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Abstract Number: 534
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 92-year-old women with a medical history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and surgical resection of colon and renal cancer presented to the emergency department with high-grade fever and purulent sputum. She visited her primary care physician with the complaint of fever 5 days prior to visiting our hospital and was prescribed antibiotics […]
Abstract Number: 538
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 70-year-old woman with a past medical history of CKD stage IV, nephrolithiasis, Crohn’s disease presented to the Emergency department for two weeks of nausea, anorexia, dehydration, fever, chills, lightheadedness with right upper quadrant pain. Upon admission the patient was in shock, differentials included septic vs cardiogenic. BNP was 354 pg/mL and troponin […]
Abstract Number: 584
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 24-year-old man without significant past medical history presented to the hospital by EMS after a syncopal event at the gym while running on a treadmill. On admission, a routine syncope work-up was negative, including a normal basic metabolic panel, electrocardiogram, and telemetry monitoring. Given the patient’s unclear initial evaluation and concern for […]
Abstract Number: 635
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A previously healthy 39-year-old male with a bicuspid aortic valve and mitral valve prolapse presented with three months of intermittent bilateral retro-orbital headache, abdominal discomfort, subjective fevers, night sweats, and 10-kg weight loss. Two weeks prior to admission, he developed acute left-sided vision loss and left-sided weakness, and was diagnosed with right parietal […]
Abstract Number: 651
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 58-year-old male with a history of alcohol use disorder, recurrent and chronic pancreatitis and a recently identified 2.7cm pancreatic head pseudocyst on a prior admission, presented with abdominal pain and melena. CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis with contrast demonstrated extravasation of contrast into the duodenal lumen. A CT GI bleed […]
Abstract Number: 657
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: Case presentation:A 56 year-old caucasian man with no significant past medical history presented to our center with acute left upper quadrant abdominal pain. CT angiography of the thorax was performed to rule-out pulmonary embolism which showed thickening and enhancement of the splenic and hepatic arteries without aneurysmal dilatation. To evaluate this further, a […]
Abstract Number: 674
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 45 year-old gentleman with a history of recurrent alcoholic pancreatitis complicated by pancreatic pseudocyst presented to the hospital after three episodes of hematochezia. Ten days prior, he had undergone endoscopic transgastric metal stent placement between his pseudocyst and stomach, followed 6 days later by pseudocyst drainage with necrosectomy. After 3 days, he […]
Abstract Number: 678
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 57-year-old African American woman with a past medical history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and pulmonary sarcoidosis underwent an MRI of the brain for evaluation of headaches. An incidental finding of a four-millimeter right-sided bilobed anterior communicating artery (AcoA) aneurysm was noted. The patient was then referred to Neurosurgery for elective […]
Abstract Number: 688
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 41-year-old woman with no significant medical history and eight weeks postpartum presented to the hospital with new left-sided facial numbness, right labial droop and intermittent numbness of the left arm one day prior to admission. She also had a near-syncopal episode and noticed her speech declined with drooling and facial asymmetry. Admission […]
Abstract Number: 701
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: The patient is a 29 year old woman with a history of intravenous drug abuse, admitted six weeks postpartum for MSSA bacteremia and tricuspid valve endocarditis (4 x 2.5 cm vegetation) complicated by bilateral pulmonary septic emboli with loculated empyema. She was started on nafcillin, which complicated the course with acute interstitial nephritis […]