Meeting
Abstract Number: 501
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old never-smoker female with hypothyroidism and rheumatoid arthritis on etanercept presented with intermittent hemoptysis. Three days prior, she reported coughing ~100mL of frank blood and clots (Figure 1) over the course of 24 hours, with smaller volumes over the next two days (~50 mL total). She recounted a similar episode of hemoptysis […]
Abstract Number: 501
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old never-smoker female with hypothyroidism and rheumatoid arthritis on etanercept presented with intermittent hemoptysis. Three days prior, she reported coughing ~100mL of frank blood and clots (Figure 1) over the course of 24 hours, with smaller volumes over the next two days (~50 mL total). She recounted a similar episode of hemoptysis […]
Abstract Number: 626
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 52 year old African American male with past medical history of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) on aminocaproic acid presents with epistaxis and hematochezia with a hemoglobin of 6.7 g/dL. Patient was diagnosed with HHT in his mid-30s when found to be profoundly anemic with reported hemoglobin of below 3 g/dL during incarceration. […]
Abstract Number: 626
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 30 year old Asian woman with no significant medical history presented with an acute onset of six episodes of bloody diarrhea for one day. There was associated crampy lower abdominal pain with nausea. She reported chills but denied fevers. Several hours before symptom onset, she consumed duck pancakes from a local Asian […]