Meeting
Abstract Number: 362
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Procalcitonin (PCT) is a biomarker that correlates with the presence of bacterial infection in certain clinical scenarios; it has increasingly accepted indications for antibiotic stewardship. Most sources suggest that antibiotics should be considered for patients with suspected infection and PCT values ≥ 0.25-0.5 ng/ml; conversely, clinicians should consider withholding antibiotics for patients with PCT […]
Abstract Number: 645
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 55-year-old woman with no known past medical issues is admitted with a 1-week history of weakness and two days of fever and chills. Workup showed WBC count was 15600/µL, C-reactive protein of 14.3 mg/dL, procalcitonin of less than 0.05 ng/mL, and lactate of 0.7 mmol/L. Since procalcitonin was negative and there was […]
Abstract Number: 658
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 67-year-old female with a history of hypothyroidism, type II diabetes and hypertension presented with acute on chronic diarrhea. She reported a 9-month history of profuse watery stools, up to 15 times per day. Outpatient workup including infectious stool studies, celiac panel, and allergy testing, had been unrevealing. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy and colonoscopy with biopsies […]
Abstract Number: B44
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 68-year-old woman presented with a small, right-sided neck lump, without any compressive symptoms. She reported the size of the lump had been constant for 7 years and denied hyper or hypothyroidism symptoms. No known family history of thyroid, pheochromocytoma or calcium disorder was noted. Past medical history showed hypertension.Her neck examination showed […]