Meeting
Abstract Number: 580
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 64-year-old woman presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with widespread exanthem that started weeks prior to presentation. She reported having had similar exanthems at the same time the previous two years, which resolved with oral steroid therapy on both occasions. However, they were not as extensive as the present rash. 6 weeks [...]
Abstract Number: 587
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 54-year-old female presented with acute kidney injury and nephrotic syndrome secondary to diabetic nephropathy requiring initiation of hemodialysis. She has a past medical history of chronic kidney disease stage III, diabetes mellitus, and chronic eczematous non-bullous rash for two years. The hospital course was complicated by a marked worsening of her chronic [...]
Abstract Number: 670
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 60 yr old male with eczematous dermatitis and history of erythroderma presented to Dermatology clinic with four days of diffuse skin weeping, swelling, and bilateral lower extremity skin sloughing. Two weeks prior, he underwent partial colectomy for adenocarcinoma of his sigmoid colon. Cyclosporine was initiated for suspected erythroderma flare of eczematous dermatitis [...]
Abstract Number: 798
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 66-year-old man with atopic dermatitis (managed with topical triamcinolone) presented with three weeks of a diffuse pruritic eczematous rash, anorexia, and a 15-lb weight loss. Vital signs were normal, but he was cachectic (BMI 15) with palpable inguinal lymphadenopathy and erythroderma affecting over 90% of his body. He was admitted for inability [...]