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Abstract Number: 671
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 64 year old man with a history of membranous nephropathy on tacrolimus and recent cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM) repair, with stent placement seven months prior, presented to the emergency room with one day of progressive lethargy, frontal headache, photophobia, and confusion with subjective fevers and nausea.His vitals on presentation were significant for […]
Abstract Number: 696
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old male was diagnosed with left renal pelvic, caliceal and ureteral transitional cell carcinoma(CA) 3 years before presentation. Patient had a history of transitional cell CA of the bladder that had extended to both kidneys despite local intervention. Patient underwent left sided nephroureterectomy 2 years later because of massive disease burden. Renal function […]
Abstract Number: 698
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: We are reporting the case of a 25-year-old Hispanic gentleman with a strong family history of Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP) and Colorectal Cancer (CRC) who presented for evaluation of abdominal pain, recurrent bloody stools, and profound weight loss. Initial Hb was 7.2 g/dL, and abdominal examination showed generalized rigidity and tenderness worse in […]
Abstract Number: 731
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old African American woman presented with complaints of headache, blurred vision, and progressive bilateral leg swelling for the past week. This was her 4th visit to the hospital in 4 months with similar complaints. Medical history was significant for 10 years of refractory hypertension, many no-show visits, consequent chronic kidney disease stage IV, […]
Abstract Number: 813
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 48-year-old-female with the history of Diabetes Mellitus presented with the complain of feeling sick for four-day-duration, chronic diarrhea, and unintentional weight loss of 20 lbs. over a period of two weeks. She was hypotensive with blood pressure 83/42 mmHg, hypothermic with temperature 35 C, tachycardic with the heart rate of 132 and tachypneic […]
Abstract Number: 919
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 45-year-old female with past medical history of gastric sleeve in 2018 and follicular thyroid carcinoma status-post total thyroidectomy in 2019, resulting in hypothyroidism, is currently taking Levothyroxine 200mcg daily. Patient presented to the Emergency department with increasing fatigue for the past 3 weeks. She reported progressive shortness of breath on exertion, “loss […]
Abstract Number: A22
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Hypertension occurs in up to 75% of hospitalized patients. However, less than 1% have “hypertensive emergency,” defined as severely elevated blood pressure (BP) with end-organ injury. Current guidelines support emergent treatment of hypertensive emergency but recommend against immediate reduction of severely elevated BP in patients without end-organ injury (i.e., asymptomatic hypertension). Recent literature suggests […]
Abstract Number: A39
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: An 86-year-old woman with a history of hypertension on oral medications and chronic systolic heart failure presented to the hospital with chest pain and dyspnea. She was noted to be acutely hypertensive, tachypneic and hypoxemic. Physical exam revealed diffuse crackles, jugular venous distention and lower extremity pitting edema. EKG was consistent with an […]
Abstract Number: G13
SHM Converge 2022
Background: In 2017, Emory University Hospital Midtown (EUHM) instituted fast track dialysis (FTD) which identified low risk patients in the emergency department (ED) in need of hemodialysis (HD) and provided it efficiently. The FTD development team consisted of hospital medicine, emergency medicine, nephrology, dialysis unit nursing, and ED nursing. This program showed a reduction in […]
Abstract Number: K16
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Emergency room crowding has been proven to lead to poor outcomes (e.g., mortality) and has worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic. Novel clinics that work collaboratively with emergency departments (ED) to transfer lower acuity patients to receive care in ambulatory settings rather than the ED have emerged. Our innovative ED Surge program cares for these […]