Meeting
Abstract Number: 930
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: An 88-year-old Japanese female with a history of treated breast cancer, palate squamous cell carcinoma and meningioma presented with acute on subacute worsening of left-sided facial droop, dysarthria, and dysphagia. Two weeks prior to admission, she developed these neurological symptoms followed by a brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that revealed no acute intracranial mortalities. She was […]
Abstract Number: 930
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Purulent pericarditis is rare in the post-antibiotic era. Even rarer is purulent pericarditis caused by Streptococcus Constellatus causing purulent pericarditis in an immunocompetent patient. Here we present a case of an immunocompetent patient who acquired this infection from an unknown source and deteriorated rapidly in spite of optimal medical therapy.A 68-year-old female presented […]