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Abstract Number: 680
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 65-year-old male presented with a chief complaint of dyspnea beginning 3 months ago. Additionally, he endorsed 15-pound weight loss, fatigue, and decreased appetite during this time. Members of his family noticed yellowing in his eyes. He had no known past medical history. He described his diet as balanced, consisting of meat, eggs, […]
Abstract Number: 689
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: 58 year old African-American female child-care worker with history of GERD presented with symptomatic anemia. She was in her usual state of health until ten days prior to presentation, when she had several days of GI illness consisting of abdominal pain and diarrhea. Her symptoms self-resolved, only with residual mild epigastric abdominal pain. […]
Abstract Number: 697
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 67 year old African American man with extensive stage small cell neuroendocrine lung cancer presented to the ED with one month of shortness of breath. On exam, he was in mild distress requiring 2L nasal cannula (NC). RR 23-37. CXR revealed a large right pleural effusion. A thoracentesis confirmed the effusion to […]
Abstract Number: 719
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: Case Presentation: This is a 3 year old male who recently returned from two months traveling in Liberia. In Liberia, he contracted malaria and was treated with two days of IV antimalarial treatment (thought to be artesunate) followed by three days of oral artemether-lumefantrine with improvement in symptoms. Ten days after completing treatment, […]
Abstract Number: 724
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: A 42-year-old Vietnamese-American gentleman presented to the Emergency Department with generalized fatigue and intermittent dark urine for 1 week and fever, chills, vomiting and loose black stools for 1 day. He denied any rash, joint pain, strenuous exercise, recent travel or trauma, new medications or supplements and tick or mosquito bites. There was […]
Abstract Number: 734
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 64-year-old Middle-Eastern man with a history of rheumatic heart disease status post mechanical mitral Starr-Edwards ball-in-cage valve (in 1968), atrial flutter on coumadin and prior ischemic stroke with residual blindness presented with 4 days of “bloody” urine. Physical exam was significant for scleral icterus, an unchanged holosystolic murmur, and the observation of […]
Abstract Number: 778
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: Few spider bites are medically significant. A 24-year-old African American woman presented with malaise, fever, nausea, and myalgias. She reported a sharp pain on her lower back the night prior that at first felt like burning before progressing to pain. Her initial vitals were T 101, HR 120, BP 141/117. Physical exam revealed […]
Abstract Number: 835
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: A 21-year-old man presented with two weeks of progressive dyspnea. He denied chest pain, lower extremity edema, orthopnea, melena, hematochezia, hemoptysis, cough, or fever. He had a previous presentation with similar symptoms of unknown etiology a few weeks before treated with steroids, blood transfusions, and antibiotics with improvement in symptoms. He was on […]
Abstract Number: 852
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: Hepatitis B is a viral infection that attacks the liver and can cause both acute and chronic disease. The WHO estimates 1.5 million new infections each year. Most people remain asymptomatic. However, some people have acute illness that lasts several weeks, which can be complicated by acute liver failure. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency […]
Abstract Number: 999
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: 81 year-old man with a history of atrial fibrillation on Warfarin and bioprosthetic aortic and mitral valves presented with dark urine and shortness of breath. He described progressive shortness of breath and reduced exercise tolerance, unable to walk upstairs to his apartment. His urine had become “the color of eggplant”. On exam, he […]