Meeting
Abstract Number: 687
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: The patient is a 56-year-old Caucasian male who presented from an outside hospital (OSH) for recurrent chylous ascites. Four years ago, he was diagnosed with unprovoked left subclavian and left internal jugular deep vein thromboses (DVTs) and had been placed on chronic warfarin therapy. At that time, he developed chylous ascites which resolved […]
Abstract Number: 687
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 36‐year‐old Caribbean male with a past medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension presented acutely to the hospital with syncope along with muscle aches, fevers to 104 degrees Fahrenheit (F) and profuse diarrhea after returning from a trip to Grenada. Two days prior he had presented to the emergency department […]
Abstract Number: 1113
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 53 year old male with history of decompensated non-alcoholic steatohepatitis cirrhosis (with ascites and esophageal varices), chronic kidney disease stage 3, type 2 diabetes mellitus, colon adenocarcinoma (TNM stage: T3N1) s/p FOLFOX (folinic acid, fluorouracil, and oxaliplatin) and right hemicolectomy 3 years ago was admitted from the liver clinic for acute kidney […]