Meeting
Abstract Number: 635
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A previously healthy 39-year-old male with a bicuspid aortic valve and mitral valve prolapse presented with three months of intermittent bilateral retro-orbital headache, abdominal discomfort, subjective fevers, night sweats, and 10-kg weight loss. Two weeks prior to admission, he developed acute left-sided vision loss and left-sided weakness, and was diagnosed with right parietal […]
Abstract Number: 750
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 58 year old man with history of Enterococcus faecalis endocarditis and mechanical aortic valve replacement on oral anticoagulation presented to the emergency department with epigastric and right upper quadrant abdominal pain, melena, hematochezia, and hematemesis of one weeks’ duration. Physical exam revealed jaundice and abdominal tenderness in the right upper quadrant and […]