Meeting
Abstract Number: 492
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: Bacterial osteomyelitis is very challenging to treat. This is partly due to the widespread antimicrobial resistance to gram positive bacterium Staphylococcus Aureus. We present a severe case of disseminated staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis, that includes bacteriemia, psoas abscess, infective endocarditis, osteomyelitis, septic arthritis of knee and shoulder joints. A 63-year-old woman with poorly controlled […]
Abstract Number: 631
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 30 y/o man presented to the ED with complaints of unresolved monkeypox lesions. Along with this recent diagnosis of monkeypox with TPOXX treatment failure, he has a past medical history significant for advanced HIV/AIDS with CD4< 2 at admission on Bactrim prophylaxis, resolved Campylobacter infection, and chronic normocytic anemia. A month prior, […]
Abstract Number: 668
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 33-year-old man presented to the emergency department with sudden onset, severe abdominal pain radiating toward the back. Medical history included bipolar disorder treated with bupropion, sertraline, and lamotrigine. Surgical history included prior appendectomy. There was no history of sick contacts, alcohol use, gallstones, or peptic ulcer disease. On exam he was tachycardic […]
Abstract Number: 827
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 71-year-old female with metastatic thyroid cancer status-post (s/p) radioiodine ablation and total thyroidectomy on oral chemotherapy, chronic kidney disease stage IV s/p deceased donor kidney transplant in 2019 on oral immunosuppression, presented with weakness, gastrointestinal symptoms, and acute-on-chronic dysphagia. While dysphagia work-up was ongoing, patient was noted to have right wrist swelling, […]