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Search Results for Gastrointestinal Bleed
Abstract Number: 450
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: The “weekend effect” is a term to define worse outcomes among patients that present to the hospital on weekends. For upper gastrointestinal bleed (UGIB) some of these outcomes include increased mortality and increased length of stay (LOS). A 2018 meta-analysis suggests that mortality is higher for non-variceal bleed than for variceal bleed for weekend […]
Abstract Number: 597
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 76 year-old male with a history of diverticulitis, T2DM, HTN, persistent atrial fibrillation and compensated alcoholic cirrhosis presented for recurrent gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB). He initially presented to an outside hospital six months prior for shortness of breath and found to be anemic requiring 4 units of packed red blood cells (PRBCs). Since […]
Abstract Number: 735
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 55 year-old woman with past history of antiphospholipid syndrome complicated by multiple deep vein thromboses and miscarriages, prior hemorrhagic stroke, chronic slow GI bleed with iron deficiency anemia, thrombocytopenia, and CKD stage 3 presents to the ED with two-month history of progressively worsening shortness of breath and chest discomfort with exertion, which […]
Abstract Number: 826
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 39-year-old Bulgarian man, recently diagnosed with non ischemic cardiomyopathy was transferred to our hospital due to upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The patient reports seven months of intermittent hematemesis that worsened after two significant episodes of vomiting bright red blood. The patient became hemodynamically unstable in spite of aggressive fluid resuscitation and blood transfusion, […]