Meeting
Abstract Number: 507
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 17 year old male recently diagnosed with high risk B-Precursor ALL and induction failure, was found in clinic to have an acute murmur. Three days prior, he had arm and leg aches, dry cough, a single fever and fatigue that improved with blood transfusion. Now he had a 3/6 holosystolic blowing murmur […]
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: 717
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 47-year-old immunocompetent male with a medical history significant for active intravenous heroin abuse presented to the hospital with fever and respiratory distress. On admission, he was diaphoretic, febrile, and hypoxemic with an oxygen saturation of 70% on ambient air, necessitating intubation and mechanical ventilation. Chest radiography revealed a right lower lobe infiltrate […]