Meeting
Abstract Number: 157
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Delays in antibiotic administration in sepsis – particularly after the development of hypotension – are associated with increased mortality. Current guidelines recommend antibiotic initiation within one hour of sepsis recognition. However, it is not known how timing of hypotension relates to the timing of meeting sepsis diagnostic criteria and the initiation of treatment. We […]
Abstract Number: 983
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 60 year-old woman with a history of chronic hepatitis C without cirrhosis and schizophrenia with paranoid delusions was admitted with severe progressive bilateral burning foot pain. She had a history of intermittent alcohol use and recent homelessness. She lacked a primary care doctor and sought care for her bilateral lower extremity pain […]
Abstract Number: F33
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: 71-year-old female with history of DM2, HTN, breast carcinoma in situ status post mastectomy, B-cell lymphoma (R-CHOP in 2016 & RT, currently in remission), autoimmune hepatitis related cirrhosis on Azathioprine presented to the hospital with a 4-day history of progressively worsening productive cough, mild hemoptysis, fever and shortness of breath. In the Emergency […]
Abstract Number: J44
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 41-year-old male presented with three-day history of fever with chills, headache, and emesis. His prior medical history was significant for splenomegaly with thrombocytopenia of unclear etiology for several years. He had recent travel throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. He also noted remote travel to East Africa, China and Chile […]
Abstract Number: 1093
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 29-year-old Japanese man who attended to an orthopedist in an outside hospital with multiple fractures of rib bones and a compression fracture of vertebral bones was referred to our hospital for further investigation for the tentative diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis worried about increased serum level of matrix metalloproteinase-3. In advance of the […]