Meeting
Abstract Number: 501
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old never-smoker female with hypothyroidism and rheumatoid arthritis on etanercept presented with intermittent hemoptysis. Three days prior, she reported coughing ~100mL of frank blood and clots (Figure 1) over the course of 24 hours, with smaller volumes over the next two days (~50 mL total). She recounted a similar episode of hemoptysis […]
Abstract Number: 1218
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 70 year old female with past medical history of COPD on 2 liters oxygen at baseline presented with acute hypoxic respiratory failure due to COPD exacerbation secondary to metapneumovirus infection. Her hospitalization was prolonged from Methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia which required prolonged intubation, antibiotics and finally a tracheostomy. She was noted […]