Meeting
Abstract Number: 433
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 67 year old woman presented with right upper quadrant abdominal pain and was diagnosed with acute cholecystitis. She underwent elective cholecystectomy, complicated by Clostridium difficile colitis. Despite treatment with oral Vancomycin, she had persistent diarrhea and failure to thrive for a month. Repeat Clostridium difficile toxin was negative. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy showed erosive gastritis […]
Abstract Number: 482
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 29-year-old woman presented with a 4-day history of nausea, vomiting, and watery, non-bloody diarrhea. She also had fever, headache, and dark urine. She had traveled to Puerto Rico one-week prior, where she ate raw fish and vegetables and drank tap water. She also went to visit a waterfall, where she swam in […]
Abstract Number: 582
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 59 year-old male with intellectual disability presented with abdominal pain and distension following a fecal impaction. Imaging revealed diffuse gaseous colonic distension with colonic wall thickening suggestive of inflammatory colitis and colonic ileus without obstruction. His labs were notable for severe hypokalemia (1.5 mmol/L) and mild hypomagnesemia. Despite empiric antibiotic course, imaging […]