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Abstract Number: P2
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 14-year-old boy with autism presented with a five-day history of high fever (40.5 degrees C), vomiting, shortness of breath, and a rash involving the palms-and-soles. He was evaluated at urgent care and was believed to have hand-foot-mouth disease. He was brought to the emergency department for ongoing symptoms, where he was noted […]
Abstract Number: A40
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 50-year-old man with a past medical history notable for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, peptic ulcer disease, gout, and depression presented to the emergency department with a 5-day history of constant, sharp, epigastric abdominal pain. Preceding these symptoms, he experienced an episode of severe nausea, non-bilious non-bloody vomiting, diarrhea, and chills after eating […]
Abstract Number: G25
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 52-year-old man presented with 3 weeks of intermittent fevers along with 3 days of epigastric pain and black stool in the setting of recent travel to the Poconos, Pennsylvania and Ecuador. While at his vacation home in the Poconos mountains, the patient spent time clearing away brush and ate cooked wild mushrooms […]
Abstract Number: G44
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 33-year-old woman with a past medical history of a calcaneal fracture requiring internal fixation complicated by poor wound healing and repair with a free flap, and polymicrobial osteomyelitis on home amoxicillin-clavulanate and IV daptomycin presented with three days of fevers, chills, and generalized malaise. She reported adherence to her home antibiotic regimen. […]
Abstract Number: L26
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 19-year-old female with past medical history of asthma, GERD, and anxiety presented with chief complaint of dyspnea, fever, pleuritic chest pain, and vomiting. She was diagnosed with community acquired pneumonia based on multifocal opacities on CT and started on ceftriaxone and azithromycin with initial improvement of symptoms and leukocytosis. On hospital day […]
Abstract Number: M28
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 60-year-old female with a history of ulcerative colitis, hypertension and paternal history of Huntington’s disease was diagnosed with mild COVID 19 infection in September 2021. Three weeks later, she started noticing that she was clumsy, and dropping things. She then started having jerky, spasmodic, involuntary movements of her head, upper extremities, and […]