Meeting
Abstract Number: 562
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: Case 1: A 38-year-old woman with no past medical history presented to the hospital with four days of fatigue, myalgias, and productive cough. On admission, she was febrile to 103 F, had a heart rate of 130 with ECG showing sinus tachycardia, saturating 95% on two liters of nasal cannula oxygen. Initial workup […]
Abstract Number: 621
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: An 81-year-old patient with hypertension presented to the emergency department with one week of dry cough and fatigue. He reported pleuritic chest discomfort, but denied dyspnea, fevers, chills, palpitations, or lightheadedness. His vital signs were normal. Initial workup was notable for an unremarkable chest x-ray, positive COVID-19 PCR, B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) 426 […]
Abstract Number: 795
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 65-year-old woman with antiphospholipid syndrome (APLS), and history of multiple lower extremity deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and miscarriages, on warfarin presented with syncope, fall, and head-strike. She was found to have an acute subdural hematoma (SDH) in the interhemispheric fissure and a non-occlusive DVT in the left femoral vein. Initial labs showed […]
Abstract Number: 896
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 66 year old female with a past medical history of hypertension (HTN), hyperlipidemia (HLD) and coronary artery disease (CAD) presented to the hospital for an elective three-vessel coronary artery bypass graft involving the left internal mammary artery to left anterior descending artery, saphenous vein graft (SVG) to the obtuse marginal artery, and […]