Meeting
Abstract Number: 1083
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Dejerine-Roussy syndrome is a rare condition usually caused by ischemic or hemorrhagic strokes involving the thalamus. Patients develop dysesthesia or allodynia, weeks to months after the initial stroke. We present a case of central thalamic pain in a patient who presented with a middle cerebral artery (MCA) infarct with thalamic involvement. A 77 […]
Abstract Number: 1083
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 53-year-old Sierra Leonean man with schistosomiasis presented with two months of jaundice and abdominal distension. Two years earlier, he was diagnosed with schistosomiasis complicated by non-cirrhotic portal hypertension, splenomegaly, and esophageal and gastric varices. Initially on this presentation, this patient was septic due to MDRO E.Coli bacteremia secondary to spontaneous bacterial peritonitis […]