Also known as: Radiation poisoning
The patient developed severe immunocompromise, recurrent infections, and life-threatening complications after prolonged exposure to a radioactive industrial device his father gave him as a keychain. This is the central diagnosis driving the entire episode.
Also known as: Brain stem vascular malformation
A tumor within the patient's spinal cord causing the electric shock-like sensations and neurological symptoms. Required urgent surgical excision due to risk of respiratory or cardiac arrest.
Also known as: Perforated intestine
The patient developed multiple perforations in his sigmoid colon as a complication of infection and immunocompromise, requiring emergency surgical repair and causing intraoperative hemorrhage.
Initially considered as a potential diagnosis to explain the patient's neurological symptoms and sphincter dysfunction, later determined to be secondary to the spinal cord tumor and radiation effects.
Also known as: GI bleed
The patient's friend developed vomiting blood after radiation exposure from carrying the radioactive device, requiring hospital admission and treatment for radiation sickness.