Meeting
Abstract Number: 719
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 26 year old man without significant medical history presented on October 10, 2014 with 24 hours of severe abdominal pain. He was found to have severe pancreatitis with multiorgan failure requiring pressors for hypotension and intubation for respiratory failure. Laboratory data included a lipase of 1953, a gapped metabolic ketoacidosis acidosis […]
Abstract Number: 719
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Coccidioidomycosis is a highly variable disease endemic to the southwest with 60% of infected individuals remaining asymptomatic or suffering mild respiratory illness. Less than 1% of cases result in life-threatening dissemination with immunocompromised hosts being most at risk. We present a rare case of multifocal disseminated coccidioidomycosis (DC) in an immunocompetent young male […]