Meeting
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: 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, […]