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Abstract Number: 431
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A healthy 50 year-old high school teacher with a past surgical history significant for elective bilateral breast augmentation presented to clinic for a 2-month history of dry cough unresponsive to steroids. She reported a constellation of symptoms including worsening non-exertional dyspnea, low grade fevers, night sweats, unintentional 30lb weight loss, fatigue, dry skin, and […]
Abstract Number: 446
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 36-year-old Caucasian male, a construction worker, presented with three weeks of high-spiking daily fevers, myalgias and fatigue. He endorsed a water-skiing trip, and tick and dog bites within recent weeks. He was discharged two days prior from an outside hospital (OH), where he was treated for possible pneumonia or a tick-borne illness […]
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: 735
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 39 year-old female from Sudan with no medical history presented with recurrent fevers. She had been discharged 3 days prior after a workup for the cause of her fevers was unfruitful. This workup had included blood and urine cultures, viral hepatitis serologies, anti-nuclear antibodies, rheumatoid factor, HIV antibodies, Quantiferon tuberculosis testing, stool culture, […]
Abstract Number: 777
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: Case 1: A 3-year-old female with no significant past medical history presented with a 5-week history of recurrent fevers as well as bilateral lower extremity pain with difficulty to ambulate. Imaging of the femur revealed focal lucencies in the proximal femoral shaft. The leading diagnosis at admission was malignancy given the length of […]