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Abstract Number: 830
ATYPICAL MANIFESTATION OF BREAST CANCER
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 55-year-old female admitted for evaluation of new-onset dyspnea on exertion, a week duration and progressed rapidly. The patient also endorsed fatigue, orthopnea, pedal edema, and chest pain. Patient was tachycardic in 100’s and saturation over 95% on 2L nasal cannula. The rest of her vitals were normal. At admission, the patient did [...]
Abstract Number: 831
AN INSPIRING DIAGNOSIS
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 69 year old woman presented to our hospital with 5 days of fever, diarrhea, abdominal pain & debilitating leg pain. Her only known medical problem was hyperlipidemia, for which she had recently increased her statin dose. 6 weeks prior to admission, she visited her hometown in Jiangxi, China. There, she drank tap [...]
Abstract Number: 832
NON ARTICULAR FELTY’S SYNDROME
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 70 year old female with a history of diabetes presented to the hospital for evaluation of pancytopenia and neutropenic fever. She was found to have pancytopenia on routine blood work. about 2 months prior to presentation. She complained of intermittent fever and chills for 1 week. She denied any specific complaints including [...]
Abstract Number: 833
BOUVERET’S SYNDROME UNUSUAL PRESENTION OF SMALL BOWEL OBSTRUCTION
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 79 yo. female with PMH of A. Fib on Warfarin, HFpEF, Hypertension,PVD, CKD-III who presented to the hospital with generalized weakness and recent falls. Reported gradual decline over about 1 month before admission. She reported that symptoms started with “stomach flu” about 4 days prior with chills, nausea, and abdominal pain. She complained [...]
Abstract Number: 834
SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF REFRACTORY TAFRO SYNDROME WITH COMBINATION OF TOCILIZUMAB AND RITUXIMAB
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 45-year-old Japanese woman with no significant medical history presented to a primary care physician with a four-week history of fever and coughing. She had also developed fatigue and peripheral edema and was therefore admitted to another hospital. On presentation, her body temperature was 37.5℃, pulse was 98 beats per minute, blood pressure [...]
Abstract Number: 835
ACUTE PANCREATITIS, A RARE COMPLICATION OF INFLUENZA VACCINE : A CASE REPORT
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 81 YO M patient with medical history significant of Type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension and hypothyroidism presented to the emergency room in the month of October with the complaints of abdominal pain and nausea for 1 day, progressively worsened, constant, with no relieving factors. His social determinants included one glass of wine or [...]
Abstract Number: 836
AV FISTULA CAUSING ISCHEMIC PROCTOCOLITIS BY STEAL PHENOMENON
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 64 year old female with a pmh of Klinefelter’s syndrome (XXY) s/p gender reassignment surgery, hypothyroidism, asthma, obesity, hyperlipidemia and diverticulosis presented with 6 days of worsening lower abdominal pain and discomfort with diarrhea, mucus and bloody stools along with low-grade fevers, nausea, fatigue, weakness and lower abdominal cramping exacerbated by bowel [...]
Abstract Number: 838
YOU BETTER KEEP IT COMPACT!
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 24-year-old male with no significant past medical history came to the emergency department (ED) after he was found unconscious at home. He had agonal respirations, which was reversed by Narcan at the scene and the patient was combative in the ED.He was tachycardic with heart rate of 120, saturation maintained at 92% on [...]
Abstract Number: 839
A CASE OF NEUROGNATHOSTOMIASIS: A RARE PROTOZOAN INFECTION IN THE UNITED STATES
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 49-year-old Thai male with no past medical history presented after one-week of progressive left arm pain, numbness, and weakness that radiated to his neck. The patient was a chef who had immigrated to the United States five years previously with no return travel to Southeast Asia. His lab work was largely unremarkable [...]
Abstract Number: 840
DERMATOMYOSITIS: A DIFFICULT DIAGNOSIS TO SWALLOW
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: The patient is a 77-year-old woman who presented with a two-day history of progressively worsening oropharyngeal dysphagia, dysphonia and left upper extremity weakness. She was discharged from the hospital three days prior for a three-month history of a pruritic rash. During the previous hospitalization, she was noted to have facial erythema, Shawl and [...]