Also known as: Cardiac arrest from chest impact
A 21-year-old professional tennis player suffers cardiac arrest after being struck in the chest by a tennis ball, leading to commotio cordis. His heart initially stops, is restarted with an AED, but then develops recurrent arrhythmias including v-tach and atrial fibrillation.
Also known as: HHT
The underlying genetic diagnosis for Montez's recurrent nosebleeds, pulmonary AVM with hemoptysis, and atrial fibrillation. The team discovers this connects all his seemingly unrelated symptoms.
Also known as: AVM
A pulmonary AVM is discovered on CT scan, causing the tennis player to cough up blood. This is identified as part of his HHT diagnosis.
A patient with 16 years of chronic abdominal pain is finally diagnosed with nutcracker syndrome, where the renal vein is compressed causing severe pain. This diagnosis had been missed by numerous previous doctors.
A second diagnosis compounding Lisa's pain, affecting the ureter and causing excruciating loin pain. The team performs a kidney autotransplant to address both this and the nutcracker syndrome.
Also known as: Brain cancer
A tumor in the left occipital lobe (vision center) causes seizures, peripheral vision loss, and visual hallucinations. The patient sees images of his deceased wife filling in his blind spot (Charles Bonnet Syndrome).
Visual hallucinations caused by vision loss from the brain tumor. The patient sees vivid images of his deceased wife in his blind spot, making him initially reluctant to undergo surgery that would remove the tumor.
Also known as: Dislocated shoulder
The patient presents with a left shoulder dislocation following a car accident, which is later revealed to have been caused by a seizure from his brain tumor.
Also known as: Coronavirus
A patient in the COVID ICU who believes COVID is a hoax refuses treatment. April uses a deceptive approach to get consent for intubation. The patient develops a pulmonary embolism and codes.
Also known as: Blood clot in lung
The COVID patient develops a pulmonary embolism and goes into PEA arrest, requiring emergency resuscitation by April who pushes medications without physician orders.
Also known as: Bladder blockage
Lisa initially presents with urinary retention contributing to her abdominal pain, requiring bladder catheterization before the underlying renal conditions are discovered.