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Abstract Number: 883
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 29 year-old woman with sickle cell disease (SCD) on hydroxyurea and L-glutamine, and mild intermittent asthma presented to our institution with right lower extremity and back pain suggestive of a vaso-occlusive crisis. She did not report fever, cough or dyspnea. Vital signs revealed a heart rate of 91/min, blood pressure of 126/86 […]
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: 902
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 47-year-old female with a history of kidney transplant on immunosuppressive medications presented with worsening confusion and dysarthria for two days. She also reported headache, intermittent fever, and shortness of breath for one month before her presentation. On presentation, her temperature was 103 F, heart rate was 131 b/m, with normal blood pressure […]
Abstract Number: 903
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: SH is a 61-year-old male with history of recurrent giardia who presented to the Emergency Department for evaluation of generalized weakness and weight loss in the setting of chronic. Over the past 4 years, he has had recurrent giardia infection despite multiple antiprotozoal agents. Upon presentation, he reported 7 watery, foul-smelling, copious episodes […]
Abstract Number: 911
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 23-year-old female was admitted with thunderclap headaches of 2 days. She had a history of quadriplegia and autonomic dysreflexia from a remote cervical spinal cord injury and has been on midodrine for 2 years. She also reported blockage of the urinary catheter and experienced recurrent headaches when she attempted to flush the catheter. There […]
Abstract Number: 912
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 69 year-old man presented after experiencing fatigue and fever for two days. He complained of accompanying dyspnea with decreased exercise tolerance and new four-pillow orthopnea. He had a history of myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease status-post multi-vessel coronary artery bypass graft, heart failure with reduced ejection fraction with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator […]
Abstract Number: 936
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 49-year-old man presented to the Emergency Department with a two-day history of worsening chills. He was afebrile with HR 115 beats/minute, RR 22 breaths/minute, BP 120/93 mmhg. Pertinent findings on physical exam revealed an ill appearing male with a new facial rash and a new systolic murmur. Labs were significant for WBC […]
Abstract Number: 937
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: An 87-year-old man with medical history significant for hypertension, non-ischemic cardiomyopathy, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (anticoagulated on Rivaroxaban) and ventricular tachycardia (recently started on Amiodarone) presented to the emergency room with chest pain. He reported that the pain started insidiously 2 days prior to presentation, pleuritic, sharp, retrosternal and intermittent, associated with diaphoresis and […]
Abstract Number: 940
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 60-year-old man with a history of bilateral adrenalectomy for Cushing’s disease, who received hydrocortisone replacement (hydrocortisone 20 mg/day; 15 mg after breakfast and 5 mg in the afternoon) for 50 years, visited our emergency department with epigastric pain and palpitations. The symptoms manifested without any obvious cause when the patient was at […]
Abstract Number: 954
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 48-year-old Columbian woman presented with 5 weeks of malaise, epistaxis, and hemoptysis. Physical exam was relevant for fever, conjunctival injection, hoarseness, coarse breath sounds, tachycardia, mononeuritis, trace lower extremity edema, and no stigmata of thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). Labs were significant for a creatinine of 2.8, leukocytosis, thrombocytosis of 992×103, and microscopic hematuria. […]