Meeting
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: 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 […]