Meeting
Abstract Number: 446
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 36-year-old Caucasian male, a construction worker, presented with three weeks of high-spiking daily fevers, myalgias and fatigue. He endorsed a water-skiing trip, and tick and dog bites within recent weeks. He was discharged two days prior from an outside hospital (OH), where he was treated for possible pneumonia or a tick-borne illness […]
Abstract Number: 680
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 67 year-old man with history of transient ischemic attack, coronary artery disease, and peripheral artery disease status post aorto-iliac graft in 1994 presented with intermittent fevers, chills, and intense rigors. Symptoms started following a dental procedure 6 months earlier after which he was diagnosed with streptococcus anginosus bacteremia. Continued fevers prompted trans-esophageal […]
Abstract Number: 735
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 39 year-old female from Sudan with no medical history presented with recurrent fevers. She had been discharged 3 days prior after a workup for the cause of her fevers was unfruitful. This workup had included blood and urine cultures, viral hepatitis serologies, anti-nuclear antibodies, rheumatoid factor, HIV antibodies, Quantiferon tuberculosis testing, stool culture, […]