Meeting
Abstract Number: 939
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: This case involves a 53-year-old female with a past medical history of sigmoid colon cancer treated by resection and Capecitabine, type 2 diabetes with macro/microvascular complications, and obesity class II who presented to the emergency department with a rapidly worsening and blistering painful right leg ulceration. Associated symptoms included subjective fevers and chills. […]
Abstract Number: 939
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 21-year-old male patient was referred for muscle biopsy after experiencing severe rhabdomyolysis following exercise. He underwent this outpatient procedure uneventfully, but post-procedure, experienced four episodes of syncope and pre-syncope.Patient was orthostatic, and improved some with fluids. Baseline pre-operative electrocardiogram (EKG) showed sinus rhythm with no evidence of PR prolongation, ventricular pre-excitation, interventricular conduction […]