Meeting
Abstract Number: 491
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 25 year-old woman with severe persistent asthma, chronic self-resolving episodes of hemoptysis, history of miscarriage, and iron deficiency anemia secondary to heavy menses presented with sub-acute worsening shortness of breath and hemoptysis despite adherence to home inhalers. Patient had multiple prior hospitalizations requiring intubation for asthma exacerbations, complicated by hemoptysis. Upon presentation, […]
Abstract Number: 808
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 71-year-old male presented with 4 months of fatigue, low-grade fevers, night sweats, dry cough, and a 10-pound weight loss. He also recalled developing a central ulcerating pustular lesion on his right anterior shin a few months ago, that spontaneously resolved. Significant history included chronic sinusitis with nasal polyposis requiring 4 nasal polypectomies, […]
Abstract Number: 1025
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: This is the case of a 55-year-old female with history of asthma who presented with chief complaint of abdominal pain. The patient endorsed an 8-month history of intermittent stomach discomfort that acutely worsened to severe RUQ pain, nausea, and diarrhea. Social history was notable for recent travel to China and herbal supplement use. Patient’s outpatient […]