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Abstract Number: 662
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 73 year old male with solitary kidney due to prior renal cell carcinoma and splenic marginal zone lymphoma currently treated with chlorambucil presented to the emergency department with acute kidney injury. He complained of red “kool-aid” urine and lower extremity rash. The rash was non-blanching, erythematous, papular and present on his ankles and […]
Abstract Number: 721
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 23 year old male with history of 8 years of vaping presents with 3 days history of fever, tachypnea, diarrhea, nausea. On initial presentation he had signs of sepsis with hypoxia.Vitals: TMax – 102.7, PR – 119, BP 124/82, RR 28.Labs-WBC-14,800, N- 92%, L 1%, Hb 13.2, Platelets 276, Na 132, K – […]
Abstract Number: 773
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 56 year-old male with past medical history of chronic pancreatitis, alcoholic cirrhosis, cured hepatitis C, iron deficiency anemia and gastric arterio-venous malformations (AVM) status post cauterization presented for screening colonoscopy and esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). EGD showed several nonbleeding gastric AVM status post Argon Plasma Coagulation. The colonoscopy was unremarkable without any reported difficulty […]
Abstract Number: 815
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: We present a 65-year-old, woman who had developed pseudomonas bacteremia after a complicated femoral artery thrombosis s/p transcatheter repair of the mitral valve. The patient was discharged home on a 6-week course of IV cefepime for concerns of possible mitral valve endocarditis. Within 2 weeks of discharge, the patient had been brought back […]
Abstract Number: 848
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 29-year-old male with no significant past medical history was admitted with 10 days of persistent fevers, cough, shortness of breath that worsened with exertion, weight loss, nausea, and vomiting. The patient had no history of travel to any TB-endemic areas, was in a monogamous relationship with his wife, denied IVDU, and had […]
Abstract Number: 909
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 73-year-old male with a medical history of hypertension presented with vomiting of 5 days. Vomitus was non-bloody, non-bilious in nature and was associated with headache. The headache was sudden in onset, bifrontal, 8/10 on a numerical rating pain scale.Initial vitals were remarkable for BP of 68/54 mm Hg which improved to 94/55 […]
Abstract Number: 956
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 19 year old female with history of marijuana use presented with subacute, progressive shortness of breath. Productive cough began two weeks prior to presentation. She was diagnosed with atypical pneumonia and received azithromycin from her outpatient provider. After two days without improvement in symptoms, she presented to a nearby hospital with acutely […]
Abstract Number: 973
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 19-year-old woman with a history of polysubstance abuse and recent e-cigarette/vaping product use associated lung injury (EVALI) presented to the Emergency Room (ER) at a rural medical center with Acute Respiratory Failure and Altered Mental Status (AMS). Pt was 3 months post-partum. Past medical history included chronic migraine headaches and Grave’s disease. […]
Abstract Number: 981
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 40-year-old female with adult-onset Still’s disease (AoSD) refractory to methylprednisolone and who had been recently started on anakinra 2 months prior to hospitalization was admitted with 2 weeks of fatigue, nausea, diffuse pruritis, jaundice, and intermittent fevers and rash. Exam was notable for jaundice and salmon-colored rashes on her trunk and back. […]
Abstract Number: 991
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 22-year-old Caucasian male who presented to our Texas hospital with dyspnea. His symptoms started two days prior with fever to 103°F, vomiting, and a cough with white sputum. The patient worked as a bartender and endorsed daily tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) vaper use. Upon admission, he exhibited tachycardia (137 bpm), tachypnea (30 bpm), hypoxemia (O2 […]