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Abstract Number: 667
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: The prevalence of cocaine use is growing worldwide. Damaging effects of cocaine on the cardiovascular, neurologic, and pulmonary systems are well-established. In recent years, evidence has emerged for cocaine-induced damage to other organs, such as the liver and kidney. This is a case of end-organ damage from regular cocaine use. A 65-year-old man […]
Abstract Number: 673
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: Bone marrow sarcoidosis along renal involvement is extremely rare and diagnosis can be a challenge. Here we report a rare occurrence of sarcoidosis presenting as anemia and Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) without pulmonary involvement. Case Report A 27-year-old female was admitted to hospital with fatigue, abdominal pain, and generalized weakness. Past medical history was […]
Abstract Number: 673
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 29 year-old-woman was found to have proteinuria on routine labs that later progressed over the next few months to nephrotic syndrome with worsening lower extremity edema. Her work up revealed a positive (antinuclear antibody) ANA titer of 1:640. However, her anti-dsDNA and serum complement levels were normal, and she did not meet […]
Abstract Number: 678
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 76-year-old male with a history of allergic rhinitis presented to the hospital with four weeks of persistent dry cough. His cough is exacerbated by mild exertional activities and occurs at all hours. He had no nasal congestion, sore throat, hoarseness, hemoptysis, dyspnea, dysphagia, heartburn, or recent respiratory tract infection. He reported no […]
Abstract Number: 680
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 55-year-old woman with a remote history of renal transplant complicated by stage 4 chronic kidney disease (CKD) presented to the emergency room with a week history of progressive fatigue, fever, dry cough and exertional dyspnea. Outpatient medications were tacrolimus 2.5mg BID, mycophenolate mofetil 500mg BID, prednisone 5mg daily, and vitamin D 1000 […]
Abstract Number: 682
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A previously healthy 42 year-old man was admitted with acute abdominal pain. He described onset of periumbilical pain on the morning of admission, resolving after an episode of non-bloody, non-bilious emesis. Later that day, he developed a severe, sharp, constant and non-radiating left lower quadrant pain associated with emesis. He denied fevers, chills, […]
Abstract Number: 682
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 44-year-old male presented to the Emergency Department after having a witnessed seizure. There were no precipitating events and previous blood tests were normal. His blood pressure (BP) on arrival was 255/154 mmHg. Labs showed a creatinine (Cr) of 2.2 mg/dL, hemoglobin 9 g/dl, platelet 553 k/uL, low-normal haptoglobin of 31 mg/dL, and […]
Abstract Number: 688
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: 70-year-old female with ILD and bullous pemphigoid (BP) on mycophenolate mofetil and prednisone initially presented to emergency room for hematuria and chills, where she was found to have elevated creatinine of 1.25 mg/dL (baseline creatinine 0.4 mg/dL) and prescribed a course of ciprofloxacin for hemorrhagic cystitis. She was admitted three days later due […]
Abstract Number: 691
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 22-year-old male with no past medical history presented with a three-week history of a frontal headache associated with nausea and vomiting. He denied various symptoms, including bloody diarrhea, dysuria, or hematuria. He had no history of renal calculi, recent illness, antibiotic exposure, or drug allergies. He recently traveled to Jamaica and Florida […]
Abstract Number: 694
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Introduction: Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is classically associated with the triad of abdominal pain, hematuria, and a palpable mass, but its variability in clinical presentation has earned it the label of “internist’s tumor” (1,2). Liver dysfunction has been observed as a result of metastatic disease and a non-metastatic paraneoplastic syndrome called Stauffer’s syndrome […]