Meeting
Abstract Number: 764
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 22-year-old Hispanic male presented with a 4 day history of rectal and abdominal pain. He denied any previous medical history. He also noted three months of productive cough, pyrexia, chills, night sweats, fatigue, and weight loss. Physical examination revealed right lower quadrant tenderness accompanied by abdominal rigidity and involuntary guarding. The patient declined digital rectal examination. […]
Abstract Number: 797
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 67-year-old Fijean woman presented to the emergency department with three weeks of fevers, chills, weakness, watery non-bloody diarrhea, and unintentional 15lb weight loss. She had no recent travel, sick contacts, changes in dietary habits, antibiotic use, or initiation of new medications. Physical exam was significant for epigastric tenderness and hepatomegaly. Her laboratory […]
Abstract Number: 822
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 26 year-old US born man presented with 10 days of fevers, night sweats, dyspnea and right-sided pleuritic chest pain. Four years ago, he completed a year of chemoprophylaxis with isoniazid (INH) after a Filipino roommate was diagnosed with active pulmonary tuberculosis. Two weeks before presentation, he travelled to Austin, TX and reported […]