Meeting
Abstract Number: 869
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Patient is a middle-aged African-American female with a history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia, for which she had been on atorvastatin for approximately four years. She originally presented to her primary care physician for evaluation of a one month history of progressive myalgias and proximal muscle weakness. Creatine phosphokinase (CPK) level was elevated to […]
Abstract Number: 869
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 24-year-old man with a history of hidradenitis suppurativa and acne developed increasing pain and malodorous drainage from his chronic nodular lesions involving his axillae, groin, face, and buttocks as well as new rapidly progressive ulcers on his legs. He was first diagnosed with hidradenitis suppurativa at age 13. His skin lesions have […]