Meeting
Abstract Number: 708
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old male with hereditary spherocytosis, status-post splenectomy presented to the emergency room complaining of acute onset neck pain for 2 days. This was localized on the left side of his neck and associated with odynophagia. The patient endorsed mild headache but no photophobia or fever. His vital signs were stable with a […]
Abstract Number: 727
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 62-year-old man presented with six months of progressive lower back pain. He noticed weight loss, sweats, and subjective fevers, but denied neurological symptoms or a other complaints. Patient lives in Texas, but travels to Mexico during winter. He denied tobacco abuse, intravenous drug use, incarceration or animal exposure. He reported eating unpasteurized […]
Abstract Number: 786
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 44 year-old female with a history of essential hypertension presented with one month of progressive chest pain, dyspnea and fevers. These symptoms were associated with a dry cough, sore throat and symmetric joint pains with swelling and morning stiffness of the hands and wrists. Her chest pain was left sided and knife-like, […]
Abstract Number: 787
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: We report a case of a 38-year-old African American male with history of dysphagia who presented with complaint of acute chest pain. He described it as pressure like mid-sternal chest pain, radiating to his left arm associated with palpitations, worse on exertion and diaphoresis. On presentation, he was found to have atrial fibrillation […]