Meeting
Abstract Number: 537
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 43-year-old male from Guatemala with a history of alcohol abuse, brief incarceration and nephrolithiasis presented to the emergency room with abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea. He was found to have a psoas abscess and subsequently underwent radiologic aspiration and drainage of the lesion. Given the unusual intraosseous features on imaging, the patient […]
Abstract Number: 567
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 57-year-old Honduran male with no past medical history presented with two weeks of recurrent fevers, dyspnea, bilateral blurred vision, and pain in his low back, flank, and abdomen. Chest X-ray revealed a round opacity over the right lower lung. CT chest, abdomen, and pelvis showed patchy consolidation in the right lower lobe […]
Abstract Number: 614
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: 47 year old male with left temporal meningioma s/p resection, and recent immigration from India presented with fevers and worsening encephalopathy. CTH was unremarkable however MRI showed leptomeningeal hemispheric, brain stem, and cord signal with perivascular enhancement concerning for CNS TB however included a broad differential. He was started on empiric antibiotics for […]