Also known as: Pig poo parasite infection
A man with complete memory loss presents with recurrent respiratory collapse, cold agglutinins causing blood to coagulate in cold temperatures, and cardiac arrest. The team eventually discovers he's a farm equipment salesman exposed to pig lagoons, leading to the diagnosis of eperythrozoon infection transmitted through pig waste.
Also known as: CAD
The patient's blood coagulates and turns to 'sludge' when exposed to cool temperatures, requiring constant warming through hot tubs and induced fever. This is a complication of his underlying eperythrozoon infection.
Also known as: Ballantyne syndrome
The patient exhibits complete anterograde amnesia and mirrors the identity, behaviors, symptoms, and emotional states of whoever he perceives as being in authority around him. His brain fills in missing personal information with whatever environmental cues are available.
Also known as: Breathing failure
The patient experiences recurrent episodes of respiratory collapse requiring emergency intervention, initially suspected to be laryngospasm but later understood as a manifestation of his infection and cold agglutinin complications.
Also known as: V-fib
The patient goes into ventricular fibrillation during treatment with induced fever in a hot tub, requiring emergency defibrillation after being removed from the water.