Meeting
Abstract Number: 519
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: Our patient is a 42-year-old male with history significant for hypertension, end stage renal disease (ESRD) on hemodialysis (HD), anemia of chronic disease, renal osteodystrophy, and right wrist calciphylaxis who presented with worsening right wrist erythema and bleeding. Patient had reported non-compliance with his dialysis schedule and noted to have multiple previous admissions […]
Abstract Number: 691
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 22-year-old male with no past medical history presented with a three-week history of a frontal headache associated with nausea and vomiting. He denied various symptoms, including bloody diarrhea, dysuria, or hematuria. He had no history of renal calculi, recent illness, antibiotic exposure, or drug allergies. He recently traveled to Jamaica and Florida […]
Abstract Number: 893
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: Addison’s disease, or primary adrenal insufficiency, is a rare disorder of glucocorticoid or mineralocorticoid deficiency caused by adrenal cortex dysfunction or destruction. Since the disease gradually progresses with nonspecific symptoms, patients are often misdiagnosed or diagnosed late. Consequently, patients receive delayed treatment and are at increased risk for Addisonian crisis, which continues to […]