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Abstract Number: 476
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A generally healthy 36 year old female began experiencing stiffness in her lower back with persistent aching pain. The discomfort progressively worsened over several weeks prompting multiple emergency room visits. She began to complain of severe leg spasm at the time of her admission to the hospital. Her CPK level was markedly elevated […]
Abstract Number: 540
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 79-year-old Caucasian non-diabetic male with history of renal cell carcinoma, s/p left nephrectomy in 2005 and coronary artery stent placement 2 months prior and on Clopidogrel, presented with acute onset sweating and palpitations. Monitoring revealed fasting serum glucose as low as 29mg/dL with concurrent insulin level of 9,600 uIU/mL. Further investigations for […]
Abstract Number: 567
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 23 year old female with no significant medical history presented to another hospital with progressive paresthesisas and lower extremity weakness for 6 weeks. Within 24 hours of admission she rapidly declined, requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation. She was sent to our facility for further management. On arrival she had flaccid, areflexic quadriparesis […]
Abstract Number: 598
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 77 year old Jehovah’s Witness woman presented with one month of petechial rash, epistaxis and oral mucosal bleeding. There was no recent travel or infectious illness. She denied herbal or toxic ingestions. Her exam was remarkable only for diffuse petechiae. Labwork was significant for new severe thrombocytopenia (2 K/UL), a normal peripheral […]
Abstract Number: 749
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 34-year-old male patient with a history of psoriatic arthritis on treatment with methotrexate was started on leflunomide. After few months, because of the persistent symptoms and lack of response to leflunamide, he was started on adalimumab, continuing him on methotrexate. A chest X-ray showed no changes suggestive of previous tuberculosis. About after […]