Meeting
Abstract Number: 654
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 30 year-old female with AIDS presented with three weeks of headache, dry cough, odynophagia, vomiting, fatigue and weight loss. She had a history of cryptococcal meningitis requiring lumbo-peritoneal drain four years prior but was lost to follow up, with non-adherence to maintenance and antiretroviral therapy. She had normal vital signs and appeared […]
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 […]
Abstract Number: 947
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 32 years of male with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) on immunosuppression presented with complaints of fever, abdominal pain and diarrhea. His stool had many WBCs, C. diff was negative and CT of the abdomen revealed enterocolitis. His anaerobic blood culture bottles grew Salmonella group from the nonTyphi subtypes. Further history disclosed that he […]
Abstract Number: 1185
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: An otherwise healthy 9-year-old, fully vaccinated, male initially presented to urgent care with acute onset of sore throat, fever, trouble swallowing, and mild intermittent dyspnea. Due to worsening respiratory distress the patient was brought to an emergency department where he was found to have hoarse voice, trismus and in sniffing position. Laboratory testing […]