Meeting
Abstract Number: 387
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 38-year-old female presented to the emergency department with sudden-onset sharp right-sided chest pain and shortness of breath, associated with exertion at work. Notable medical history included recurrent episodes of brief dyspnea starting one day before her menstrual period and subsiding 1-2 days later. At the time of admission, the patient was on […]
Abstract Number: 473
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 33-year-old nulliparous female with no past medical history presented with 10 months of postmenstrual umbilical pain. She denied vomiting or bowel habit changes, but noted recent orthopnea and nocturnal wheezing. She had regular, monthly menstrual cycles associated with dysmenorrhea since menarche at age 11. She had not been sexually active for 4 […]
Abstract Number: 502
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 37-year-old woman with a history of endometriosis, fibroids status post fibroidectomy, and previous spontaneous pneumothorax presented with 3 days of progressively worsening right pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea on exertion. She had a similar presentation nine months prior at an outside hospital and was found to have a spontaneous right pneumothorax requiring […]
Abstract Number: 576
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: We present a 26-year-old female with history of endometriosis and recurrent tubo-ovarian abscess (TOA). She was admitted for a TOA in 2021, and her course was complicated by a right sided spontaneous pneumothorax. On review, she had experienced two prior episodes of right-sided pneumothorax in 2017 and 2020.The first episode resolved spontaneously; while […]
Abstract Number: 952
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Thoracic Endometriosis Syndrome (TES) is a rare condition characterized by the presence of endometrial tissue inside the thoracic cavity. It consists of four distinct clinical entities: catamenial pneumothorax, catamenial hemothorax, hemoptysis, and pulmonary nodules. We report the case of a 47-year-old woman with TES presenting as spontaneous hemopneumothorax. Patient is a 47-year old […]