Meeting
Abstract Number: 530
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: An 80 year-old female presented to the emergency room with shortness of breath and melena. She was afebrile, with blood pressure of 121/70 and heart rate 93. Labs showed hemoglobin of 5.2 g/dL with normal INR and platelet count. She underwent an upper endoscopy revealing a 2 mm clean-based duodenal ulcer. As this […]
Abstract Number: 598
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 47-year-old male veteran presented with one-month history of intermittent left-sided abdominal pain, vomiting, constipation and melena. Abdominal X-ray revealed small bowel obstruction. CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis with contrast revealed multifocal masses involving proximal to mid-small bowel with small bowel obstruction secondary to the mass at the level of jejunal and […]