Meeting
Abstract Number: 664
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: 70 year old male admitted for a complicated UTI was placed on piperacillin / tazobactam empirically and subsequently developed abdominal distension and small bowel obstruction. He was admitted to the ICU for fulminant colitis secondary to severe Clostridium Difficile with concern for toxic megacolon. Labs showed a WBC of 34 along with an […]
Abstract Number: 947
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 32 years of male with membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN) on immunosuppression presented with complaints of fever, abdominal pain and diarrhea. His stool had many WBCs, C. diff was negative and CT of the abdomen revealed enterocolitis. His anaerobic blood culture bottles grew Salmonella group from the nonTyphi subtypes. Further history disclosed that he […]