Meeting
Abstract Number: 1086
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 56-year-old male with history of spinal epidural abscess being treated with IV daptomycin, presented to the emergency department with a fever of 104° F. The patient had a history of recurrent epidural abscesses, requiring multiple surgical washouts, following past lumbar diskectomy subsequent to lumbar radiculopathy. Previous cultures were positive for two strains […]
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 […]