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Abstract Number: 387
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 50 year old male with no past medical history presented with severe chest pain that progressively worsened over 2 days. His chest pain was described as left sided, non-radiating, and constant. He reported sore throat, headaches, and subjective fevers for the past 5 days. The patient also reported multiple family members received […]
Abstract Number: 577
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A previously healthy 19-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with one week of abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea, and fever. Two weeks prior, she reported a non-specific flu-like illness. On admission, she was febrile, tachycardic, and hypotensive. She had a toxic appearance and a firm, diffusely tender abdomen. She had no oropharyngeal, pulmonary, […]
Abstract Number: 663
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 34-year-old male without significant past medical history presented with fevers, progressive purpuric rash that started in the ankles and spread in a centrifugal distribution, joint stiffness, as well as a rapidly progressive right-sided neck mass. Two weeks prior to presentation he had experienced sore throat and subjective fevers which self-resolved. One week […]
Abstract Number: 685
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 42-year-old female presented with two days of fever, dysuria, and hematuria, associated with upper and lower back pain, body aches, and anorexia. She had no significant past medical history and no recent surgical procedures. She denied tobacco, alcohol, and intravenous drug use. The exam was significant for suprapubic pain and left costovertebral […]
Abstract Number: 726
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: An 86-year-old female with well-compensated cirrhosis due to primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) visited her PMD complaining of a fever of 102.2, nasal congestion, and sore throat that had started 2 days prior and was followed by a rapidly spreading malar rash that developed on the day she presented. The rash started with tiny […]
Abstract Number: 876
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 7 year-old with hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia (ED) and recurrent sinusitis was admitted with diplopia, headaches, and fevers. In the preceding 2 months, he had multiple episodes of fever, nasal impetigo, and positive group A strep (GAS) throat swabs without pharyngitis. He was treated twice with azithromycin due to allergies to amoxicillin, cephalosporins, […]
Abstract Number: K44
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 24-year-old female with unremarkable past medical history, presented to urgent care for two days of tachycardia, chest tightness, sore throat, and fever. She was found to be in supraventricular tachycardia with a heart rate (HR) of 180 bpm. Patient received adenosine 6mg and then 12mg with improvement of HR to 140 bpm. […]