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Abstract Number: 584
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 47- year-old man with a history of hypothyroidism presented to the emergency room (ER) for the evaluation of generalized body weakness and jaundice of a week duration. There was also associated intense generalized pruritus of about 6 months; subjective weight loss, recurrent fevers, nausea and vomiting. Physical examination was significant for an […]
Abstract Number: 589
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 37-year-old Caucasian male with a history of uncontrolled diabetes and tobacco abuse presented with right flank pain, hematuria, and pyuria. He had several days of fever with temperature of 38.8 upon initial evaluation and white blood cell count was 19.2. His urinalysis had more than 100 white blood cells, more than 100 […]
Abstract Number: 595
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 20 year old man with history of Systemic Lupus erythematous (SLE) with Lupus nephritis presented to the hospital with cough and hemoptysis for the past few days. He was found to have severe anemia (5.4 mg/dl), thrombocytopenia (52,000/mm3), elevated LDH (829), low haptoglobin (<8), hypocomplentemia (low C3 and C4), schistocytes on peripheral […]
Abstract Number: 600
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 43-year-old female patient with no medical history presented with multiple abdominal wall abscesses. She attended a cosmetic spa four months prior where she received weight loss injections known as “carboxy therapy” to her abdomen. Subsequently, she developed enlarging painful red lesions of varying sizes at the injection sites. She underwent incision and […]
Abstract Number: 611
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: We describe a typical presentation of meningococcus meningitis, diagnosed by blood culture. A Congolese man who had recently arrived in New Mexico after living in a Tanzanian refugee camp presented with a 2-day history of worsening diffuse headache, productive cough, non-bloody diarrhea, and persistent fevers. He had not had any sick contacts. He […]
Abstract Number: 632
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 53-year-old gentleman with metastatic adrenocortical carcinoma with liver and lung metastases, was recently started on pazopanib, a non-specific tyrosine kinase inhibitor. He was brought to the hospital by family for increasing confusion and decreased oral intake. He was hemodynamically stable and afebrile on presentation. Initial labs were significant for low platelet count […]
Abstract Number: 657
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: Young female with history of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, not on any medications,
Abstract Number: 665
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 63-year-old male with a past medical history of end-stage renal disease status post living-related kidney transplant three years ago presented with dyspnea and joint pain. His immunosuppressive regimen included mycophenolate mofetil, prednisone, and belatacept, which was switched to everolimus due to concern for synovitis at outpatient rheumatology one month prior when he […]
Abstract Number: 683
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: Atypical (complement-mediated) Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome is a rare but life threatening thrombotic microangiopathy that affects patients of all ages. About 33-40% of patients sustain end-stage renal disease, stroke, myocardial infarction or have mortality during the first presentation of this syndrome. We present a case of a 32-year-old previously healthy male who presented to the […]
Abstract Number: 694
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 63-year-old Hispanic man from Mexico, with a history of hypertension and obesity, presented in September to an outside hospital with high fevers. He worked as a truck driver primarily in Arizona. He had a witnessed seizure and developed persistent altered mental status. The patient rapidly decompensated into septic shock requiring vasopressors, and […]