Skip to content
Abstracts Logo
  • Home
  • Meetings Archive
  • Browse By Category
  • Browse By Keyword
  • Search
  • Home
  • Meetings Archive
  • Browse By Category
  • Browse By Keyword
  • Search
  • Home
  • Meetings Archive
  • Browse By Category
  • Browse By Keyword
  • Search
  • Home
  • Meetings Archive
  • Browse By Category
  • Browse By Keyword
  • Search
Search2020-05-20T12:01:36-05:00
Search
Search by Abstract Number, Title, Keyword, or Authors
Category
Sub-Category

(Optional)

Session Type
Meeting
Search Results for fever of unknown origin
Abstract Number: 696
Not Just Another Tick-Borne Illness
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 69 year-old man presented with pleuritic chest pain for several hours.  Prior to admission he had hiked throughout the northeast United States.  Five days prior to presentation he noticed a small, non-painful, non-pruritic erythematous papule on his right ankle.  On presentation, his pulmonary exam was notable for crackles in the left lower […]
Abstract Number: 696
PERSISTENT FEVERS APPARENTLY CAUSED BY GIARDIA INFECTION WITHOUT GASTROINTESTINAL COMPLAINTS- A CASE REPORT
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 30 year old female without any past medical history presented to the Emergency Department for 10 days history of persistent fevers. The fever was as high as 104°F and was accompanied by myalgias, headaches, palpitations, and diaphoresis. The remaining review of systems was negative. Aside from fever and tachycardia, a complete physical […]
Abstract Number: 989
BRUCELLOSIS CASE REPORT: LOCAL HUNTER RETURNS WITH MORE THAN JUST HIS BOAR
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 66-year-old Caucasian man presented to his primary care physician with significant fatigue and night sweats associated with 30-pound weight loss, headaches, and dyspnea on exertion. He reported the onset of symptoms one week after returning from a hunting trip in Georgia where he caught and cleaned wild boar. After this initial outpatient […]
Abstract Number: 989
HYPERAMMONEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY IN ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS WITH AFFERENT LOOP SYNDROME
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 33-year-old female with liver fibrosis, elective gastric bypass surgery 10 years prior (Roux-en-Y, complicated by afferent loop syndrome requiring subsequent small bowel resection), untreated Hepatitis C (but persistently negative RNA titers), bipolar disorder initially presented to the hospital with a week history of rash on her thighs and forearms thought to be […]
Abstract Number: 1073
IT’S NOT A (MALIGNANT) TUMOR: REPORT OF AN UNUSUAL ETIOLOGY OF INTRA-ABDOMINAL MASS, WITH ASSOCIATED ABSCESS
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 50-year-old man with hypothyroidism and dyslipidemia presented with one week of bilateral upper abdominal pain; subjective fevers; chills; sweats; and anorexia. His abdominal pain was constant, aching, relieved with lying supine, and unaffected by eating. He denied nausea, vomiting, early satiety, weight change, or change in bowel habits or stool characteristics. He […]
Abstract Number: 1073
TB, OR NOT TB? TO TEST, PERCHANCE TO DIAGNOSE
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 69-year-old man with a history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was admitted with fevers and altered mental status (AMS). He reported 6 months of fevers, with confusion and shortness of breath. He denied cough and sputum production, but endorsed a 20lb unintentional weight loss. He had no history of immunosuppression, imprisonment, or […]
Abstract Number: 1177
A RARE CASE OF FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN IN A PEDIATRIC PATIENT: SUBCUTANEOUS PANNICULITIS-LIKE T-CELL LYMPHOMA
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A previously healthy 10 year-old girl was admitted directly to the pediatric ward with several weeks of fever of unknown origin, lower extremity edema, right groin edema, erythema and pain. She frequently traveled to Mexico and lived in a farm-type setting.She had been treated for cellulitis with at least 7 different antibiotics at […]
Abstract Number: 1180
EVEN INCOMPLETE KAWASAKI CAN COMPLETELY BREAK A HEART
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 5-month-old male presented to the hospital for further workup of 15 days of fever. In the preceding 2 weeks, he had intermittent symptoms, including cough, rhinorrhea, and diarrhea. He was treated for an ear infection with antibiotics about 5 days into the course for suspected otitis media without resolution of his fever. […]
  • This Week

  • This Month

  • All Time

  • This Week

  • A Case of Jamaican Stone
  • Bc Powder Causing Intracerebral Bleed: Pitfalls of Overlooking Dosage of Seemingly Innocuous Otc Formulations
  • Cellulitis or DVT: Do Any Clinical Features Help to Differentiate
  • An Unusual Cause of Chest Pain in a Young Post‐ Partum Woman
  • “Weight Loss or Brain Loss?”: Long Term Use of Phentermine Possibly Increases Risk for Ischemic Stroke
  • This Month

  • A Case of Jamaican Stone
  • Bc Powder Causing Intracerebral Bleed: Pitfalls of Overlooking Dosage of Seemingly Innocuous Otc Formulations
  • “Weight Loss or Brain Loss?”: Long Term Use of Phentermine Possibly Increases Risk for Ischemic Stroke
  • Cellulitis or DVT: Do Any Clinical Features Help to Differentiate
  • A Newborn with Bilateral Shoulder Dimples: Case Report and a Review of Literature
  • All Time

  • Cellulitis or DVT: Do Any Clinical Features Help to Differentiate
  • A Newborn with Bilateral Shoulder Dimples: Case Report and a Review of Literature
  • “Weight Loss or Brain Loss?”: Long Term Use of Phentermine Possibly Increases Risk for Ischemic Stroke
  • Bc Powder Causing Intracerebral Bleed: Pitfalls of Overlooking Dosage of Seemingly Innocuous Otc Formulations
  • A Case of Jamaican Stone
© Society of Hospital Medicine | All Rights Reserved
Go to Top