Meeting
Abstract Number: 1201
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 3-year-old female presented with 1-day of fatigue, pallor, dyspnea and dry cough. Vital signs showed HR 152, RR 28, temp 98.8 F, BP 101/67, and oxygen saturation of 75% on room air. On exam, she was well appearing, with clear lungs and no respiratory distress despite the desaturations. Initial testing showed a […]
Abstract Number: 1251
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Goodpasture’s disease is an autoimmune condition characterized by pulmonary hemorrhage, glomerulonephritis and production of anti-GBM (glomerular basement membrane) antibodies. Anti-GBM disease approximately accounts for 15 percent of all cases of crescentic glomerulonephritis. We report a young female patient diagnosed with Goodpasture’s disease who initially presented with recurrent pneumonias.A 19 year old female patient […]