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Abstract Number: 640
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: The patient is a 23 years old Hispanic male with no significant past medical history presented to the ED with the chief complaints of sore throat, headache, nausea, vomiting for 5 days. He was at his baseline health status 5 days ago, when he started noticing malaise, followed by sore throat and fever. […]
Abstract Number: 701
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 20-year-old otherwise healthy male presented with a three day history of fever, sore throat, and myalgias. He was given supportive care and discharged home after testing negative for strep. He returned three days later with pleuritic chest pain, neck and ear pain, and had developed trismus. On arrival, his heart rate was […]
Abstract Number: 736
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A healthy 25-year-old man presented with 8 days of progressively worsening sore throat, fever and neck swelling which were unresponsive to 2 outpatient courses of clarithromycin. On presentation, he was febrile, tachycardic, hypotensive, tachypneic and hypoxic. Physical examination was significant for a palpable left-sided neck mass, trismus, and muffled voice. Initial labs revealed […]
Abstract Number: A27
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 25 year old woman with history of asthma presented to the emergency department with one week of sore throat, cough, shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Upon arrival, she was hypotensive, tachycardic, tachypneic, febrile, and was found to have leukocytosis, elevated lactate, procalcitonin, and creatinine prompting concern for septic shock. She […]
Abstract Number: C49
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A healthy 22-year-old presented with four days of acute onset emesis, jaundice, and fever. Four days prior to presentation, the patient ate fried chicken and rice for lunch. Four hours later he had twelve episodes of non-bilious non-bloody vomiting, without associated diarrhea or abdominal pain. Over the next three days, he developed progressive […]