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Search Results for Hemolytic
Abstract Number: 27
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: This is a 4-year-old previously healthy girl, fully immunized with the exception of COVID-19 immunizations, who was hospitalized after presenting with fevers and fatigue for one week followed by gross hematuria. At the outset of her fevers, she tested negative for COVID-19 using a home antigen test. 4 days prior to admission, she [...]
Abstract Number: 361
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 51-year-old African American Female with PMHx of sickle cell trait, vitiligo (developed 5 years ago), T2DM, HTN, unspecified seizure disorder who presented with altered mental status and found to have severe pancytopenia. She presented hemodynamically stable with a physical exam notable for: pale conjunctiva and diffuse skin hypopigmentation consistent with vitiligo. Medications: [...]
Abstract Number: 428
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Case Presentation: A 73 year-old female presented with significant lethargy and orthostasis with progressive generalized weakness over one week. The patient related that she had experienced increasing fatigue over one year, but that it had acutely worsened in the last two weeks. Upon admission, her vital signs were blood pressure 114/47 mm Hg, heart rate [...]
Abstract Number: 429
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: An 80-year-old man with a past medical history of hypertension, benign prostatic hyperplasia, and hypothyroidism, presented to the emergency department due to a sudden loss of consciousness. The episode lasted a few minutes and was not associated with trauma, prodrome, seizure, or postictal confusion. Patient had recently been prescribed phenazopyridine for a suspected [...]
Abstract Number: 443
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Case Presentation: A 30 yo female without significant medical history presented to hospital complaining of facial swelling and dyspnea on exertion of 3 days duration. She described increasing fatigue, nausea and throat discomfort but denied diarrhea, cough, sputum production, fever, chills, rigors, sweats or abdominal pain. The patient had attributed her symptoms to contact with [...]
Abstract Number: 452
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: A 67 year-old woman presented with acute cough, fever, and hypoxia. SARS-CoV2 testing was positive, and she was treated with dexamethasone and remdesivir. Over the next two days, her serum creatinine increased from 0.6 to 3.0 mg/dL, platelet count decreased from 281 to 48 k/L, and hemoglobin decreased from 13.1 to 11.3 g/dL. [...]
Abstract Number: 467
SHM Converge 2024
Case Presentation: A 24-year-old Caucasian female with a family history of multiple autoimmune disorders presented with 3 weeks of bruising, petechiae, fatigue, and outside labs that revealed significant anemia and thrombocytopenia. Admission workup showed Hgb 7.6, platelets (PLT) < 3,000, and elevated MCV. Further labs showed elevated LDH, indirect bilirubinemia, haptoglobin< 10, and positive DAT [...]
Abstract Number: 472
SHM Converge 2023
Case Presentation: A 65-year-old woman with a history of early-stage breast cancer—was treated six years prior. She was subsequently admitted multiple times over the following years for pancytopenia, which was thought to be multifactorial—due to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and auto-immune hemolytic anemia (AIHA). Therefore, she received a supportive blood transfusion, intravenous immunoglobulins, and rituximab for suspected [...]
Abstract Number: 475
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Case Presentation: An 84 year old female with a past medical history significant for systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) presented to the emergency department with fatigue and dizziness. She had recently been admitted to the same hospital with acute kidney injury secondary to lupus nephritis. During that admission, she was started on high dose prednisone, a [...]
Abstract Number: 482
SHM Converge 2021
Case Presentation: This is an 84-year old Caucasian man with a past medical history of hypercholesterinemia who developed dry cough, mild shortness of breath, generalized weakness, and fever 13 days prior to the presentation. Three days after onset, he was tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 virus. His shortness of breath continued to worsen, and the patient [...]