Meeting
Abstract Number: 872
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 50-year-old male with a past medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus presented with gangrene of his left foot. The foot was erythematous with pustular eruptions. His symptoms included fevers, chills, and the inability to move his fourth and fifth digits. He was afebrile, with a leukocytosis of 19.6, erythrocyte sedimentation rate […]
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 […]