Meeting
Abstract Number: 461
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: Ms. S is a 64 year old woman recently diagnosed with multiple myeloma following a hip fracture and repair, who was transferred from an outside hospital for hematochezia. She was admitted to the outside hospital from a skilled nursing facility for presumed post-operative ileus complicated by nausea and vomiting. During that stay, she […]
Abstract Number: 611
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 70 year old woman with no personal or family history of bleeding diathesis presented to emergency room with month long history of intermittent epistaxis. Her initial laboratory investigation showed severe macrocytic anemia and new onset renal failure. A presumptive diagnosis of uremic platelet dysfunction was made and the patient treated with anterior […]
Abstract Number: 633
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 37-year old G2P2002 female with recent vaginal delivery one month prior, presented with progressively worsening intermittent head, neck and back pain localized to the right side for the past two months. She reported tongue deviation and slurred speech. After the delivery, she began breastfeeding and noticed a lump on her right breast […]