Meeting
Abstract Number: 662
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: KW is a 64 year old female with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and hypertension who presented with progressive dyspnea in the setting of cardiac tamponade, but with persistent hypoxic respiratory failure despite pericardiocentesis. One week after initial presentation, a test returned positive for p-ANCA with anti-myeloperoxidase (anti-MPO) by immunofluorescence and ELISA. Lupus anticoagulant […]