Management of a Retained Bullet in the Corpora Cavernosa after a Civilian Gunshot Injury: A Rare Scenario by Ali Abdel Raheem, Ibrahim Alowidah, Mohamed Almousa, Mohamed Alturki

“…A 24-year-old man presented to King Saud Medical City emergency department with a retained bullet in his penis following a civilian exchange of gunfire. …”
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Percutaneous Emergency Needle Caecostomy for Prevention of Caecal Perforation by Alexandra M. Limmer, Zackariah Clement

“…After careful review of computed tomography images and measurement of distances from the abdominal wall to the caecum, the patient’s caecum was decompressed in the emergency department using a needle under local anaesthetic. …”
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Congenital Bladder Diverticulum in Adults: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Rawad Abou Zahr, Khalil Chalhoub, Farah Ollaik, Joe Nohra

“…A 37-year-old male patient presented to the emergency department with fever, gross hematuria, and irritative lower urinary tract symptoms. …”
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A Case of Medialized Lateral Maxillary Sinus Wall: A Pillar of Support by I. A. Othman, N. D. Hashim, A. J. Nazimi

“…The number of maxillofacial trauma (MFT) cases attended in the Emergency Department is progressively increasing in trend, owing to the rising statistics of motor-vehicle accidents (MVAs) and urban assaults in addition to occupational-related injuries. …”
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Olmesartan Associated Sprue-Like Enteropathy and Colon Perforation by Mahmoud Abdelghany, Luis Gonzalez, John Slater, Christopher Begley

“…We are reporting a unique case of olmesartan associated severe sprue-like enteropathy in a 52-year-old woman who presented to our hospital complaining of severe abdominal pain and nausea. At the emergency department she suffered from a cardiac arrest and was found to have a colon perforation. …”
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Spontaneous Resolution of Primary Hyperparathyroidism in Parathyroid Adenoma by Sara J. Micale, Michael P. Kane, Robert S. Busch

“…A 71 yo woman with primary hyperparathyroidism awaiting surgery because of significant hypercalcemia and hypercalciuria presented to the local emergency department with the chief complaints of discomfort in her neck, sore throat, and difficulty swallowing. …”
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Endoscopic resection of oxyntic gland adenoma with internal traction technique (with video) by Yi-Chen Li, Ben-Hua Wu, Jun Yao, Cheng Wei

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Iatrogenic Delayed Aortic Injury Following a Surgical Stabilization of Flail Chest by Junepill Seok, Hyun Min Cho, Seon Hee Kim, Ho Hyun Kim

“…Most of aortic injuries after blunt chest trauma usually occur at the aortic isthmus and are identified in the emergency department soon after arrival. Delayed aortic injures by fractured posterior ribs, however, are relatively rare and have been reported only a few times. …”
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Point-of-Care Cardiac Ultrasound Training Programme: Experience from the University Hospital Hradec Králové by Petr Grenar, Jiří Nový, Karel Mědílek, Martin Jakl

“…In cooperation with cardiologists specialised in cardiac ultrasound (ECHO), an extended acute echo protocol dedicated to emergency department physicians was developed and validated in daily practice. …”
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Fecal Impaction in the Rectum and Rectosigmoid Colon Secondary to Sunflower Seed Ingestion by Alexander Lyons, Jamie Lee, Kristen Cares

“…A 35-month-old male who had eaten a bag of sunflower seeds initially presented to the emergency department (ED) with visible seeds in the anus and was discharged home with a stool softener after manual disimpaction. …”
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Kounis and Takotsubo, Two Syndromes Bound by Adrenaline: The “ATAK” Complex by Ravi Vazirani Ballesteros, Juan Carlos Gómez Polo, Carmen Olmos, Isidre Vilacosta

“…A 50-year-old male was brought to the emergency department in anaphylactic shock. He had progressive exertional dyspnea and angina for the past 2 days. …”
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Aortic Valve Fibroelastoma Masquerading as Transient Ischaemic Attack by Penelope-Anne Gowland, Ragheb Hasan

“…The following paper is on a 49-year-old man who presented to accident and emergency department having experienced five hours of left-sided chest pain, tightness in the chest, and shortness of breath. …”
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A Case of Severe Mitral Valve Regurgitation in a Patient with Leadless Pacemaker by Srikala R. Gumireddy, Minako Katayama, Hari P. Chaliki

“…Despite this treatment, he had recurrent episodes of paroxysmal symptomatic atrial fibrillation with a rapid rate requiring multiple emergency department visits and hospital admissions. Given difficulty to control the rate, he underwent atrioventricular (AV) nodal ablation and leadless pacemaker insertion. …”
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The Beneficial Role of Nrf2 in the Endothelial Dysfunction of Atherosclerosis by Zixia Huang, Mingyue Wu, Lijin Zeng, Deming Wang

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Appendiceal Endometriosis and Carcinoid Presented as Acute Appendicitis in Pregnancy: A Rare Case Report and Review of the Literature by Panagiotis A. Dimitriadis, Ragai R. Makar, Gearoid Kingston, Ridzuan Farouk

“…A 22-year-old pregnant woman presented at the twenty-seventh week of gestation in the Emergency Department with acute abdominal pain and right iliac fossa tenderness. …”
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Occipital Neuralgia. A Case Report by Urbano Solis Cartas, Olga Gloria Barbón Pérez, Eduardo Lino Bascó Fuentes

“…This case is of interest given the frequent emergency department visits by patients with neck pain and the scarcity of studies on this condition…”
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Gestational Trophoblastic Disease Presents as an Ectopic Tubal Pregnancy, a Rare Entity by Haneen Al-Maghrabi, Daniyah Saleh, Abdelrazak Meliti

“…In this paper, we report a case of ectopic complete molar pregnancy in a 39-year-old lady who presented to the emergency department with lower abdominal pain, abdominal distention, and low-grade fever. …”
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An unusual case of chest pain by Gabriella Nucera, Giulia Cantoni, Pietro Marino

“…We report the case of a 40-year-old woman presenting during the night to the emergency department for thoracic pain and pain in the upper arm. …”
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Methamphetamine-Induced Bowel Ischemia in a 50-Year-Old Male by Brian Kurtz, Abdalhai Alshoubi, Katrina Nguyen, Eric Gehres

“…We describe a case of a 50-year-old male with a history of polysubstance abuse who presented to the Emergency Department with severe abdominal pain and coffee-ground emesis. …”
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A Rare Cutaneous Manifestation: Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis after Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccination by Yaritza Serrano Gomez, Brittney Grella, Hongbei Wang

“…We present a case of an 81-year-old male evaluated in the emergency department for a bilateral purpuric non-blanching rash that appeared ten days after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech booster vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. …”
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