Friday Pop Quiz 8/1/2025
A 3-month-old infant presents with the findings seen in the photo in the first week of life. The mother reports the infant was born with a membrane encasing it that later "peeled off". History is also notable for poor weight gain and multiple rounds of antibiotics since birth. On physical exam there is diffuse erythema, scaling, and sparse eyebrow hair. Laboratory studies show eosinophilia (1, …
Friday Pop Quiz 7/18/2025
A 45-year-old man presents to the office with weakness and the lesions on his hand pictured. His symptoms have been progressively worsening over the last 5 months. He works as a nurse and has had difficulty walking up the stairs and lifting patients. He has a history of frontal migraines for which he occasionally takes ibuprofen. He takes a cholesterol lowering medication and is otherwise heal …
Friday Pop Quiz 7/11/2025
            A 70-year-old woman with biopsy-confirmed bullous pemphigoid presents with new-onset confusion, hypotension, and leukocytosis two weeks after starting systemic prednisone 60 mg daily. She also reports tremors and blood glucose of 320 mg/dL. What is the next best step in management? A. Taper corticosteroids and begin doxycycline and …