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Abstract Number: 18
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: Patient is a 45-year-old female with a history of esophageal reflux and dysmotility, asthma, depression/anxiety, and recent SARS-2-CoV infection (COVID-19) who presented to our hospital 9 months after initial and 3 months after recurrent COVID-19 with headache, dyspnea, and home blood pressures (BP) > 180/100. Patient reported intermittent symptoms for the last 3 […]
Abstract Number: 265
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: There are 400,000 cases and 30,000 deaths from Clostridium difficile (C. diff) infections in the United States annually. Efforts to reduce the transmission of C. diff have focused on patients with diarrhea, however, many patients with C. diff are carriers who do not have symptoms. Because they are not isolated, carriers serve as a […]
Abstract Number: 363
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Clostroidiodes difficile (CD) is the most prevalent hospital-acquired infection in the United States, accounting for approximately 224,000 infections with 13,000 deaths and over 1 billion dollars spent in 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Clostroidiodes difficile accounts for 10-20% of diarrhea in the setting of recent antibiotics exposure.In St […]
Abstract Number: 386
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 23-year-old female with a history of acne presented with abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea for 1 day. The pain was crampy in nature and located in her lower abdomen, without radiation or modifying factors. She was passing frequent watery bowel movements with a small amount of blood. She denied any recent travel, […]
Abstract Number: 401
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 46-year-old female with obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus presented with chief complaint of diarrhea for several days. Her diarrhea was watery, non-bloody, greenish in color, and occurred hourly. She had associated nausea, vomiting, and right upper quadrant (RUQ) abdominal pain. She denied recent travel, consumption of unusual foods, and knowing anyone […]
Abstract Number: 410
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 39 year old male with a history of alcohol abuse and recurrent methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia was referred for tertiary evaluation of recurrent bacteremia and diffuse eczematous eruption. He reported chronic diarrhea and long standing eczema with significant worsening of his rash in the last few months. A scaly and painful […]
Abstract Number: 433
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 67 year old woman presented with right upper quadrant abdominal pain and was diagnosed with acute cholecystitis. She underwent elective cholecystectomy, complicated by Clostridium difficile colitis. Despite treatment with oral Vancomycin, she had persistent diarrhea and failure to thrive for a month. Repeat Clostridium difficile toxin was negative. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy showed erosive gastritis […]
Abstract Number: 472
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 70-year-old male with a history of type 2 diabetes mellitus complicated by neurogenic bladder with indwelling catheter and severe peripheral vascular disease status post bilateral below knee amputations (BKAs) presented with watery diarrhea and nausea for 1 day. Both amputations were in the preceding four months. He required multiple rounds of antibiotics […]
Abstract Number: 482
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 29-year-old woman presented with a 4-day history of nausea, vomiting, and watery, non-bloody diarrhea. She also had fever, headache, and dark urine. She had traveled to Puerto Rico one-week prior, where she ate raw fish and vegetables and drank tap water. She also went to visit a waterfall, where she swam in […]
Abstract Number: 489
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 32-year-old South Asian woman with history of IgA nephropathy complicated by end stage renal disease status post renal transplant (CMV/EBV positive), latent tuberculosis infection, C. Diff colitis, and recurrent urinary tract infections presented with two days of fevers and diarrhea. One week prior to admission she was seen at a local ED […]