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Abstract Number: 679
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 63-year-old man presents with a painful, erythematous lesion on his left thigh. He indicates that the lesion first appeared seven days ago and was followed by the onset fevers, chills, headaches, and body aches. The patient’s past medical history is notable for HIV on antiretroviral therapy with a recent CD4 count of […]
Abstract Number: 683
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 38-year-old male patient with a history of intravenous drug use was transferred from an outside hospital after initial presentation with persistent fevers, episodic flushing and swelling in right hand and forearm. Workup at the other hospital included blood cultures positive for unspeciated yeast, and a transthoracic echocardiogram with normal ejection fraction (65%) […]
Abstract Number: 690
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 61-year-old Indian man with past medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus and dyslipidemia presented with a 3-month history of intermittent dry cough associated with fevers, chills, night sweats, and generalized weakness. He worked in California as an engineer doing home remodeling, never smoked, and had no sick contact, or animal exposure. […]
Abstract Number: 694
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 63-year-old Hispanic man from Mexico, with a history of hypertension and obesity, presented in September to an outside hospital with high fevers. He worked as a truck driver primarily in Arizona. He had a witnessed seizure and developed persistent altered mental status. The patient rapidly decompensated into septic shock requiring vasopressors, and […]
Abstract Number: 734
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: We present a case of 26-year-old female presented with acute ischemic stroke. She presented with altered mental status from Rehabilitation center. She has history of sickle cell and recurrent strokes in the past. Extensive prior work up for recurrent strokes was done and she was thought to have Moyamoya disease. Before this presentation, […]
Abstract Number: 740
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 58-year-old man presented with two days of confusion, tremors and seizures. Past medical history included schizophrenia, epilepsy, HCV infection and right hemiparesis due to ischemic strokes. He initiated dasabuvir, ombitasvir, paritaprevir and ritonavir (Viekira Pak) three days earlier. His epilepsy had been well controlled on lamotrigine for years. Review of systems was […]
Abstract Number: 747
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 65 year old male with ischemic cardiomyopathy, EF of 25% and NYHA III symptoms despite optimal medical therapy, severe mitral regurgitation (MR) and left bundle branch block (LBBB) with QRS>150ms (figure 1) was referred for cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillator (CRT-D) implantation. The right atrial pacing and right ventricular defibrillator leads were successfully implanted, […]
Abstract Number: 763
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: 44 year-old Caucasian woman presented with shortness of breath and weakness. She had a history of stage IIIC malignant melanoma (BRAF Wild Type) of right face. She underwent excision of the lesion a year prior to presentation and immunotherapy with ICI (intravenous Nivolumab 240mg every 2 weeks) was initiated. After 10 cycles of […]
Abstract Number: 765
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: We present a 20 year old gentleman in acute hypoxic and hypercapnic respiratory failure and cariogenic shock secondary to hemodynamically unstable hemoptysis requiring mechanical ventilation and vasopressor support with norepinephrine and vasopressin. He had history of pulmonary atresia with intact interventricular septum at birth post right ventricular outflow repair and 1.5 ventricular repair […]
Abstract Number: 829
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 77 year old man with adenocarcinoma of the lung s/p chemotherapy and radiation presented to the Orthopedics service with hip pain & a left femoral lytic lesion.Soon after his IR-guided femur biopsy, medicine consult was called for ? cellulitis. Patient had new left 2nd toe pain, ankle pain, & knee pain, with […]