Meeting
Abstract Number: 702
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 40 year old previously healthy female was incidentally found to have elevated transaminases on routine lab work. She was sent to our hospital for further evaluation. On admission, she complained of fatigue, right sided abdominal discomfort, and jaundice of a few weeks. She denied taking prescription medications but reported taking a supplement […]
Abstract Number: 783
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 70-year-old woman was admitted to our medical center with a 2-month history of abdominal discomfort, anorexia and fatigue. Past medical history was notable for hyperlipidemia. Five weeks prior to admission, the patient presented to her primary provider with similar complaints and was found to have significantly elevated liver enzymes, as shown in […]
Abstract Number: 927
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 64-year-old man with diet-controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidemia presented to an academic center with painless jaundice. He was in his usual state of health until 2 weeks prior to presentation when he noticed dark urine. He then developed jaundice 4 days before his presentation. Initial laboratory testing was notable for […]
Abstract Number: 1142
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 46-year-old woman with no past medical history presented with right upper quadrant pain, jaundice, and pruritus after undergoing a liver biopsy at an outside hospital. At the outside hospital, she had these same symptoms with hyperbilirubinemia and transaminitis. HIDA scan was negative. The liver biopsy showed marked portal and pan-lobular inflammatory infiltration […]