Meeting
Abstract Number: L2
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 79-year-old male with vasculopathy, hypertension, diastolic heart failure, and dialysis-dependent end stage renal disease presented after having hypotensive syncopal episodes during initiation of his last 3 outpatient dialysis sessions. Upon dialysis cessation, he quickly awakened fully oriented with a normal hemodynamics. On arrival, physical exam findings were unrevealing, as were a subsequent […]
Abstract Number: E37
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 76-year-old male was admitted to an outside hospital with several weeks of progressive dyspnea and wheezing. His past medical history was significant for ischemic cardiomyopathy, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and chronic kidney disease. His social history was significant for having lived in Somalia, Yemen, and Indonesia prior to immigrating to the United […]
Abstract Number: J34
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 50-year-old man presented with one week of diarrhea. He reported ten voluminous watery bowel movements each day, nausea, and frequent non-bloody, non-bilious emesis. Additional symptoms included increasing right-sided abdominal pain, generalized pruritus, and diffuse weakness. Eating meat exacerbated both his abdominal discomfort and pruritus. His history included Ulcerative Colitis, Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, […]
Abstract Number: P32
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: We present a case of rapidly progressive Hypereosinophilic Syndrome (HES), a possible late complication of Sars-CoV-2 (COVID-19). A previously healthy 48-yr old male recovered from COVID-19 approximately 30 days before symptom onset. He had fevers, chills, diffuse abdominal pain with nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea with diffuse erythematous pruritic rash and Raynaud’s phenomenon (Image […]