried to lance the lesion at home, but itprogressively worsened and was now “throbbing.” She denied fever andnail biting.