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Abstract Number: 848
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 29-year-old male with no significant past medical history was admitted with 10 days of persistent fevers, cough, shortness of breath that worsened with exertion, weight loss, nausea, and vomiting. The patient had no history of travel to any TB-endemic areas, was in a monogamous relationship with his wife, denied IVDU, and had […]
Abstract Number: 876
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 24 year-old man with past medical history significant for tobacco, marijuana, and e-cigarette use presented to the emergency department for hemoptysis, dyspnea, cough with pleuritic chest pain, and subjective fevers. Twenty-four hours prior to presentation, the patient endorsed first-time use of a street-purchased e-cigarette cartridge containing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). The patient had acute […]
Abstract Number: 889
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 52-year-old male with medical history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia presented to ER for right upper extremity swelling for 3 days. He reported a feeling of heaviness in his right arm and associated pain with movement. He denied any trauma, history of blood clots, or cancer and endorsed a family history […]
Abstract Number: 956
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 19 year old female with history of marijuana use presented with subacute, progressive shortness of breath. Productive cough began two weeks prior to presentation. She was diagnosed with atypical pneumonia and received azithromycin from her outpatient provider. After two days without improvement in symptoms, she presented to a nearby hospital with acutely […]
Abstract Number: 973
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 19-year-old woman with a history of polysubstance abuse and recent e-cigarette/vaping product use associated lung injury (EVALI) presented to the Emergency Room (ER) at a rural medical center with Acute Respiratory Failure and Altered Mental Status (AMS). Pt was 3 months post-partum. Past medical history included chronic migraine headaches and Grave’s disease. […]
Abstract Number: 991
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 22-year-old Caucasian male who presented to our Texas hospital with dyspnea. His symptoms started two days prior with fever to 103°F, vomiting, and a cough with white sputum. The patient worked as a bartender and endorsed daily tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) vaper use. Upon admission, he exhibited tachycardia (137 bpm), tachypnea (30 bpm), hypoxemia (O2 […]
Abstract Number: 1045
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Case I:A 45-year-old male with a past medical history of vaping marijuana and nicotine presented with a four-day history of progressive dyspnea associated with cough, fevers, fatigue, weight loss, and diarrhea. He was found to be hypoxic to 72% oxygen saturation with a new 15-liter (L) oxygen requirement and febrile to 38.5 Celsius. […]
Abstract Number: 1134
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 30-year-old man presented for evaluation of multiple episodes of recurrent non-bloody, watery diarrhea and abdominal complaints. Initially seen in clinic, he was well appearing, with normal lab work (CBC, BMP, TSH, TTG IgA, CRP), but given the subacute timeframe of his diarrhea (2-3 weeks) he was referred to a gastroenterologist. Further testing […]