Meeting
Abstract Number: 401
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: 77 year old man with history of renal cell cancer status post ablation a year ago presented to primary care physician with difficulty swallowing and weight loss for 3 weeks. Examination was normal. Routine labs showed thrombocytosis to 1170×10⁹ with platelet count of 300×10⁹ a month ago. He was referred to the emergency […]
Abstract Number: 666
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 66-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus presented to an outside hospital with persistent nausea and vomiting, a 45 pound weight loss, and dysphagia over a 4-week period. In addition to the new diagnosis of atrial fibrillation, esophagogastroduodenoscopy identified a lesion in the gastric cardia concerning for […]