Meeting
Abstract Number: 625
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 22 year old African American male, with no significant past medical history, presented to the Emergency Room with fever, chills and productive cough of 2 weeks duration. A diagnosis of left upper lobe pneumonia was made at an outpatient visit 1 week ago for which a 5 days course of oral azithromycin […]
Abstract Number: 625
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 53-year-old woman with a history of metabolic syndrome and necrotizing pancreatitis presented with new onset ascites. Her story began nine months earlier, when she developed abdominal pain. CT at that time revealed pancreatitis and cholelithiasis without biliary dilation. Lab values were notable for: lipase 55000, total bilirubin (TBIL) 5.3, AST 660, ALT […]