Meeting
Abstract Number: 445
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 61-year-old African American male with history of recent atopic dermatitis treated with topical corticosteroids presented with 4 days of fevers, night sweats and worsening exertional dyspnea. On admission, he was febrile with decreased left lower lobe breath sounds. CT showed a moderate left-sided pleural effusion and left upper lobe cavitary lesion. The differential included both infectious and malignant etiology […]
Abstract Number: 561
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 76-year-old Hispanic man with poorly-controlled diabetes mellitus complicated by nephropathy presented to a hospital with 2 weeks of nausea, vomiting, and progressive lethargy. During the initial evaluation, he developed a focal right-sided seizure advancing to a generalized tonic-clonic seizure lasting 30 seconds. He was afebrile, hypertensive, and non-tachycardic with normal saturation on […]