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Abstract Number: 618
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 58‐year‐old Hispanic male with stage III diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma (DLBCL), status post 8 cycles of R‐CHOP (rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisolone), presented with 2 days of double vision and difficulty looking to the right. One day prior to the onset of symptoms, he hit himself above the right eye with […]
Abstract Number: 618
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 63-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis, hypertension, and venous insufficiency was admitted with shock and diffuse rash. Two months earlier, she had a confluent, erythematous, pruritic, painful, bilateral foot rash that spread from the dorsi to the ankles with associated swelling. Clotrimazole resulted in mild improvement. Two weeks prior to admission, she developed […]
Abstract Number: 877
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 38-year-old woman with well-controlled Crohn’s disease on immunosuppression presented to the emergency department with a three- day history of rash and fevers following antimicrobial treatment at an outside urgent care facility for presumed bacterial sinusitis. At the urgent care facility, she had received intramuscular ceftriaxone, oral azithromycin, and oral prednisone. The following […]
Abstract Number: 877
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 65 year old man presented with a one day history of pruritic red rash that started on the feet and then progressed to his trunk and upper extremities. He denied fever, joint, urinary and gastrointestinal complaints. Examination of the skin revealed a petechial and occasionally palpable purpuric rash in the distribution of […]
Abstract Number: 934
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: The patient is a 30 year American Born, Middle Eastern male with PMH Acute Generalized Exanthematous Pustulsosis (AGEP) that comes into hospital with high fevers and diffuse pruritic rash. In January of 2019, the patient, while being treated for pharyngitis, developed a pruritic, pustular rash, after treatment with amoxicillin/clavulanic acid. He was diagnosed […]
Abstract Number: 934
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 32-year-old male Mexican immigrant with no past medical history presented to the emergency department with sudden onset altered mentation. Four days prior to presentation, he had developed a headache, which had developed into confusion. On the morning of presentation, he became non-verbal and unresponsive, and his wife drove him to the emergency […]