Hilary Ong, MD, Children’s National Medical Center CC: Coughing up blood HPI: 8yo boy with no past medical history, brought in for coughing up blood. He was in his usual state of health watching TV, when he felt a tickle in his throat, went to the bathroom and coughed up bright red blood and large […]
Author: Hilary Ong
Hilary was born in Los Angeles, but grew up in Hong Kong. She then moved back to California for college and medical school. Academically, she is interested in disaster medicine and environmental exposures. Global health is also a strong interest of hers. She has done global health research projects in China and Mongolia. Outside of work, she likes to swim, enjoy good food, beer and coffee, and watch movies.
Hot Seat Case #138: 8moF with respiratory distress
Hilary Ong, MD, Children’s National Medical Center HPI:8mo exFT Fwith history of wheezing brought in for respiratory distress and epistaxis. She was in her usual state of health when she woke up crying from sleep. Mom found her in her crib, with blood from her nose and she was breathing fast. Mom denies that her […]
Hot Seat Case #123: 5 year old male with red urine
Hilary Ong, MD Children’s National Medical Center with Shilpa Patel, MD Children’s National Medical Center HPI: 5 year old uncircumcised male with speech delay, who presents with red urine for 2 days. 2 days prior he developed acute onset of red discoloration of urine. Since then each time he urinates it is red in color […]
Hot Seat Case # 109: 16 year old male with a chronic cough
Hilary Ong, MD Children’s National Medical Center with Ioannis Koutroulis , MD Children’s National Medical Center 16 year old male with asthma and perinatally acquired HIV on antivirals who presented with a chronic cough that began a few months ago. The cough is sometimes productive with yellow mucous but often is a dry nonproductive cough. The […]
Hot Seat Case #104: 10 week old female with emesis
Hilary Ong, MD Children’s National Medical Center with Lenore Jarvis, MD Children’s National Medical Center 10 week old ex-FT female with no significant PMH presented with fever Tmax 101 and vomiting for 3 days and 1 day of intermittent increased work of breathing. She had not had any nasal congestion or cough recently, but siblings […]