Meeting
Abstract Number: 501
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old never-smoker female with hypothyroidism and rheumatoid arthritis on etanercept presented with intermittent hemoptysis. Three days prior, she reported coughing ~100mL of frank blood and clots (Figure 1) over the course of 24 hours, with smaller volumes over the next two days (~50 mL total). She recounted a similar episode of hemoptysis […]
Abstract Number: 584
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 64-year-old female presented to the hospital with 2 days of nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. She had no recent sick contacts, travel history, or antibiotic use. Her medical history was notable for Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) complicated by epistaxis refractory to medical and surgical interventions, bleeding gastric ulcers, pulmonary hypertension, and hepatic arteriovenous […]
Abstract Number: 885
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 56 year-old female teacher presents with 1-week history of shortness of breath. She noted progressive shortness of breath on minimal exertion over the past week. She denied associated pedal edema, orthopnea, epistaxis or chest pain. She noted associated cough with white frothy sputum and subjective chills. She denied rashes, exposure to sick […]