A young girl with a four-year history of vomiting, nausea, and bloody stools. Her father researched and correctly diagnosed visceral myopathy after 13 doctors missed it. She develops a serious bowel obstruction requiring emergency surgery and later a perforation. The final treatment involves a PC tube as a pressure valve combined with prokinetics and acetylcholinesterase inhibitors to manage the condition.
Also known as: IPF
A woman who returned from India with progressive cough and shortness of breath. Her left lung is heavily scarred and right lung is damaged. She develops florid respiratory failure and requires ECMO support. Without a donor lung available in time, her estranged son becomes a living donor for a lung transplant.
Also known as: Blocked intestine
Holly presents with a distended abdomen and hypoactive bowel sounds indicating serious obstruction, which transforms her case from internal medicine to surgical. This is a complication of her underlying visceral myopathy.
Also known as: Perforated intestine
Holly develops a bowel perforation after treatment with Rituximab fails, requiring emergency surgery. The episode also references that Holly's mother died from complications of a perforated bowel after childbirth, suggesting genetic predisposition.