Meeting
Abstract Number: 524
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 39 year-old woman presented to our hospital in late August with non-neutropenic fever and a diffuse maculopapular rash involving her palms and soles. Past medical history was significant for HER2 positive, locally advanced inflammatory carcinoma of the breast. The patient had received neoadjuvant chemotherapy with adriamycin, cyclophosphamide, paclitaxel, pertuzumab, and trastuzumab two [...]
Abstract Number: 590
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 41-year-old gentleman with history of spinal trauma status post several spinal surgeries and chronic arachnoiditis presented to the emergency department reporting vertigo, generalized weakness, headache, and fever developing over the past two days. On exam he was alert and oriented, with irregularly irregular tachycardia, tachypnea, and a temperature of 39.2°C. Additionally and [...]