Meeting
Abstract Number: 478
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 69-year-old woman, previously diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and managed with Metformin, along with a history of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, was admitted to the hospital due to abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea that had been ongoing for the three days leading up to her presentation. On arrival at […]
Abstract Number: 719
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: Case Presentation: This is a 3 year old male who recently returned from two months traveling in Liberia. In Liberia, he contracted malaria and was treated with two days of IV antimalarial treatment (thought to be artesunate) followed by three days of oral artemether-lumefantrine with improvement in symptoms. Ten days after completing treatment, […]
Abstract Number: 826
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: This is a 32 year old male with no pertinent medical history who presented to the emergency department with complaints of headache, body aches, vomiting, diarrhea, fevers and chills for 4 days. The patient also admits to generalized weakness and poor appetite. The patient denies any chest pain, dyspnea, shortness of breath. The […]
Abstract Number: 882
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 58-year-old Nigerian American man with a history of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor with metastases to the liver and spleen, developed large volume hematemesis while traveling in Nigeria, requiring stabilization at a local hospital. He received 13 units of blood and an upper endoscopy revealed gastric varices. Two weeks later, he presented to our […]