Meeting
Abstract Number: 947
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old male with history of alcoholic cirrhosis (MELD 18 on admission) presented from an outside hospital with decompensation of his cirrhosis and a worsening acute kidney injury (AKI) likely from either hepatorenal syndrome or overdiuresis (FeUrea = 27.2%). His diuretics were initially held on admission to our hospital, and he received a […]
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 […]