Also known as: Heart rejection
Five-year-old post-heart transplant patient presents with shortness of breath. Initial concern for transplant rejection, but biopsy reveals no rejection. Patient's condition deteriorates with progressive organ failures.
Also known as: Tetralogy of Fallot
Background condition that led to Kiri requiring four heart surgeries and eventual heart transplant at a young age.
Also known as: Blood type switch
Extremely rare complication where Kiri's blood type changed from AB to O (matching her donor heart) following E. coli infection, causing her body to reject all organs except the transplanted heart. Treated with immunosuppressants.
Also known as: E. coli infection
Previous E. coli infection approximately one month prior that triggered the extremely rare blood type conversion in this transplant patient.
Also known as: Toxic poisoning
Eighty-year-old former KGB/CIA double agent presents with extremely high blood sugar and altered consciousness. Discovered to have intentionally self-administered dioxin rather than go to a nursing home.
Also known as: High blood sugar
Presenting symptom in elderly patient found in park with altered mental status, later discovered to be secondary to dioxin poisoning.
Also known as: Severe flu
Dr. Frome is sick at home with the flu and fever, forcing him to miss work despite wanting to help patients.