Meeting
Abstract Number: 449
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 30-year-old male with type two diabetes mellitus and morbid obesity presented with one month of generalized weakness, fatigue and fever. This was his third hospitalization with these same symptoms; no definitive diagnosis was identified the previous two. He also complained of headache, a dry cough, and upper abdominal pain. Pertinent exam findings […]
Abstract Number: 916
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 41 y.o male with no past medical history presented with shortness of breath at rest. On presentation, he was febrile, tachycardic to 130’s/min and tachypneic to 32 breaths/min and saturating at 99% on room air. On auscultation, he had absent left-sided breath sounds. Chest X-ray demonstrated opacification of left hemithorax and CT chest […]