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Abstract Number: 152
DECREASED INTRACELLULAR OSTEOPONTIN IN PULMONARY ARTERIAL ENDOTHELIAL CELLS IS A POTENTIAL DRIVER OF PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressively debilitating disorder characterized by sustained increases in pulmonary vascular resistance and pulmonary arterial pressure, which eventually leads to right-sided heart failure. Current therapies for PAH work predominately as vasodilators to target symptoms, rather than focusing on the initial signals that promote disease progression. These therapies have proved […]
Abstract Number: 152
Who Gets the Next Admission? An Innovation to Create a Systematic Process for Team Assignment While Improving Patient Handoffs
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: With recent duty‐hour restrictions for internal medicine residencies, hospitals are increasingly hiring hospitalists to meet the demand of higher patient volumes not on the teaching services. This creates an interesting dilemma about how newly admitted patients will be distributed between the nonresident hospitalist services and the resident teams. Both services often have unique rules […]
Abstract Number: 558
A Rare Case of Necrotizing Fasciitis and Pyomyositis Caused by Fusobacterium Necrophorum Below the Diaphragm
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 55 year old Caucasian male patient with medical history of hypertension, osteoarthritis and smoking presented with dizziness, oliguria and right gluteal pain for 5 days following a blunt injury that occurred when he fell on wet grass while mowing his yard. His symptoms persisted despite a course of ciprofloxacin as an outpatient. […]
Abstract Number: 558
RECURRENT HYPERAMMONEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY FOLLOWING GASTRIC BYPASS SURGERY
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 44 year old woman with a history of Roux-En-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), hypothyroidism, and morbid obesity, presented with one day of confusion and somnolence. In the emergency department, she was unresponsive to voice with an initial Glasgow Coma Score of 9. Her temperature was 94 F, pulse 94 beats per minute, blood […]
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