Meeting
Abstract Number: 793
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 34-year-old man with history of injection (IV) heroin misuse, anxiety, and homelessness presents with dyspnea and pleuritic chest pain. He was recently hospitalized with Methicillin-Sensitive Staph Aureus (MSSA) tricuspid valve (TV) endocarditis complicated by acute heart failure and septic pulmonary emboli but left against medical advice. On admission he was afebrile, tachycardic […]
Abstract Number: 863
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: We present the case of a 70-year-old man who developed MSSA bacteremia after removal of a spinal stimulator. The bacteremia cleared with cefazolin treatment, but he developed an MSSA psoas abscess. He underwent abscess source reduction and was started on oxacillin, based on culture sensitivities. Unfortunately, he developed encephalopathy and was restarted on […]