Meeting
Abstract Number: 1038
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 65 year-old male with a history of chronic alcoholism presented to a regional hospital with progressive fatigue and epigastric pain. The patient was diagnosed with decompensated alcoholic cirrhosis with gallstone pancreatitis, which required placement of a biliary stent and empiric antibiotics; his prolonged hospital course was complicated by aspiration pneumonia, and stent […]
Abstract Number: 1038
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Darier disease (keratosis follicularis) is a rare autosomal dominant genodermatosis due to ATP2A2 gene mutation. Presentation includes a characteristic eruption in seborrheic regions exacerbated by sun exposure, heat, and secondary infection. The disease runs a remittent course beginning in puberty. Darier disease is associated with neuropsychiatric disorders including intellectual disability, seizures, mood disorders […]