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Abstract Number: 597
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 66-year-old woman with hypertension presented to the hospital one day after arrival to New York City from Guinea with chronic daily vomiting, unintentional weight loss, progressive shoulder pain, and a subacute pruritic rash. She denied fevers, night sweats, difficulty breathing, chest pain, palpitations, unusual skin exposures, insect bites, trauma to the shoulder, […]
Abstract Number: 818
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 70-year-old man with a history of adenoid cystic carcinoma initially presented with a 1-2 week history of olfactory and auditory hallucinations in the setting of intermittent fever. He reported that in addition to those symptoms he had diarrhea, which he attributed to having eaten undercooked meat. His auditory hallucinations involved hearing African […]
Abstract Number: 936
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: 63 year old female with RA on methotrexate presented with a 2 week history of fevers (Tmax of 102), nausea, and multiple episodes of diarrhea. The patient denied any recent travel, sick contacts, or antibiotic use. On admission, CT abdomen/pelvis showed extensive enterocolitis as well as thrombocytopenia with platelets of 128K. Stool GI […]
Abstract Number: 1150
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 72 years old Caucasian male presented to the hospital with the complaint of generalized maculopapular rash involving the chest and bilateral upper and lower extremities with the itching for the last 12 hours. He also had been having diarrhea for the last 2 days which was loose watery in consistency and yellowish in […]
Oral Presentations
Abstract Number: Oral
SHM Converge 2021
Background: Delirium is a common complication within the hospital setting with nearly one in three older patients experiencing it during hospitalization. Reduction in delirium is associated with decreased falls, decreased distress of patients and caregivers, and decreased length of stay as a result. Identification and reduction of delirium, therefore, is of the utmost importance to […]