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Search Results for Carcinoma
Abstract Number: P36
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 54 year old African American female with a past medical history of significant tobacco use presented with worsening shortness of breath and increased cough. She reported having hemoptysis 2 months ago which resolved, unexplained weight loss (30 lbs over 6 months), orthopnea, and diaphoresis. Physical examination was positive for wheezing and rhonchi, […]
Abstract Number: P37
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: We present a case of a 63 year old man who came in with a left sided neck mass and blue discoloration of his left upper extremity. Patient had left side limb discoloration for a month, he woke up with a large left sided neck mass that prompted him to come to the […]
Abstract Number: 1009
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: The patient is a 61-year-old male theatre director who presented with chronic diarrhea associated with a 50-pound weight loss, fatigue, and weakness. His past surgical history was notable of a Whipple’s procedure done 10 years ago for a symptomatic duodenal mass causing nausea and vomiting, later found to be benign in nature. Patient […]
Abstract Number: 1010
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: AH is a 46-year-old female originally from Senegal with a history of unexplained syncope post loop recorder placement who presented with a two-week history of a nonproductive cough and two months of shortness of breath that acutely worsened. CT chest showed multiple large areas of parenchymal disease, predominantly ground glass opacity and peripheral […]
Abstract Number: 1017
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 74-year-old gentleman presented with right upper quadrant pain, nausea, fever, and chills for one-week duration. Initial workup showed simple hepatic cyst and subsequently was discharged with oral antibiotics. The patient returned a week later for persistent right upper quadrant pain and high-grade fevers. No prior history of jaundice, weight loss, intravenous drug […]
Abstract Number: 1047
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old female presented with abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea for three weeks associated with fever, chills, nausea and multiple bouts of vomiting. On exam, she was hemodynamically stable and had left lower quadrant abdominal tenderness. Laboratory studies were significant for a left shift with a normal white blood cell count. Her chest […]
Abstract Number: 1061
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 61-year-old woman with no pertinent past medical history presented to the hospital with two months of progressive numbness that began with her left foot and hands and eventually extended to her forearms. She developed clumsiness in her hands, gait unsteadiness, and had a 20-pound weight loss. A CT scan of the chest […]
Abstract Number: 1102
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 63-year-old male presented with altered mental status of one day duration. The patient’s history was significant for CAD, CKD Stage 3, and a recent whipple procedure for cholangiocarcinoma complicated by abdominal abscess requiring percutaneous drainage and prolonged course of ertapenem (renally dosed). He was admitted to the hospital with encephalopathy after having […]
Abstract Number: 1123
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Our patient is 56-year-old gentlemen with a history of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy related to prior alcohol use, hypertension and atrial fibrillation who presented to the emergency department complaining of shortness of breath, pleuritic chest pain and subjective feeling of fever and chills of 3 days’ duration. He was found to be hypotensive (86/60 mmHg) […]
Abstract Number: 1164
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 52 year-old woman with a two-month history of metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma presented to the emergency department from oncology clinic with one week of malaise and nausea. She also reported subacute onset of dizziness and fever. She received her second cycle of palliative immunotherapy with ipilimumab/nivolumab 14 days prior to […]