Meeting
Abstract Number: 452
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Communication between home health care agencies and referring facilities is important for comprehensive care for patients. Yet, both home health care providers and hospitalists feel that this communication is frequently lacking. Purpose: To implement weekly teleconferences to discuss patients recently discharged from the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center (RMR VAMC) who are initiating […]
Abstract Number: 565
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: We present a 70 year old Caucasian male with an established diagnosis of Darier’s disease (DD) since childhood. Our patient was recently diagnosed with Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Cystic Neoplasm of the pancreas and underwent a pancreatectomy, splenectomy with hepaticojejunostomy and Billroth II gastrojejunostomy. The stress of his recent surgery exacerbated his DD, and […]