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Abstract Number: L45
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old man with a past medical history of intravenous drug use and morbid obesity presented with worsening bilateral lower leg pain and swelling. The patient reported chronic bilateral leg edema after a car accident a year before and started noticing skin changes with multiple bumps on his legs for several months. He […]
Abstract Number: O29
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 61 yo female with a medical history significant for chronic pancreatitis, hypertension, brain aneurysm, and cerebrovascular accident presented to the ED for shortness of breath. She was previously admitted to an outside hospital with shortness of breath secondary to ACE-I induced angioedema, during which period she was emergently intubated due to diffuse […]
Abstract Number: O42
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: An 80 year old woman with a history of disseminated tuberculosis (positive TB cultures in knee wound and pulmonary cavitary lesion in 2021) presented to the emergency room for edema and erythema of her right third DIP joint. Over the past 3 weeks, she had waxing and waning orientation, reduced energy, and reduced […]
Abstract Number: 1049
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 58-year-old male presented to the hospital with several days of fatigue and shortness of breath. His vitals were initially stable, and labs showed a hemoglobin of 4.2 (normal 13.5—17.5), white blood cell count WBC 20.1 (4.5—11.0), and platelet count 43 (160—420), BNP 617 (0—900 pg/ml). He received one unit of packed red […]
Abstract Number: 1077
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: We present the case of a 62-year-old Caucasian female with angioedema suspected to be secondary to Olmesartan use, which was relieved with tranexamic acid. Of note, this was the third time she had presented to the hospital with angioedema symptoms within in the past 6 months. Before this period, she states she had […]
Abstract Number: 1082
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 44-year-old African-American male with past medical history of hypertension, asthma and obesity, presented to the emergency room with acute onset, constant, severe lower abdominal pain of two days duration which was throbbing and aching in quality without any radiation. He also endorsed nausea & loose stools. Of note, his hypertension was newly […]
Abstract Number: 1146
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 53-year-old woman with a history of irritable bowel syndrome-diarrhea (IBS-D), chronic pain syndrome and years of nonspecific symptoms including chronic diarrhea and neuropathy, presented with bilateral lower extremity edema. Multiple outpatient visits and studies demonstrated nonspecific autoimmune condition with questionable monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) as well as a presumed diagnosis […]