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Abstract Number: 406
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 9 year old male with history of astrocytoma presented to the ED with a diffuse erythematous rash for 4 days and fever for 2 days. The rash was reportedly pruritic, began on his trunk, and then progressed to his extremities. It was associated with facial edema with periorbital prominence. Of note, temozolamide […]
Abstract Number: 528
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 24 year-old woman with history of breast cancer status post mastectomy and adjuvant chemoradiation therapy presented with one week of fevers and cervical lymph node enlargement. On presentation, she was febrile with a temperature of 38.7⁰C. Physical exam was notable for tender, firm, bilateral posterior cervical chain lymphadenopathy up to 1cm. WBC […]
Abstract Number: 589
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 19 year old female presented to the student clinic with fevers up to 103 degrees F recurring daily over a period of weeks. She endorsed diffuse body aches and nausea/vomiting. Two years prior, she was diagnosed with Kikuchi disease, a benign self-limited lymphadenitis, following a lymph node biopsy in Bangladesh. Symptoms at […]
Abstract Number: 688
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: 38 year old male with history of rheumatoid arthritis presented to the emergency department with six months of episodic fever up to three times a week. Associated symptoms included occasional nonproductive cough and intermittent diffuse abdominal pain without any report of nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea. He denied any other localizing symptoms including dysuria […]
Abstract Number: 692
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 43-year-old previously healthy Nigerian male presented to the ED with fevers for three weeks. He denied any chronic medical conditions, prior surgeries, or travel in the past year. He had initially presented to the ED two weeks prior complaining of fevers. Influenza testing was negative at the time, and he was discharged. […]
Abstract Number: 719
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 69 year-old man with history of high-grade invasive urothelial bladder cancer post tumor resection on Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) treatment and renal cell carcinoma post left partial nephrectomy presented with high-grade fever, night sweats, rigors, and lower abdominal pain for 2 weeks. The last BCG instillation, of 11 total, was 17 days prior […]
Abstract Number: 753
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: Case 1: A 25-year-old female was transferred to our hospital with fever and systemic inflammation refractory to prednisolone treatment. Two weeks prior to the transfer, she was admitted to another hospital on account of fever, thrombocytopenia, elevated alkaline phosphatase level and hepatonephromegaly on CT scan. No peripheral edema, pleural effusion, ascites or lymphadenopathy […]
Abstract Number: 809
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: An 87-year-old female with a history of bilateral knee osteoarthritis presented to the emergency room with complaints of intermittent fever ongoing at home for two weeks. She recently had a Lipogems injection procedure done to her right knee. She denied any history of recent travel, tick bites or sick contacts. Physical exam was […]
Abstract Number: 859
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: An 84-year-old man with stage II non-small cell lung adenocarcinoma had tumor recurrence in the lungs after lobectomy. For first line systemic therapy he was started on pembrolizumab, a monoclonal antibody immune checkpoint inhibitor. Five days after his initial dose, he presented with daily fevers to 39C, progressive weakness, and confusion. He was […]
Abstract Number: 885
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 50-year-old woman presented with fever two month after returning from Mexico. Three weeks before the hospital admission, a gradual onset of fever occurred, which became increasingly worse and then continuous. She presented to our hospital with a fever of unknown origin after two prior clinics were unable to determine the cause. Of […]