Meeting
Abstract Number: 517
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 74-year-old female, with no significant past medical or travel history, developed sepsis 2 days after undergoing debulking surgery for stage IIIc ovarian carcinoma. Blood cultures were positive for gram-negative bacilli and the organisms identified as Enterobacter spp. with blaIMP MBL (Verigene). Antimicrobial susceptibility testing demonstrated high-level resistance to all penicillins, ureidopenicillins, cephalosporins, […]
Abstract Number: 517
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 71 year‐old man was transferred from a community hospital with 6 days of profuse diarrhea, chills, fatigue, and confusion. Exam noted fever, altered mental status, crackles at the lung bases, and pitting dependent edema. He had acute kidney injury (BUN 59 mg/dL; Cr 2.61 mg/dL), transaminitis (AST 297 U/L; ALT 81 U/L), […]