Meeting
Abstract Number: 543
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: We present a case of a 36 year old non-smoking female with history of hypothyroidism, two spontaneous abortions (with negative hypercoagulability workup), no recent travel, or OCP use, who came to the ED with three days of left arm pain, swelling, and bluish discoloration. Patient noticed dull pain of left forearm and arm, […]
Abstract Number: 555
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 95-year-old man presented with progressive right lower extremity swelling. He reports a chronic history of overflow incontinence. Laboratory evaluation revealed a normal coagulation profile, creatinine of 1.5 milligrams per deciliter. A venous duplex ultrasound demonstrated acute occlusive deep venous thrombosis (DVT) in the right lower extremity. A computed tomography (CT) venogram confirmed […]
Abstract Number: 896
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 66 year old female with a past medical history of hypertension (HTN), hyperlipidemia (HLD) and coronary artery disease (CAD) presented to the hospital for an elective three-vessel coronary artery bypass graft involving the left internal mammary artery to left anterior descending artery, saphenous vein graft (SVG) to the obtuse marginal artery, and […]
Abstract Number: 1065
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old female presented with painful swelling in the left lower extremity. She had a similar complaint over 30 years ago when she was on oral contraceptives and was eventually diagnosed with a deep venous thrombosis(DVT) in the left leg. Vitals showed an oral temperature of 36.7degree celsius , heart rate of 76, […]