Meeting
Abstract Number: 859
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 59 year old female with a history of Hepatitis C cirrhosis, esophageal varices, type 2 diabetes mellitus, end-stage renal disease, and hypertension presented to the emergency department to be evaluated for fever at the behest of her dialysis center. She endorsed chills, diffuse abdominal pain, and dyspnea over the past week. She […]
Abstract Number: 874
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: This is a 58 year old male with a past medical history of MDD, GAD, history of polysubstance abuse, history of enterococcus bacteremia complicated by aortic valve endocarditis status post valvular replacement and hemorrhagic stroke who was admitted to the hospital for urosepsis. Of note, this patient was previously hospitalized for Lactobacillus bacteremia […]
Abstract Number: 1047
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old female presented with abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea for three weeks associated with fever, chills, nausea and multiple bouts of vomiting. On exam, she was hemodynamically stable and had left lower quadrant abdominal tenderness. Laboratory studies were significant for a left shift with a normal white blood cell count. Her chest […]
Abstract Number: 1219
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 79-year-old woman with hypertension and rheumatoid arthritis presented with generalized fatigue and decline in her functional status over 6 months. Her symptoms progressed in the month preceding admission to nausea, vomiting, right upper quadrant pain, and intolerance to solids and liquids for several days. An outpatient abdominal ultrasound revealed only hepatic steatosis. […]