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Search Results for Chest Pain
Abstract Number: 883
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 17-year-old female with a past medical history of allergic rhinitis presents as transfer from an outside hospital for hemoptysis and chest pain. She reports three episodes of ¼ cup worth of bright red blood occurring within the last six months. No reported triggers and no history of trauma, smoking, vaping, lung or […]
Abstract Number: 931
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 78 year old woman with a PMH of asthma, sinusitis, CAD with stents and recent influenza presents with chest pain. Her EKG was without ST changes and troponin was 0.08 ng/mL. Other labs were significant for WBC of 10,900 cells/uL, and absolute eosinophil count 2800 cells/uL. She was diagnosed with NSTEMI and […]
Abstract Number: 948
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 29 year old female with past medical history significant for hyperemesis gravidarum requiring total parenteral nutrition (TPN) presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with chest pain. She had been having intermittent chest pain for the last 3-4 years, which she had always attributed to the scar from her infusion port. An infusion […]
Abstract Number: A42
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 50-year-old woman with history of ESRD on PD, CHF, and recent invasive pulmonary aspergillosis on posaconazole presents with three days of gradually progressive shortness of breath and right-sided chest pain. The chest pain was associated with coughing and deep breathing, but non-exertional with no hemoptysis. The patient lived with her sister and […]
Abstract Number: B30
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A previously healthy 29-year-old woman was diagnosed with end-stage renal disease of unknown etiology and initiated on daily peritoneal dialysis. Patient reported poor compliance with this treatment regimen and, five months later, presented to the emergency department with non-productive cough and pleuritic chest pain. She was found to have left upper lobe pneumonia […]
Abstract Number: B39
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 53-year-old male with a past medical history of hypertension who recently emigrated from El Salvador presented to an ambulatory clinic for evaluation of substernal chest pain that started eight days earlier. He described the chest pain as intermittent, non-radiating, and associated with palpitations, chills, shortness of breath, and diaphoresis. He denied fever, […]
Abstract Number: D43
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 68 year-old Spanish-speaking female with PMH of type 2 diabetes mellitus, GERD, and tobacco use presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with one day of acute-onset substernal chest pain associated with nausea/vomiting and bilateral arm numbness L>R. Initial workup revealed CXR with mass-like opacity in the right upper lobe, high sensitivity troponin […]
Abstract Number: K23
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Chest pain is a common chief complaint among adult patients presenting to emergency departments. An assessment of chest pain management at the institution noted significant variability in provider treatment patterns for chest pain. While a NSTE-ACS protocol existed, there was varied use and inconsistent adoption. Review of pre-intervention data demonstrated that some emergency medicine […]
Abstract Number: P39
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 28-year-old male patient presented to the hospital with central, non-radiating, moderate-intensity chest pain that started four days after his second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The patient had neither any prior history of SARS-COV2 infection nor known exposure to a symptomatic patient. He denied any fever, chills, diaphoresis, upper or lower respiratory […]
Abstract Number: 1125
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 64 year old female with a past medical history of coronary artery disease and coronary artery bypass graft, heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, diabetes mellitus, peripheral arterial disease, hyperlipidemia and a strong smoking history presented to the emergency department with exertional dyspnea worsening over the past 1 month and substernal chest […]