Meeting
Abstract Number: 489
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 32-year-old South Asian woman with history of IgA nephropathy complicated by end stage renal disease status post renal transplant (CMV/EBV positive), latent tuberculosis infection, C. Diff colitis, and recurrent urinary tract infections presented with two days of fevers and diarrhea. One week prior to admission she was seen at a local ED […]
Abstract Number: 831
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 69 year old woman presented to our hospital with 5 days of fever, diarrhea, abdominal pain & debilitating leg pain. Her only known medical problem was hyperlipidemia, for which she had recently increased her statin dose. 6 weeks prior to admission, she visited her hometown in Jiangxi, China. There, she drank tap […]
Abstract Number: 903
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: SH is a 61-year-old male with history of recurrent giardia who presented to the Emergency Department for evaluation of generalized weakness and weight loss in the setting of chronic. Over the past 4 years, he has had recurrent giardia infection despite multiple antiprotozoal agents. Upon presentation, he reported 7 watery, foul-smelling, copious episodes […]