Meeting
Abstract Number: 50
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 17 y.o. female with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) presented with several weeks of worsening migratory polyarthralgia, as well as sporadic fevers, night sweats, and chills. Prednisone was begun 3 weeks prior for a presumed SLE flare, given elevated anti double-stranded DNA (anti-dsDNA) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and hematuria, but provided no […]
Abstract Number: 519
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 30-year-old woman was presented with two days progressive swelling and pain of her right hand after blunt trauma. The pain was associated with paresthesia of the right thumb and fever. There was no associated vaginal discharge, joint pain, sore throat or skin rash. Past medical history was significant for uncontrolled diabetes. The […]
Abstract Number: 700
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 24-year-old male with past medical history of sickle cell trait, bicytopenia (with a negative outpatient hematology and oncology workup) and diagnosed acute rheumatic fever 7 months earlier (on prophylactic penicillin BID) presents to the emergency department with 3 weeks of fevers, night sweats, migratory arthralgias and painful subcutaneous nodules involving primarily the […]
Abstract Number: J46
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: INTRODUCTION: Disseminated gonococcal infection presents as either purulent monoarticular arthritis or as tenosynovitis, migratory polyarthralgia and vesiculopustular rash in young sexually active adults. We present an unusual case of disseminated gonococcal infection presenting as petechial rash, tenosynovitis and polyarthralgia with hypocomplementemia in a middle woman.CASE PRESENTATION: 46 years old woman medical history of […]