Meeting
Abstract Number: 484
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 46 year-old man presents with one week of intermittent headaches. The pain started in his neck and radiated to the eyes. There was associated nausea and vomiting. On the day of admission, he experienced visual hallucinations prompting him to seek medical care. Further history revealed he was diagnosed with CML last year [...]
Abstract Number: 735
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 36-year-old African American male, with accelerated phase Philadelphia chromosome positive CML on dasatinib, presented to a community hospital with abdominal pain, distention, and melenic stools 10 days after being discharged. During the previous admission, he received treatment for recurrent upper gastrointestinal (GI) hemorrhage due to a 1cm duodenal bulb ulcer with underlying [...]
Abstract Number: 0530
SHM Converge 2025
Case Presentation: A 63-year-old female with a history of laryngeal cancer presented with upper abdominal pain, nausea, and fatigue. Labs showed a white blood cell count of 41.5 × 10^9/L, hemoglobin of 10.1 g/dL, platelet count of 162,000/µL, and absolute neutrophil count of 9.97 × 10^9/L, with basophilia (1.0 k/µL). Peripheral blood smear had circulating [...]