Meeting
Abstract Number: 511
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 56-year-old Caucasian female with history of mechanical aortic and mitral valves on chronic warfarin therapy, atrial fibrillation, and questionable history of SLE was admitted to the intensive care unit for emergent splenectomy following a motor vehicle accident. After initially being sent home from a regional hospital, she was diagnosed five days later […]
Abstract Number: 634
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: Twenty three year old female presented with complaints of severe headache and dizziness since past 2 weeks. Her past medical history was significant for SLE, heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and lupus pericarditis. CT head showed possible left cerebellar stroke of indeterminate age and hence was admitted for the stroke workup. Few […]
Abstract Number: 852
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 22 year-old female with a history of recurrent DVTs in the left lower extremity, May-Thurner syndrome with left common iliac vein stent place 12 months ago, Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia, and previous thromboembolism presented with one week history of intermittent, localized substernal chest pain. A diagnosis of antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) was established based on […]