Meeting
Abstract Number: 623
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 19-year-old female with mild persistent asthma, borderline personality disorder, and substance abuse presented with three days of a non-productive cough and dyspnea. She endorsed generalized malaise and body aches, without fever or chills. In the emergency department she was tachypneic and hypoxic to 87% on room air. A chest X-ray showed a […]
Abstract Number: 707
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: 26 year old woman with past medical history of asthma and eczema presented with positional chest pain for 6 days, that was associated with worsening spasm-like pains in her extremities and back for 3 weeks. She denied fever, arthralgia or rash. She reported use of a dietary supplement containing L-tryptophan for weight reduction during the […]