Meeting
Abstract Number: 503
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 70-year-old man with a history of bladder cancer treated with intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) therapy presented with acute on chronic back pain. Six months prior, he presented with lower back pain, was diagnosed with culture negative bacterial osteomyelitis, and underwent an L3-L5 laminectomy. He was discharged with an empiric 6-week antibiotic course […]
Abstract Number: 649
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 83-year-old woman of Chinese origin with remote history of breast cancer and pulmonary fibrosis of unknown etiology presented to care with one month of fevers, night sweats, malaise, and cough. After three negative acid-fast bacillus (AFB) smears and CT chest showing chronic right apical scarring during hospital admission, she was discharged on […]