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Abstract Number: 743
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 65-year-old male presented to his primary care clinic with a one-week history of right-sided facial pain radiating around his jaw with a negative dental workup. Patient had progressive neck pain and CT scan found an ill-defined soft tissue in the superior mediastinum encasing the proximal left common carotid artery, concerning for lymphoproliferative […]
Abstract Number: 751
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: Our patient is 78-year-old female with a history of mitral regurgitation, left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOT) with systolic anterior motion (SAM) of mitral valve, migraines, and hypertension presented with lightheadedness. She had increased blood pressure at her recent office visit few weeks back necessitating an increase in dosage of verapamil. At presentation, […]
Abstract Number: 756
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: Our patient is a 15-year-old female, previously healthy, who presented with right facial swelling. She developed swelling of her right upper lip after rupturing a pimple located on her lip. Over the next two days, erythema developed, and the swelling progressed to include her right eye, cheek, both lips, and around her jaw […]
Abstract Number: 757
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: This case report describes a 63-year-old man with a medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, abdominal aortic aneurysm status post endovascular repair, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and alcohol use disorder, who presented to the emergency department with a three-week history of generalized weakness followed by a fever for the last three days. Physical examination […]
Abstract Number: 818
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 68-year-old male with a pituitary adenoma resected 6 months ago complicated by panhypopituitarism on oral hydrocortisone, presented to the ED with acute progressive altered mental status, headache, and fatigue. On the day of presentation, he became confused to the point where he could not dress himself. Vitals were significant for HR 98. […]
Abstract Number: 834
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 36 year old female, with known ileocolonic Crohn disease, status post total colectomy with end ileostomy, maintained on Infliximab and Azathioprine, presented with one day history of subjective fevers and fixed, non-progressive, abdominal wall rash. Two days prior to presentation she was started on Topiramate and Celecoxib for headaches and joint pain […]
Abstract Number: 879
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 50-year-old male presented to the emergency room with worsening left lower quadrant abdominal pain of two days duration associated with subjective fever and diarrhea. Three weeks prior to his presentation, he was diagnosed with acute diverticulitis confirmed by abdominal CT scan and completed a seven-day course of Ciprofloxacin and Metronidazole. Physical exam […]
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: 979
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 77-year-old caucasian man with a known history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia and tobacco abuse initially presented to the hospital with chest pain for five days. He was diagnosed with an anterior wall ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). He underwent cardiac catheterization with drug-eluting stent placement to the left anterior descending coronary artery. Subsequent […]
Abstract Number: B29
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 69-year-old male with past medical history of bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and substance abuse presented to the ED with suicidal and homicidal ideations, and hallucinations. He tested positive for COVID-19 at an outside hospital a week prior to presentation. He endorsed subjective fevers and productive cough with non-bloody sputum and denied dyspnea, chest […]