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Search Results for Endocarditis
Abstract Number: 628
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 63-year-old man with a history of intravenous drug use (IVDU) and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy presented with one month of fevers, night sweats, and chest pain. Exam was notable for tachycardia (HR = 128), tachypnea (RR = 25), hypoxia (O2 Sat = 85% on RA), accessory muscle use, and crackles to the mid-lungs bilaterally. […]
Abstract Number: 628
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: The patient is a 20-year-old male who is an immigrant from Egypt with no significant medical history. He presented with recurrent fevers, chills, and dysuria for one week. He was prescribed cephalexin for a urinary tract infection at an urgent care clinic. The patient continued to have fevers and developed a dry cough […]
Abstract Number: 635
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A previously healthy 39-year-old male with a bicuspid aortic valve and mitral valve prolapse presented with three months of intermittent bilateral retro-orbital headache, abdominal discomfort, subjective fevers, night sweats, and 10-kg weight loss. Two weeks prior to admission, he developed acute left-sided vision loss and left-sided weakness, and was diagnosed with right parietal […]
Abstract Number: 638
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 64-year-old male with past medical history of hypertension (HTN), hyperlipidemia, coronary artery disease, and end stage renal disease, secondary to HTN, on hemodialysis presented with a 3-day history of nonproductive cough and malaise with no other associated symptoms. On admission vital signs were within normal limits; physical exam revealed decreased breath sounds […]
Abstract Number: 644
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 45-year-old female with a history of agammaglobulinemia, gastroparesis post G & J tubes, complicated by failure to thrive necessitating TPN via a Hickman catheter presents, 2 years after catheter placement, with confusion, weakness and abdominal pain. She was admitted to the ICU for septic shock.Blood cultures were positive for MRSA and Candida […]
Abstract Number: 650
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: 60 y/o African American male with h/o chronic esophageal strictures s/p multiple esophageal dilations presented to the ER with complaints of weakness and dizziness. He met criteria for sepsis with possible source as aspiration pneumonia and was started on broad spectrum antibiotics. Two sets of blood cultures done from admission grew Streptococcus mitis/oralis. […]
Abstract Number: 664
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: An 80-year-old Caucasian male with a recent history of transaortic valve replacement three months ago was admitted to the hospital with a history of malaise, and 20 pounds of weight loss in 2 months—no history of diarrhea, fever, vomiting or skin rash. Notably, the patient had multiple admissions for septicemia with salmonella species […]
Abstract Number: 683
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 38-year-old male patient with a history of intravenous drug use was transferred from an outside hospital after initial presentation with persistent fevers, episodic flushing and swelling in right hand and forearm. Workup at the other hospital included blood cultures positive for unspeciated yeast, and a transthoracic echocardiogram with normal ejection fraction (65%) […]
Abstract Number: 688
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 41-year-old woman with no significant medical history and eight weeks postpartum presented to the hospital with new left-sided facial numbness, right labial droop and intermittent numbness of the left arm one day prior to admission. She also had a near-syncopal episode and noticed her speech declined with drooling and facial asymmetry. Admission […]
Abstract Number: 697
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: This is the case of a 77-year-old male who was treated for endocarditis that seeded from a chronic upper extremity wound. The patient had a history of chronic atrial fibrillation and was status post placement of an AICD pacemaker. He initially presented to a community hospital with altered mental status and was found […]