Meeting
Abstract Number: 158
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Ceftriaxone or cefotaxime has been the drug of choice to treat spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) for many years, but little is known about microbiology, resistance rate to cephalosporines, and clinical outcomes over the last few decades. Our study aimed to describe the clinical and microbiological characteristics of culture-positive SBP at University of Kentucky Hospital. […]
Abstract Number: 209
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a commonly encountered complication of end stage liver disease that carries a high morbidity and mortality. Risk factors for SBP are defined by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) as a prior history of SBP, active gastrointestinal bleeding, and low ascites total protein (< 1.5 […]
Abstract Number: 560
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 47-year-old previously healthy male was referred from another hospital with fever, dry cough, abdominal pain and diarrhea for about one month. He also had unintentional weight loss of 33 lbs and abdominal distention over 2 months. He was originally from Nigeria and had moved to Japan 10 years ago. A physical exam […]
Abstract Number: 1029
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: We present a 68-year-old woman who was in her usual state of health until July 2019 who presented with abdominal pain, back pain along with unintentional weight loss. Imaging revealed a mass in her pancreatic body which was confirmed with EUS and biopsy as invasive pancreatic adenocarcinoma. In late August, she presented with […]