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Abstract Number: 650
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 19 year-old woman with anxiety and recurrent fevers of unclear etiology presents with fever, sore throat, and body aches. Three days prior to presentation, the patient developed sore throat, dysphagia, and dysphonia. She presented to urgent care, started amoxicillin without improvement. She developed fevers (Tmax 104F) two days later, prompting an Emergency […]
Abstract Number: 651
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: Here we present a case of a 22-year-old female with a history of periodic fever who presented to our hospital with the chief complaint of cyclical fever. For four months prior to presentation, the patient had experienced fevers every four weeks, nearly to the date, that each lasted for two to three days, […]
Abstract Number: 665
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: 42-year-old woman with a history of pulmonary embolism and Antiphospholipid syndrome on lifelong anticoagulation with warfarin presented with severe neck pain and headache for five days. Examination revealed an ill appearing woman, febrile to 101F with excruciating neck pain aggravated by movement in all directions and swallowing. Labs were remarkable for an elevated […]
Abstract Number: 665
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 65 year old female with a history of type one diabetes presented to an outside hospital with malaise, fatigue, and fever for two weeks. Her social history was notable for frequently participating in the interactive game of Geocaching in the outdoors of southeastern PA. On arrival she had severe sepsis with a […]
Abstract Number: 666
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 21 year old man presented to his primary care doctor with 4 days of fever and pruritic rash on his hands and feet. Labs showed leukocytosis and transaminitis. He was started on doxycycline for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, however tick borne serologies, MonoSpot, HIV, RPR and hepatidities were ultimately negative. He presented […]
Abstract Number: 679
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 63-year-old man presents with a painful, erythematous lesion on his left thigh. He indicates that the lesion first appeared seven days ago and was followed by the onset fevers, chills, headaches, and body aches. The patient’s past medical history is notable for HIV on antiretroviral therapy with a recent CD4 count of […]
Abstract Number: 680
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 67 year-old man with history of transient ischemic attack, coronary artery disease, and peripheral artery disease status post aorto-iliac graft in 1994 presented with intermittent fevers, chills, and intense rigors. Symptoms started following a dental procedure 6 months earlier after which he was diagnosed with streptococcus anginosus bacteremia. Continued fevers prompted trans-esophageal […]
Abstract Number: 688
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: 38 year old male with history of rheumatoid arthritis presented to the emergency department with six months of episodic fever up to three times a week. Associated symptoms included occasional nonproductive cough and intermittent diffuse abdominal pain without any report of nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea. He denied any other localizing symptoms including dysuria […]
Abstract Number: 692
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 43-year-old previously healthy Nigerian male presented to the ED with fevers for three weeks. He denied any chronic medical conditions, prior surgeries, or travel in the past year. He had initially presented to the ED two weeks prior complaining of fevers. Influenza testing was negative at the time, and he was discharged. […]
Abstract Number: 694
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 63-year-old Hispanic man from Mexico, with a history of hypertension and obesity, presented in September to an outside hospital with high fevers. He worked as a truck driver primarily in Arizona. He had a witnessed seizure and developed persistent altered mental status. The patient rapidly decompensated into septic shock requiring vasopressors, and […]