Meeting
Abstract Number: 841
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 54 year-old man initially presented to an outside hospital with three days of fever, headache and productive cough thought to be upper respiratory viral illness. He received symptomatic treatment but returned with fevers, worsening cough, headache, nausea, and abdominal discomfort. Physical exam was remarkable for fever of 102.8 °F (39.3 °C), bilateral […]
Abstract Number: 841
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: WF, an 88-year-old man with advanced, wild-type transthyretin-associated (ATTR) cardiac amyloidosis (on tafamidis) complicated by distal conduction disease and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, presented with syncope and was admitted to the cardiac critical care unit for symptomatic, bradycardic atrial fibrillation. A continuous dopamine infusion was started with resolution of symptoms and […]