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Search Results for Hemorrhage
Abstract Number: 559
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 43 year-old-woman with no known medical history presented with two months intermittent fever, cough, pleurisy, hematuria, and weight loss. On exam she had diffuse crackles and lower extremity edema. The patient was intubated for respiratory distress. Laboratory workup revealed acute anemia and urinalysis consistent with nephritic syndrome. Chest x-ray showed bilateral diffuse […]
Abstract Number: 572
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: Our patient is a 77-year-old female with no past medical history who presented with two weeks of dyspnea on exertion, scant hemoptysis, and rhinorrhea with occasional blood. Vitals showed tachycardia, tachypnea, and hypoxia with saturations 95% on 15 L/min via heated high flow nasal cannula. Exam revealed accessory muscle use, faint bibasilar rales, […]
Abstract Number: 576
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 27-year old African American male presented with 3 months of bilateral inguinal lymph node enlargement, fevers, night sweats, fatigue, and weight loss. Patient presented for outpatient nodal biopsy and subsequently sent to the ED with severe thrombocytopenia with platelets less than 10,000 and complaints of gum bleeding and petechiae of 3 days. […]
Abstract Number: 624
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 62-year-old woman presented with a three week history of worsening shortness of breath. She endorsed a dry non-productive cough of several days without fever, chills, or other symptoms. Review of systems was negative for hemoptysis. Past medical history includes HFpEF, hypertension, and chronic atrial fibrillation on apixiban. On presentation, her temperature was […]
Abstract Number: 713
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: 28-year-old male with past medical history of recent nephrolithiasis presented with lower back pain, hematuria and upper extremity ecchymosis of 1 week duration. He denied any history of bleeding disorders, ingesting any anticoagulants, recent infections or drug usage. Upon work up, patient was found to have an INR (International Normalized Ratio) of > […]
Abstract Number: 770
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 36 year old man with a history of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) of unclear etiology was admitted with a three-week history of progressively worsening fatigue, weakness and lightheadedness. Further questioning revealed a 12 month history of hemoptysis which he described as productive of about a half-dollar amount of blood every morning. He […]
Abstract Number: 835
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 21-year-old man presented with two weeks of progressive dyspnea. He denied chest pain, lower extremity edema, orthopnea, melena, hematochezia, hemoptysis, cough, or fever. He had a previous presentation with similar symptoms of unknown etiology a few weeks before treated with steroids, blood transfusions, and antibiotics with improvement in symptoms. He was on […]
Abstract Number: 857
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 57 year-old Japanese female with no significant past medical history presented with fever, productive cough and swelling of right ankle for seven days. She lived with her grandchild and her son. Her grandchild had fever and rash three weeks ago, diagnosed with hand foot and mouth disease. Her son had elevated hepatic […]
Abstract Number: 874
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: 51yoM with no significant medical history presents to ED for evaluation of progressive bilaterally injected, painful conjunctiva of 1 months duration, nonproductive cough and pleuritic chest pain of 1 week’s duration. He was recently treated with moxifloxacin for conjunctivitis without improvement in symptoms. After treatment, he developed nonproductive cough associated with pleurisy and […]