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Abstract Number: 596
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 76 year-old African American female with no past medical history presented with new onset shortness of breath and substernal chest pressure of three week duration. She noted that she had been previously healthy without any issues prior to this incident. On presentation, the patient was afebrile and normotensive (125/76) but tachycardic (110 […]
Abstract Number: 656
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 36 years old female with past medical history of IV drug abuse, presented with dyspnea, nasal congestion, tactile disturbances, diarrhea, body aches and generalized weakness for 1 day. She was recently treated for tricuspid valve endocarditis. A Transthoracic Echocardiogram (TTE) obtained at that time showed ejection fraction (EF) of 55-60%. On presentation, […]
Abstract Number: 738
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: The patient is a 64-year-old male, BMI 35.6 kg/m2, with a history of diabetes mellitus II, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and recent CAD after syncope, who was under going CABG. A cardiac tumor was incidentally found intraoperatively (Figure 1). The pre-operative transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) was negative for signs of tumor (Figure 2), however, when it […]
Abstract Number: 832
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 53 years old woman presented to the outside hospital with altered mental status. She was found to have acute liver failure on lab investigations and was transferred to our institution for further work up and management. Patient had significant past medical history of scoliosis, COPD, Bipolar disorder and recent motor vehicle accident […]
Abstract Number: 896
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 66-year-old female presented to the hospital with two days of acute chest pressure which occurred at rest. It was intermittent in nature but had persisted over the past two days which prompted her to present to the hospital. She had a past medical history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and heart failure with […]
Abstract Number: 897
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 47-year-old African-American man with obstructive sleep apnea presented to the emergency department after being called-back due to evidence of complete atrioventricular (AV) block on routine electrocardiogram. Patient reported a 6-month history of fatigue and exertional dyspnea. On physical examination, he was afebrile and in no acute distress. Vital signs were BP: 142/92 […]