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An otherwise well 29-year-old woman presents eight days after an uncomplicated vaginal delivery with a headache that has gradually intensified over four days. I…
A 45-year-old man presents after four days of worsening right lower quadrant pain, fever and anorexia. Examination finds a tender, relatively fixed mass in the…
A 79-year-old woman presents with four days of intermittent cramping abdominal pain, vomiting and increasing abdominal distension. She has no history of abdomin…
A 76-year-old man with persistent atrial fibrillation develops sudden severe abdominal pain and vomiting. He is pale and distressed, but his abdomen is initiall…
A 67-year-old man with a previous midline laparotomy presents with colicky abdominal pain, vomiting and progressive distension. Initially the pain came in waves…
A 24-year-old woman presents with 12 hours of abdominal pain, nausea and anorexia. The pain began around the umbilicus and is now most severe in the right iliac…
A 67-year-old man has become withdrawn and stopped eating over six weeks. He says his organs have rotted and that his family will be financially ruined because…
A 30-year-old woman is brought by her partner 10 days after giving birth. For four nights she has slept for less than two hours, says the infant has been exchan…
A 66-year-old man is admitted with melaena from a duodenal ulcer and undergoes successful endoscopic haemostasis. He has taken aspirin 100 mg daily since a myoc…
A 69-year-old man has had three episodes of melaena over two months and requires repeated iron infusions. He takes no non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and…
A 67-year-old man presents with recurrent passage of bright-red blood and clots. After initial fluid replacement, his blood pressure is 126/74 mmHg and pulse is…
A 71-year-old man receiving an unfractionated heparin infusion for a recent pulmonary embolus develops recurrent haematemesis and hypotension. The infusion is s…
A 64-year-old woman with cirrhosis presents with fresh haematemesis and melaena. After intravenous access, cautious crystalloid and cross-matched blood have bee…
A 32-year-old man presents to an Australian emergency department with fever, headache and myalgia 10 days after returning from Papua New Guinea. He took doxycyc…
A 3-year-old child is admitted with invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b infection. The child lives with both parents and a 20-month-old sibling who has recei…
A 26-year-old woman is identified as a household contact of a patient with invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B. She is 2…
A 4-year-old child in a childcare centre has had paroxysmal coughing with post-tussive vomiting for 12 days, and PCR has detected Bordetella pertussis. He is ot…
A 9-year-old refugee presents with a sore throat and neck swelling after arriving in Australia from a region with limited vaccination coverage. He is febrile bu…
A 26-year-old man is referred for recurrent episodes of yellowing of the eyes, usually after intercurrent illness. He has no pruritus, abdominal pain or weight…
A 32-year-old woman at 34 weeks gestation reports two weeks of intense itching that is worse at night and began on her hands and feet. She has no rash, abdomina…