Meeting
Abstract Number: 609
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 28-year-old man with a history of non-seminomatous testicular cancer presents after four cycles of chemotherapy that included bleomycin with three weeks of dyspnea and pleuritic chest pain, worse for the previous week. He reports his chest pain began after his third cycle of chemotherapy. With each cycle of chemotherapy, he experiences several […]
Abstract Number: 1104
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Boerhaave’s syndrome, or effort rupture of the esophagus, is a rare and potentially life-threatening surgical emergency occurring in about 3.1/1,000,000 people per year1. We present a case of Boerhaave’s syndrome associated with cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS). Discussion: A 21-year-old male with a history of daily marijuana use for the last 5 years presented […]