Meeting
Abstract Number: 567
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 66 year old man with a history of eosinophilic granulomastosis with polyangiitis presented with ascending numbness and unsteadiness that worsened over two days and finally manifested as paraesthesia and weakness in all extremities, gait imbalance, and diplopia. Three weeks prior to presentation, the patient had received the flu vaccine. Neurology was consulted upon […]
Abstract Number: 567
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 27‐year old man presented with severe muscle cramping in all extremities. The symptoms began following hours of yard work in hot weather. He had previously experienced two similar episodes but otherwise had no medical history. He took no medications, had no allergies and denied illicit drug use; he stated his brother sometimes […]
Abstract Number: 770
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 44-year-old man previously healthy except sleep apnea syndrome presented with low grade fever and feeling of residual urine, but he returned home because of no evidences of urinary tract infection and incontinence. On the next day, he returned to ER with abdominal bloating and admitted, because abdominal CT showed paralytic ileus without […]
Abstract Number: 770
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 6-day old male newborn was transferred to our institution for evaluation of conjugated hyperbilirubinemia. Examination was significant for jaundice and hepatomegaly. All anthropometric measurements plotted at the 3rd percentiles. He was born by spontaneous vaginal delivery at 39 weeks, birth weight of 2800 grams, to a healthy 22 year old primigravida woman […]