Meeting
Abstract Number: 923
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: An 84-year-old male veteran with prostate cancer s/p prostatectomy in 2002 with positive margins, uncontrolled type 2 diabetes, untreated hepatitis C, 50-pack-year history, presented for admission after routine labs at his primary care physician’s office revealed prominent eosinophilia of 6,900 and hyponatremia. The patient’s main complaint was generalized pruritus and a one-month pruritic […]
Abstract Number: 923
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 65 year-old female with a history of hyperlipidemia presented with odynophagia, fevers, weight loss and two months of neutropenia. A hematologist had evaluated the neutropenia with a negative outpatient workup, including ANA, HIV, peripheral blood smear and flow cytology and an unremarkable CT of the abdomen/pelvis. One month prior, she was admitted […]