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Abstract Number: A26
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 19-year-old male with no known medical history presented to the ED after being found down and profusely diaphoretic by his parents. He was unresponsive to multiple doses of Ativan and Narcan. He was tachycardic to the 150s and had respiratory insufficiency, so he was intubated in the ED. Initial EKG showed sinus […]
Abstract Number: G26
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 25-year-old male with no significant past medical and family history presented with a one-week history of fever, productive cough, intermittent shortness of breath, diffuse muscle aches and one episode of syncope on the day of presentation. Initial workup in the emergency department was positive for COVID-19. Inflammatory markers, D-dimer and Fibrinogen levels […]
Abstract Number: G40
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 56-year-old previously healthy Caucasian woman was evaluated by a neurologist for seizure-like activity and syncope. She was placed on a Holter monitor that showed episodes of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, ventricular tachycardia (VT), and third-degree AV block. She presented to the emergency department with chest pain, a new left bundle branch block, and […]
Abstract Number: K36
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 76-year-old Hispanic male with a past medical history of well-controlled hypertension, Pre-diabetes, class 3 obesity, unprovoked Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) progressing to pulmonary embolism (PE) diagnosed 6 months ago, treated with apixaban, presented to the ED with 2 weeks history of progressively worsening dyspnea, dry cough and orthopnea. Denies any chest pain, […]
Abstract Number: L28
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: The patient is a 52 year old female with a history of Scleroderma, Raynaud’s, and APLS who presented to the emergency department for new onset chest pressure for 1 day. On physical exam, vital signs were 99 F, 152/99, 109, and 96% on RA and no cardiac murmurs, crackles on lungs, or pitting […]
Abstract Number: 1075
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: An 82 yo F with history of HTN, HLD, anemia, and atrial fibrillation presented to the ED with right-sided weakness and aphasia. She was subsequently found to have an acute left MCA stroke, which was treated with thrombectomy. She was not on anti-coagulation for her atrial fibrillation due to history of GI bleed […]
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: 1146
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 53-year-old woman with a history of irritable bowel syndrome-diarrhea (IBS-D), chronic pain syndrome and years of nonspecific symptoms including chronic diarrhea and neuropathy, presented with bilateral lower extremity edema. Multiple outpatient visits and studies demonstrated nonspecific autoimmune condition with questionable monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) as well as a presumed diagnosis […]