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Abstract Number: 495
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 43-year-old female with a history of NASH cirrhosis and insulin dependent diabetes was sent from the Hepatology clinic for elevated Creatinine from 1.8 to 4.8 mg/dL. Her vital signs were stable and she was admitted for the management of suspected hepatorenal syndrome. Her hospital course was complicated by 5 weeks of ICU […]
Abstract Number: 516
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A healthy 64-year-old woman presented with a sudden onset of crampy lower abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. Physical examination showed a soft, distended abdomen with lower abdominal tenderness and multiple waxy, brown to tan colored papules and plaques on the back, resembling “raindrops,” consistent with seborrheic keratoses. This skin finding was new; her […]
Abstract Number: 522
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 40-year-old white male who had noticed a nodule over the extensor surface of his right forearm, which then grew to a size of 3 cm tumor and ulcerated over six months. At one point, he was assumed to have an infection and treated with antibiotics with no improvement. Around the same time, […]
Abstract Number: 551
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 51-year-old woman with multiple medical co-morbidities including morbid obesity with body mass index of 84, hepatitis C cirrhosis, urinary retention requiring chronic indwelling foley catheter and bilateral non-obstructing renal calculi presented from her nursing home with altered mental status, tachycardia, hypotension, and urinalysis findings consistent with urinary tract infection. She had a […]
Abstract Number: 561
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 69-year-old male with no significant medical history presented to his primary care provider with a 6-week history of progressive rash with painful lesions involving the oral mucosa, face, scalp, back, arms, legs, and groin. The condition was initially treated as a fungal process. In the setting of rapidly progressive oral erosions and […]
Abstract Number: 574
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 42-year-old woman with no past medical history presented to the emergency department with four days of facial swelling and progressive, painless skin lesions on her back and extremities. Six months prior to presentation, the patient reported dark patches on her bilateral lower extremities while experiencing fever and chills. A skin biopsy was […]
Abstract Number: 599
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 32-year-old man with AIDS (CD4 count 45) presented to the emergency department for altered mental status. More specifically, he reported 5 days of severe bitemporal headache, fatigue, memory disturbance, blurry vision, dizziness, and subjective fevers. His review of systems was also positive for acute-on-chronic diarrhea and a diffuse rash. Given his diagnosis […]
Abstract Number: 601
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: 85‑year‑old female with history of infiltrating lobular carcinoma of the left breast, initially diagnosed in 2005, status post left modified radical mastectomy, adjuvant radiation and adjuvant endocrine therapy with arimidex for 5 years that she completed in 07/2010. At that time, the tumor size was 8 cm extending into the dermis and focally present […]
Abstract Number: 660
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: We present a 53-year-old Caucasian male with a history of Ankylosing spondylitis and Sjogren’s syndrome who presented to the ED with cough, fever, fatigue and mild rash that appeared during his admission for a recent knee replacement. Discharged on cefadroxil, his symptoms persisted after completing treatment. No concerns for surgical site infection were […]
Abstract Number: 667
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 36-year-old male with history of keratoconus, corneal scars following corneal transplant, asthma, eczema, chronic herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) and varicella zoster virus (VZV), presented with concerns of eye involvement secondary to HSV-1 versus VZV reactivation. Physical examination revealed periorbital edema, vesicular lesions in trigeminal nerve ophthalmic distribution, neck and upper extremities. […]