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: 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. […]