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Search Results for Glomerulonephritis
Abstract Number: 687
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 24-year-old African-American woman presented with nausea, flank pain, and hematuria recurring over several months. Review of symptoms and past medical history were negative. She was a current smoker. Family history was noncontributory. Physical exam was significant for bilateral flank pain. Laboratory testing, serology, and kidney biopsy led to the diagnosis of rapidly […]
Abstract Number: 691
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 22-year-old male with no past medical history presented with a three-week history of a frontal headache associated with nausea and vomiting. He denied various symptoms, including bloody diarrhea, dysuria, or hematuria. He had no history of renal calculi, recent illness, antibiotic exposure, or drug allergies. He recently traveled to Jamaica and Florida […]
Abstract Number: 721
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 59 year-old female with past medical history of Hashimoto’s thyrotoxicosis was admitted because of fatigue, myalgia, acute renal injury with hematuria and proteinuria, positive p-ANCA, positive stool guaiac test, and elevated inflammatory markers. She also had a head CT and MRI done for a new onset of left foot numbness and both […]
Abstract Number: 757
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: An 18-year-old female with past medical history of benign primary hypergammaglobulinemic purpura of Waldenstrom presented with an acute kidney injury, nausea, and vomiting. On admission vital signs were significant for blood pressure elevated to 154/96. Physical exam was grossly normal. Notable laboratory studies included Hgb 8.7, Plt 393, BUN 16, creatinine 1.3 (baseline […]
Abstract Number: 763
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 22-year-old male with no PMH or FH of autoimmune diseases and no substance use history presented with several days of worsening dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain, cough and hemoptysis. On evaluation, his vital signs were T 98.3oF, BP 103/64 mmHg, HR 86/min, RR 21/min, SpO2 93%. Physical exam was notable for auscultation of […]
Abstract Number: 778
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 74-year-old African-American woman presented to our Emergency Department with hemoptysis and severe respiratory distress. Two weeks prior to presentation, she was admitted with persistent cough and blood streaked sputum of 1-month duration and was treated with antibiotics for a presumptive diagnosis of pnemonia after a negative bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL). Her […]
Abstract Number: 778
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: 78yo male on chronic anticoagulation (warfarin) for pmh significant of three previous venous thrombosis (DVT), hypertension, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia presented with one week of progressive right lower extremity erythema, edema, pain and tmax of 99F. On physical exam, he had tense, non-pitting edema and erythema from 10cm distal to the right knee to […]
Abstract Number: 814
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Introduction: Mixed Cryoglobulinemia (MC) is a rare subtype of the Cryoglobulinemia disorders which are caused by precipitation of immune complexes in the serum at cold temperature. MC involves more than one immunoglobulin component, i.e. IgM, rheumatoid factor (RF) and can be classified further as Type II or III. MC has associations with both […]
Abstract Number: 819
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 36- year-old female with asthma presented with worsening anasarca, malaise, headache, and subjective cognitive decline over three weeks. She had been to numerous hospitals and clinics for her symptoms. Despite various treatments, including Ciprofloxacin for presumed UTI, her symptoms continued to progress. A urinalysis at an outside hospital showed 4+ protein. On […]
Abstract Number: 872
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 50-year-old male with a past medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus presented with gangrene of his left foot. The foot was erythematous with pustular eruptions. His symptoms included fevers, chills, and the inability to move his fourth and fifth digits. He was afebrile, with a leukocytosis of 19.6, erythrocyte sedimentation rate […]