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Abstract Number: 442
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 62-year-old female with a past medical history of depression, obesity status postbariatric surgery, non-cardiac syncope and recurrent sinusitis presented to her primary care physicianfor further workup of her syncope. During this visit she was also complaining of continued left frontaland maxillary sinus pain for the past four weeks. She had recently completed […]
Abstract Number: 445
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 51–year–old female, with no significant past medical history, presented to the emergency room with dyspnea and swelling of the throat. The patient first began to experience shortness of breath two months prior to this encounter. At that time, the patient was evaluated in the emergency department of an outside hospital. Pulmonary embolus […]
Abstract Number: 465
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndrome Type 2 is a rare syndrome, with a prevalence of 1.4 to 4.5 per 100,000, distinguished by an association between autoimmune thyroid disease, Addison’s disease, and/or Type 1 diabetes mellitus (Wang, 2016). It can be particularly challenging to diagnose, especially in a situation where the endocrinopathies develop simultaneously leading to […]
Abstract Number: 471
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 55-year-old male with no past medical history presented with 10 days of progressively worsening generalized weakness, malaise, and night sweats.The patient, employed as a landscaper, had been mowing grass and spraying rodenticides at a rural farm 3 weeks prior. Shortly after this incident, he awoke with a constellation of symptoms including fatigue, […]
Abstract Number: 549
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: An 8-week pregnant G5P1041 24-year-old African American female with no past medical history presented with acute onset left-sided weakness, slurred speech, and paresthesia. Her symptoms started a day after taking one dose of misoprostol as morning-after pill. She used misoprostol multiple times previously with neither neurological nor cardiovascular symptoms. On physical examination, her […]
Abstract Number: 900
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: 71-year-old male with extensive smoking history was referred to the hospital by his PCP for new-onset severe hyponatremia of 117mMol/L. He denied any active complaints and initial physical examination showed an euvolemic male. Low serum osmolality of 245mOsm/kg but high urine osmolality of 309mOsm/kg and high urine sodium of 68mEq/L were suggestive of […]