Meeting
Abstract Number: 474
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 49 year-old man with a recent diagnosis of myasthenia gravis presented with 3 days of fever up to 103, rhinorrhea, frontal headache, mild lower extremity weakness, a mildly productive cough, and a leukocytosis to 16. As he had been started on prednisone and azathioprine 10 days prior to his presentation, he underwent […]
Abstract Number: 692
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 70 year old WM with a history of myasthenia gravis on prednisone for about 1 year prior to admission was admitted with fever, rash and pyuria. Two weeks prior to admission he was started on Azathioprine as his prednisone was being tapered. About 5 days PTA he developed a pustular rash, transient […]
Abstract Number: 799
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 64-year-old male with history of hypertension and pauci-immune glomerulonephritis presented with fatigue, cough associated with weight loss for past 2 months. Prior to the presentation, he was treated with prednisone and cyclophosphamide as part of initial therapy and has been on maintenance therapy with azathioprine for nearly 7 months for his glomerulonephritis. […]