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Abstract Number: 825
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 56 year-old man with a history of psoriasis on adalimumab, coronary artery disease with prior stents, presented with chest pressure, dizziness, and dyspnea on exertion after noticing three days of melena and crampy abdominal pain. He denied nausea, vomiting, hematemesis, or bright red blood per rectum. Other than taking aspirin 81mg once […]
Abstract Number: 825
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: This is a 72-year-old female patient who presents to the ED for the evaluation of loss of consciousness. The patient’s family also endorsed dark stools for the past few days. She has a medical history significant for Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus, and papillary thyroid cancer. On arrival, the Patient’s BP was 126/55, Heart […]
Abstract Number: 826
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: This is a 32 year old male with no pertinent medical history who presented to the emergency department with complaints of headache, body aches, vomiting, diarrhea, fevers and chills for 4 days. The patient also admits to generalized weakness and poor appetite. The patient denies any chest pain, dyspnea, shortness of breath. The […]
Abstract Number: 826
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 65 year-old man with a past medical history of CAD s/p CABG, ischemic cardiomyopathy with EF 35%, bicuspid aortic valve stenosis s/p aortic valve replacement, and asbestosis presented to the ER for evaluation of anterior neck swelling, dyspnea on exertion, dysphagia, and a 30 lb unintentional weight loss over 5 months. On […]
Abstract Number: 826
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 39-year-old Bulgarian man, recently diagnosed with non ischemic cardiomyopathy was transferred to our hospital due to upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The patient reports seven months of intermittent hematemesis that worsened after two significant episodes of vomiting bright red blood. The patient became hemodynamically unstable in spite of aggressive fluid resuscitation and blood transfusion, […]
Abstract Number: 826
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 62-year-old female presented with a two-week history of right upper quadrant abdominal pain radiating to the back. Her pain was described as sharp and intermittent and associated with subjective fever, nausea, vomiting, headache, and dizziness. On examination, the patient was hypertensive but afebrile. Abdominal tenderness was noted in the right upper quadrant […]
Abstract Number: 828
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 21-year-old healthy Hispanic male presented to the hospital for evaluation of fever and sore throat for 4 weeks. He had no significant past medical history and he was not on any medications. His vital signs were within normal limits. Physical exam revealed icterus and no hepatosplenomegaly. The remainder of the physical exam […]
Abstract Number: 831
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 69 year old woman presented to our hospital with 5 days of fever, diarrhea, abdominal pain & debilitating leg pain. Her only known medical problem was hyperlipidemia, for which she had recently increased her statin dose. 6 weeks prior to admission, she visited her hometown in Jiangxi, China. There, she drank tap […]
Abstract Number: 833
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 59-year-old Caucasian male eight months post liver transplant on Tacrolimus and Prednisone and one month post COVID-19 infection presented to our hospital with progressive weakness. Ten days prior to presentation he noted paresthesias of bilateral upper and lower extremities. This progressed to distal 4/5 weakness in all extremities, dysphagia, dysarthria, severe lower […]
Abstract Number: 833
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A sixty-six-year-old male with a history of Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance (MGUS), Atrial Fibrillation, and Rheumatic Heart Disease requiring aortic and mitral valvuloplasty, was on warfarin with an INR goal of 3.5-4 due to multiple hypercoagulable factors and recurrent Transient Ischemic Attacks (TIAs) at INR 2.5-3.5. Post prostate cancer radiation, he developed […]