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Search Results for Autoimmune Hepatitis
Abstract Number: 570
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 44-year-old African American male with medical history of hypertension presented to the emergency room for two and a half weeks of nausea without vomiting. He endorsed fatigue, weakness, anorexia, weight loss, jaundice, itching and constipation. He denied fever, night sweats, pale stools, hematochezia or abdominal pain. He reported dark urine with dysuria. […]
Abstract Number: 587
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: An 87-year-old female with a history significant for hyperlipidemia on high-intensity atorvastatin for 6 months, multinodular goiter, Raynaud’s disease, spinal stenosis with peripheral neuropathy presents with 3 days of decreased appetite and bilateral lower extremity pain. Her COVID RT-PCR screen was positive, but the patient denied cough, shortness of breath, fever, or diarrhea. […]
Abstract Number: 702
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 40 year old previously healthy female was incidentally found to have elevated transaminases on routine lab work. She was sent to our hospital for further evaluation. On admission, she complained of fatigue, right sided abdominal discomfort, and jaundice of a few weeks. She denied taking prescription medications but reported taking a supplement […]
Abstract Number: 783
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 70-year-old woman was admitted to our medical center with a 2-month history of abdominal discomfort, anorexia and fatigue. Past medical history was notable for hyperlipidemia. Five weeks prior to admission, the patient presented to her primary provider with similar complaints and was found to have significantly elevated liver enzymes, as shown in […]
Abstract Number: 786
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 23-year-old woman presented with complaints of jaundice, nausea, and epigastric pain for ten days. She had a history of epithelioid hemangiodendothelioma (EHE) of the lungs, diagnosed six months prior to presentation. She had been treated with interferon alpha-2b (a type 1 interferon) for four months, but this was stopped two weeks prior […]
Abstract Number: 810
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 75-year-old Caucasian female with a history of hyperlipidemia treated with statin presented to the emergency room for generalized weakness. She became completely bedbound over the course of 5 days. Examination showed symmetric muscle weakness with power 2/5 at proximal muscles but normal strength in distal muscles. Deep tendon reflexes were decreased. She […]
Abstract Number: 927
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 64-year-old man with diet-controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidemia presented to an academic center with painless jaundice. He was in his usual state of health until 2 weeks prior to presentation when he noticed dark urine. He then developed jaundice 4 days before his presentation. Initial laboratory testing was notable for […]
Abstract Number: I26
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 77-year-old female was admitted with a 3-week history of pruritus and a 1-week history of jaundice and fatigue. Patient had not used any new medications, except for recently prescribed ACE inhibitors. There was no history of alcohol abuse or liver disease and no recent sick contacts. Other medical conditions are type 2 […]
Abstract Number: 1142
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 46-year-old woman with no past medical history presented with right upper quadrant pain, jaundice, and pruritus after undergoing a liver biopsy at an outside hospital. At the outside hospital, she had these same symptoms with hyperbilirubinemia and transaminitis. HIDA scan was negative. The liver biopsy showed marked portal and pan-lobular inflammatory infiltration […]