Meeting
Abstract Number: 685
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 49-year-old healthy man presented to the emergency department with a two-year history of left inguinal pain that had been increasing in frequency and severity, to the point where he experienced difficulty with ambulation. He denied fevers, chills, weight loss, weakness or numbness in the extremity. Physical exam revealed a palpable left groin […]
Abstract Number: 908
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 54-year-old male patient diabetes mellitus type II presented with pain and swelling involving small joints of bilateral hands with wrists. Synovitis involving bilateral interphalangeal, metacarpo-phalangeal were noted.Labs revealed leukocytosis to 15.7K/microL. Hemoglobin was 7.7 g/dL. Anemia work up revealed low serum iron level of 23 µg/dL, low TIBC at 167ug/dL with saturation of […]