Meeting
Abstract Number: 377
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 36-year-old female with a history of morbid obesity and hypertension presented with three weeks of progressive dyspnea and productive cough. She was previously diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia and completed two five-day courses of azithromycin, without improvement in her symptoms. She denied smoking but reported increased smoke inhalation due to local forest fires. […]
Abstract Number: 514
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 34 year old male with a history of CVID subclass 2 and 4, with low IgG level, absent IgA, liver nodular regenerative hyperplasia with portal hypertension, and immune thrombocytopenic purpura status post splenectomy presented with a month of nonproductive cough, mild episodes of hemoptysis, and shortness of breath. Physical exam revealed peripheral […]
Abstract Number: 556
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 44 year-old Hispanic female with a past medical history of hypothyroidism presented from her endocrinologist with a diffuse, maculopapular rash, including the face, hands, wrists, torso, arms and legs. The rash had been intermittent for the past six years, painful, pruritic, and exacerbated by sunlight. She also complained of joint pain and […]