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Search Results for HERPES ZOSTER
Abstract Number: P1
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A healthy 3-year-old boy presented with 5 days of a scaly and crusting rash on the left side of his face that began as a few bumps on his left forehead (Image 1). He had no history of chickenpox, is up to date on immunizations including varicella, and has no family history of […]
Abstract Number: 501
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 70-year-old gentleman with past medical history significant for chronic hypoxic and hypercapneic respiratory failure from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (FEV1 of 0.76 liters, 22% of predicted), hyperlipidemia, and hypertension presented with worsening exertional shortness of breath of four days duration. He also had dry cough. He denied fever, chills, chest pain, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea or […]
Abstract Number: 516
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 60-year-old woman with past medical history of Systemic Lupus Erythematous (SLE) on daily mycophenolate mofetil and hydroxychloroquine, Antiphospholipid Syndrome on warfarin, history of aneurysm s/p clipping and diabetes presented to an urgent care clinic due to severe headache and dizziness. During examination, she was noted to have hesitancy with neck flexion, prompting […]
Abstract Number: 522
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: 78 year old Asian female with a history of diabetes mellitus type II, hypertension, and recently diagnosed colon cancer presented with severe left ear pain and vesicular rash associated with left sided hearing loss and left facial paralysis. She endorsed decreased taste sensation as well as poor appetite resulting in twenty pounds of […]
Abstract Number: 537
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 58-year-old Spanish-speaking, uninsured man presents to primary care for a rash and is diagnosed with poison ivy and treated with prednisone. He eventually presents to the emergency department with ulcerative, crusting lesions of his right nasal ala, eyelid, scalp, philtrum, and lips. The lesions overlay a desquamative rash that covers his right […]
Abstract Number: 654
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 57 years old female with insignificant past medical history presented to emergency department for right sided chest and back pain for one week that was associated with skin lesions under right breast and adjoining area on the back consistent with herpes zoster rash. She also reported epigastric pain, nausea and vomiting. She […]
Abstract Number: 704
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 52-year-old man with HIV on HAART (CD4 count of 644) and recently treated early latent syphilis, was admitted for abdominal pain and hematochezia of 2 days duration. On exam, he had normal vital signs and diffuse tenderness to palpation but no rigidity or guarding. Labs were notable for hemoglobin drop to 11 […]
Abstract Number: 816
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 37-year-old woman with no significant medical history initially presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with an itchy rash on her left thigh that developed over a week. The only preceding event was visiting a water park with her children two weeks prior. She denied other exposures, traumas, recent travel, or sick contacts. […]
Abstract Number: E27
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: An 85-year-old female with a history of non-Hodgkin’s B-cell lymphoma on Ibrutinib is brought into the emergency department (ED) by ambulance for generalized, progressive weakness and recurrent falls. She was recently diagnosed with herpes zoster 2 weeks prior, on her right upper extremity and denies being started on any medication. She complained of […]
Abstract Number: G36
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 31-year-old man with rheumatoid arthritis (on adalimumab, methotrexate, and prednisone) presented with a 3-day history of fatigue, severe asymmetrical weakness of the lower extremities (left > right), and painful vesicular rash spanning multiple dermatomes in the left > right lower extremities (Image 1). There was no evidence of myelopathy or meningismus on […]