Meeting
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Community acquired severity scores are well known and used routinely in predicting mortality and risk of inpatient and ICU admission in suspected bacterial pneumonia patients. However such scores have not been studied in patients with influenza infection and influenza pneumonia. We attempted to validate one such score, CURB65 and and identify other scores that […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Community acquired severity scores are well known and used routinely in predicting mortality and risk of inpatient and ICU admission in suspected bacterial pneumonia patients. However such scores have not been studied in patients with influenza infection and influenza pneumonia. We attempted to validate one such score, CURB65 and and identify other scores that […]
Abstract Number: 486
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: Introduction: Hydralazine is an adjunctive antihypertensive medication that is associated with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) – associated vasculitis. Kidney involvement usually comprises a pauci-immune, necrotizing glomerulonephritis with crescents. We describe a rare case of hydralazine induced ANCA positive vasculitis with acute tubulointerstitial nephritis and without glomerular involvement. Case Report: A 74 year old […]