Meeting
Abstract Number: 696
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 19-year-old female with no significant past medical history presented to our center with recurrent unprovoked epistaxis episodes, gingival bleeding, a non-pruritic lower extremity rash, and fifteen-pound weight loss over three months. She reports associated episodes of headaches and dizziness; however, denied oral ulcers, joint swelling or pain, muscle pain or weakness, Raynaud’s […]
Abstract Number: 752
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 29-year-old African American man presented as a transfer from an outside hospital for uncontrolled diabetic ketoacidosis. Two months prior to admission he was diagnosed with ketosis prone type 2 diabetes mellitus. On presentation he had a BMI 22.6, a rash around his nose, acanthosis nigricans under his arms, Raynaud’s phenomenon and intermittent […]
Abstract Number: 786
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 44 year-old female with a history of essential hypertension presented with one month of progressive chest pain, dyspnea and fevers. These symptoms were associated with a dry cough, sore throat and symmetric joint pains with swelling and morning stiffness of the hands and wrists. Her chest pain was left sided and knife-like, […]