Meeting
Abstract Number: 785
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 59 year old man presented to the ER with shortness of breath, non-productive cough and fever of 103○F. He was also being followed for an enlarging left tricep mass that has grown significantly in size for the past 2 months, currently at 11cm in diameter. CBC now revealed a WBC count of […]
Abstract Number: 879
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: An 89 year-old male developed coagulase negative Staphylococcus bacteremia and infective endocarditis of mitral valve after urinary procedure for which he was started on Daptomycin for 6 weeks. At week 4, he developed fever and exertional shortness of breath without other respiratory symptoms. He was a non-smoker with no history of COPD or […]