Meeting
Abstract Number: 359
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 45-year-old male with a past medical history of Myelodysplastic Syndrome, Atrial Fibrillation, and Type 2 Diabetes presented for evaluation of worsening diffuse, erythematous, and painful rash all over his body. The rash initially began 2 months ago and was biopsied at an outside hospital. The biopsy was read as a “dermal hypersensitivity […]
Abstract Number: 403
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 62-year-old man with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and melanoma presented to our tertiary care hospital from an outside institution with 3-4 weeks of rapidly progressive skin nodules, a 10 pound weight loss, and diffuse joint aches. The nodules were of varying sizes, first appearing along his clavicle and progressively spreading throughout […]
Abstract Number: 529
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 56-year-old female with a prior history of acute myeloid leukemia, status-post allogenic stem cell transplant in 2016 (in remission), complicated by chronic graft versus host disease (on mycophenolate), and pulmonary coccidioidomycosis in 2000 presented due to hemoptysis. She experienced 7 days of blood-tinged sputum with upper respiratory symptoms preceding that. Five weeks […]
Abstract Number: B27
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: We describe a case of TTP that developed subsequent to diagnosis and empiric treatment of AML. The patient was a 71 year old male with a past medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and stage III CKD who presented with a three-week history of fatigue, fevers, chills, and dyspnea. He was found to have […]
Abstract Number: 1049
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 58-year-old male presented to the hospital with several days of fatigue and shortness of breath. His vitals were initially stable, and labs showed a hemoglobin of 4.2 (normal 13.5—17.5), white blood cell count WBC 20.1 (4.5—11.0), and platelet count 43 (160—420), BNP 617 (0—900 pg/ml). He received one unit of packed red […]