Meeting
Abstract Number: 326
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 29 year old male with HIV/AIDS only intermittently taking antiretroviral therapy (ART), Pneumocystis jirovecii (PJP) pneumonia actively being treated with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) and prednisone, and cutaneous Kaposi sarcoma all diagnosed one month ago at an outside clinic presented to the hospital with worsening cough and shortness of breath. Initial vitals were notable […]
Abstract Number: 501
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 70-year-old gentleman with past medical history significant for chronic hypoxic and hypercapneic respiratory failure from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (FEV1 of 0.76 liters, 22% of predicted), hyperlipidemia, and hypertension presented with worsening exertional shortness of breath of four days duration. He also had dry cough. He denied fever, chills, chest pain, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea or […]